Monthly Archives: August 2025

Constraint Modeling Challenge

The annual MiniZinc Challenge celebrates the state of the art in constraint modelling and solving. Across the different problems, this year’s result once again highlighted the diversity of approaches, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in modelling and solving complex problems. Here are … Continue reading

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Not everything needs reinvention

“Sometimes innovation is just panic dressed as strategy.Sometimes marketing is just noise to distract from a lack of meaning.Sometimes chasing growth, valuations, market share etc. can make you forget why you started in the first place.” https://lnkd.in/eDXuiNvS

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If you want to build real-world decision intelligence…

Adam DeJans Jr. just posted on LinkedIn practical advice on how to build real-world decision intelligence: Most “decision intelligence” projects fail because they skip one thing: Engineering. A model is not a system. A dashboard is not a decision. If … Continue reading

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Challenge Aug-2025 “Grid Covering”

This month, we offered our readers to ponder a problem that was among the most complex on the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad. This problem did stump DeepMind and OpenAI’s models, but it wasn’t just problematic for AI. Of the 630 student … Continue reading

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Measuring AI Impact on Experienced Developers

“Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower.” Link

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