Linear Digressions
Linear Digressions
Ben Jaffe and Katie Malone
Optimization Problems
17 minutes Posted Aug 21, 2016 at 5:25 pm.
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If modeling is about predicting the unknown, optimization tries to answer the question of what to do, what decision to make, to get the best results out of a given situation. Sometimes that's straightforward, but sometimes... not so much. What makes an optimization problem easy or hard, and what are some of the methods for finding optimal solutions to problems? Glad you asked! May we recommend our latest podcast episode to you?