{"id":111,"date":"2006-11-04T06:35:17","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T10:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2006-11-04T06:35:17","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T10:35:17","slug":"or-in-numb3rs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/11\/04\/or-in-numb3rs\/","title":{"rendered":"OR in Numb3rs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/primetime\/numb3rs\/\">Numb3rs<\/a> tonight had a plotline involving causing blackouts by selectively destroying substations.  At one point, the <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/trick\/numb3rs1.jpg\" \/>head nerd looks<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/trick\/numb3rs2.jpg\" \/> at a pad of paper and says &#8220;These are Dantzig-Wolfe Decompositions; network interdiction strategies.  That&#8217;s pretty high-end stuff.&#8221;  A closeup of the pad reveals notes that look a lot like the things lots of us in OR do (albeit I use Dantzig-Wolfe for things like sports schedules).  The episode is entitled &#8220;Blackout&#8221; and the scene occurs about half-way through  (1:25 into part 3 of the innertube version).  Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=12\">Gary Lorden<\/a> for the shout-out to OR!  And thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/infohost.nmt.edu\/~borchers\/\">Brian Borchers<\/a> for emailing me about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numb3rs tonight had a plotline involving causing blackouts by selectively destroying substations. At one point, the head nerd looks at a pad of paper and says &#8220;These are Dantzig-Wolfe Decompositions; network interdiction strategies. That&#8217;s pretty high-end stuff.&#8221; A closeup of the pad reveals notes that look a lot like the things lots of us in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/11\/04\/or-in-numb3rs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OR in Numb3rs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-or-in-the-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}