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Introducing Minimax: an LP solver for iPhone 15 Dec 2012 | 10:32 am
Introducing Minimax: a linear program (LP) and mixed-integer linear program (MILP) solver for the iPhone. I created Minimax for a few reasons. There are a few LP solvers already available on iOS, but...
Some OR-Exchange stats 20 Sep 2012 | 12:54 pm
OR-Exchange is a question-and-answer site for Operations Research, along the same lines as Stack Overflow for programming, but smaller and less strict. If you don’t know what Operations Research is, t...
I am a statistician and I buy lottery tickets 6 May 2012 | 08:59 pm
When my friends hear me say that I’m buying a lottery ticket for a big draw I often get the comment, “but aren’t you a statistician?”. The implication is that only people who are ignorant of probabili...
What should a modern research publishing platform look like? 19 Aug 2011 | 03:19 pm
After recently complaining about the state of academic publishing, I started thinking about what could replace it. Here are my thoughts on features such a service would have. In my previous blog post...
Academic publishing 2.0 19 Aug 2011 | 12:46 pm
An interesting conversation on Google+, started by Vincent Knight, has prompted me to think about the academic review process, and the journal industry in general, and I’ve come to the conclusion that...
Let's learn from owls and disrupt the postal service 29 Jun 2011 | 04:06 pm
I wasn’t going to write an entry for the INFORMS June OR blog challenge: “OR for muggles” because I couldn’t think of anything relevant to say, despite having watched all seven of the Harry Potter mov...
Social content discovery is broken but Instapaper could fix it 14 Jun 2011 | 08:43 pm
Instapaper is a web service that allows you to save articles you find on the web for reading later. It stores these in a list maintained on their servers, and allows you to access it from your browser...
