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Wellness Wednesday for March 15, 2023

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Need to come upto speed in operations research and optimization within a month. Im very strong in python and decent math skills. What do?

Landed an excellent job where I will working on the above, Feels surreal to go from eating shit to getting paid a sum where I wont really have to worry about much at all. I really dont want to bungle this. Im planning to put in 10-12 hour days, the money is worth it.

For optimization the most used textbooks is Nocedal's "Numerical Optimization", which proves most results. For operations research Hillier and Lieberman's "Introduction to Operations Research" is what you need, really big book that basically covers the whole field in moderate depth and can be used as a launching pad to search for more info, the math requirements are lower here than for Nocedal.

Good luck!