{"id":962,"date":"2009-11-12T12:49:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T16:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=962"},"modified":"2009-11-12T12:49:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T16:49:54","slug":"questions-and-answers-in-operations-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/12\/questions-and-answers-in-operations-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions and answers in operations research?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.postmaster.gr\/\">Yiorgos Adamoploulos <\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hakmem\">@hakmem<\/a> on twitter) pointed out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stackexchange.com\">StackExchange<\/a> as a software system\/social network system for questions on specialized topics.\u00a0 He wondered if we need one in operations research. It seems to me that the &#8220;web 0.1&#8221; version of this (Usenet groups) are <a href=\"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=630\">pretty well dead<\/a>:\u00a0 the spam has completely taken over comp.constraints and is pretty high on sci.op-research (no, we don&#8217;t need your stinking solution manuals, thanks).\u00a0 So where to go?\u00a0 I get some questions as comments on my blog posts:\u00a0 I try to respond to them before I delete them but that only gives one person&#8217;s views.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/or-exchange.stackexchange.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"OR-Exchange!\" src=\"http:\/\/or-exchange.stackexchange.com\/theme\/image\/theme.logo\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"46\" \/><\/a>Let&#8217;s find out if there is an interest.\u00a0 Have questions (or want to give answers) in operations research?\u00a0 Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/or-exchange.stackexchange.com\">OR Exchange!<\/a> No guarantees on how long this will be up:\u00a0 if there is no interest, down it goes.\u00a0 But let&#8217;s see!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably be fiddling with the format of the system over the next few days (I need better graphics!), but that shouldn&#8217;t affect the questions and answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yiorgos Adamoploulos (@hakmem on twitter) pointed out StackExchange as a software system\/social network system for questions on specialized topics.\u00a0 He wondered if we need one in operations research. It seems to me that the &#8220;web 0.1&#8221; version of this (Usenet groups) are pretty well dead:\u00a0 the spam has completely taken over comp.constraints and is pretty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/12\/questions-and-answers-in-operations-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Questions and answers in operations research?&#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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","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\/962","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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}