{"id":178,"date":"2007-09-02T15:05:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T19:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2007-09-02T15:05:06","modified_gmt":"2007-09-02T19:05:06","slug":"operations-research-and-tattoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/02\/operations-research-and-tattoos\/","title":{"rendered":"Operations Research and Tattoos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being in New Zealand, I am looking for the one big memento of the year. And naturally tattoos come to mind. Here, tattoos are not (necessarily) a sign of a an evening with too much drink, but are a an integral part of the Maori culture, and have been adopted by pakeha (those of European descent: New Zealand almost uniquely takes an indigenous term as a non-pejorative term for the later arriving group) as a sign of national pride. Of course, not just any tattoo would work. It would have to reflect my core values, my aspirations, the real<\/em> me. So it would have to be operations research oriented. Now if I were a queueing person, I could just get Little’s Law (L= l w) (the little l being lambda), but I am not. I suppose I could get a two dimensional polytope with some objective lines put in<\/a>. If I was more active in COIN-OR,<\/a> their logo<\/a> would look pretty nice, and I think my friend Robin would probably approve (she probably has one already!). Or with a skilled enough artist, perhaps one of Bob Bosch’s wonderful TSP arts<\/a>: perhaps George Dantzig<\/a> as TSP covering my back. But none of this feels right.<\/p>\n

There is inspiration (some of it quite scary) from the rest of science in this wonderful post<\/a> from the Loom. But there is also a horror story or two about<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being in New Zealand, I am looking for the one big memento of the year. And naturally tattoos come to mind. Here, tattoos are not (necessarily) a sign of a an evening with too much drink, but are a an integral part of the Maori culture, and have been adopted by pakeha (those of European … Continue reading “Operations Research and Tattoos”<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","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=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}