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The person who ships wins

Adam DeJans Jr. recommends: – Build the smallest thing that actually solves the problem– Get it in front of people fast– Fix what actually matters, not what only you notice– Don’t wait for perfect alignment; ship something that forces alignment– … Continue reading

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Yann LeCun is leaving Meta

“Yann LeCun is leaving Meta. And he thinks LLMs are a dead end.One of the founding fathers of modern AI is quietly preparing his next move.And the reason he is leaving might reshape the entire industry.” Link More

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Challenge Nov-2025 “Advanced Website Design”

This challenge is an advanced version of last month’s Challenge Oct-2025, when a freelance developer needs to design a website with as many features as possible, but also maximizing the total value of the selected features. Now you have several additional … Continue reading

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“It’s the autonomy, stupid!”

This is the title of Yefim Natis‘s post about agentic computing. “Agents can be the building blocks for composable solutions, and orchestration agents may take on the role of a composer. Autonomy of a software component is not new. The … Continue reading

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IBM OPL CPLEX – Free Community Edition

Did you know that IBM provides a FREE ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio for individual users? You can register to download it using the link. The no-cost edition is restricted to problems up to 1,000 variables and 1,000 constraints. Flexibility to … Continue reading

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Never Ignore Uncertainty

Several important points made by Dr. Meinolf Sellmann:

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Where business meets math

Adam DeJans Jr. just posted an interesting comment: “My favorite optimization problems are the ones everyone assumes are already solved. The ones that SOUND simple but never really are. That’s where the real fun begins. I love working in the … Continue reading

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Maximizing Minimum Profit while Minimizing Maximum Regret

Dr. Meinolf Sellman shared a decision problem that deals with planning crop growth without knowing the weather. His solution is based on the proprietary multi-objective optimization that helps to find a rational compromise between maximizing the minimum profit and minimizing … Continue reading

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Separating thinking from doing

Vincent Lextrait’s reaction to “vibe coding”: This is coming from the illusion that software is like manufacturing, separating thinking from doing. It is completely missing the point that software developers are not blue collar workers executing somebody else’s vision. They … Continue reading

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Cognitive AI vs Statistical AI

Peter Voss was our presenter at DecisionCAMP-2025 in September. You may watch his presentation. Read his latest article, “Why Cognitive AI, and not LLMs, will get us to AGI”. Link

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