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Operations Research is totally unsexy. It still works better than ever before; I'm shipping a work project based on stochastic programming pretty soon. But we'l
by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Operations Research is totally unsexy. It still works better than ever before; I'm shipping a work project based on stochastic programming pretty soon. But we'll probably call it "AI" in marketing materials.
- SixSigma 10y agoThis. I work in OR, specifically Computational Logistics. There is plenty of room for operational improvement in all industry, all the time. Articles like this paint us as big and stupid because that's how the "disruption" people see all industry. Often it is not the optimization that is lacking but the will of disparate companies to co-operate. An example - the Port of Rotterdam barge system is horribly inefficient for the barge operators because the individual shippers see minor gains. The challenge is getting the shippers to agree and co-operate, not to machine learn the best routing for the barges.