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Some days it’s hard to conceal my utter fatigue of nature-inspired metaheuristics.

Yes, genetic algorithms are useful.
No, that doesn’t grant you a license to turn every creature on God’s green earth into an optimization routine.
June 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Today, the daughters of Dr. Marguerite Frank wrote me that she passed away on Dec. 11 at the age of 97. I had written a post about her & Ailsa Land when they turned 93: annanagurney.blogspot.com/2021/03/cele... No obituary yet. Marguerite was a friend. I helped with a paper award in her honor. #orms
Celebrating Two Amazing Female Operations Researchers, Both 93 Years Old, for Their Contributions to Algorithms
Since this blogpost was published, sadly, Professor Ailsa Land passed away on May 16, 2021. Please refer to this obituary posted on the Lond...
annanagurney.blogspot.com
December 26, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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November 18, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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A paper a day keeps the FOMO away, episode 4.

Not so much a paper as a lifesaver. The “matrix cookbook” might be the only cookbook I open on a regular basis. If you’re doing linear algebra, you need this one, and guess what…

www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/ma...
www.math.uwaterloo.ca
November 16, 2024 at 6:37 PM