Finished experiments in optimization and agentic systems.
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05 publishedIt can't hallucinate. It scored a room nobody mentioned.
A bench for testing decision models on your own data, and the first thing I put through it: TypeSafe's Jev, reading live Google restaurant reviews at four hundredths of a cent apiece.
The optimizer said dispatch. The trader said no.
A battery arbitrage agent on public Alberta pool prices that records every operator override, asks why, and folds the answer back into the model as a constraint.
Drayage appointments nobody can keep
Rebuilding a container terminal appointment system as a scheduling problem, using published gate-turn-time data. The published slots were infeasible a third of the time.
Seven constraints nobody wrote down
An interview protocol for pulling tacit scheduling rules out of a human planner's head, tested against a GTFS vehicle-blocking model. Includes the questions that worked and the ones that didn't.
GTFS vehicle blocking on a consumer laptop in twelve seconds
Formulating bus schedule vehicle-blocking as a minimum cost flow problem using standard open GTFS transit feeds without paid proprietary solvers.
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