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Optimization
Objectives, constraints, and trade-offs explained through practical decision problems.
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What is optimization?
Even planning dinner with friends is an optimization problem
Optimization explained through a New York dinner plan: decision variables, objective functions, constraints, and why choosing one restaurant needs a binary decision.
- 02
What is Pareto optimization?
When no restaurant is perfect for everyone
An intuitive introduction to Pareto dominance, Pareto-optimal solutions, and the Pareto frontier through a New York dinner decision.
- 03
What is multi-objective optimization?
Real decisions rarely have one goal
When cost, carbon, recycled content, and supply reliability collide, how do you decide? An EV battery procurement case I worked through.