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I built a web interface for this type of nurse scheduling optimization. Mine uses CPLEX instead of the CP-SAT solver but the Python set up is very similar. Here's the web interface…

Scott Alexander of Slatestarcodex provided some anecdotal evidence of this issue last year: > Last month I moved into a small cottage behind a big group house. The cottage is lovel…

WTA probably means winner-takes-all in this context.

I remember this Bret Victor piece from 2011 and I was thinking about it recently when Google announced Soli for the Pixel 4. https://www.cnet.com/news/project-soli-is-the-secret-st…

Why would you use Monica at a start-up or Fortune 500 company? I had assumed that Monica was purely for personal use. It never occurred to me that a start-up, much less a Fortune 5…

I've been using Monica for a couple of years now and I'm very happy with it for my personal network. It's a great tool to remind me who is connected to whom and what to ask about b…

It's ironic that Earth is running out of the second most abundant element in the universe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elem...

There was a similar post on HN about four months ago describing an air quality monitor with a slightly different stack: Build an Air Quality Monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana and Dock…

In 100 years will we wonder why recumbent bicycles took so long to catch on? MIT's David Gordon Wilson, the writer of the excellent book Bicycling Science, had been advocating for …

This article was published around 1999. Russel Ackoff mentions he is 80 in the article and he died in 2009 at the age of 90. The Systems Thinker started in the 1980s and discontinu…

Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex) provided a meta-study and also described how reducing CO2 in his cottage reduced headaches, fatigue, and poor sleep: https://slatestarcodex.com/201…

The elderly are generally more susceptible to internet fraud. Last summer the New Yorker had this story about how an 85 year old was scammed out of her life savings: My Mother and …