Twenty Questions is Too Many That’s why binary search is one of my favorite things. It’s a tool-slash-algorithm that I use multiple times per day, and it’s what underlies ADCs.

You might not think that it would be possible to have a favorite optimization algorithm, but I do. And if you’re well-versed in the mathematical art of hill climbing, you might be surprised that ...

We give a branch-and-cut algorithm for solving linear programs (LPs) with continuous separable piecewise-linear cost functions (PLFs). Models for PLFs use continuous variables in special-ordered sets ...