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   pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 06:10:49 JST pettter

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   • Jack Rusher

   @jack I believe that more recent advances in both hardware, software and theory has made linear programming significantly more tractable, to the point that I think @thardin claims that systems of hundreds of millions of goods are entirely possible to compute within reasonable resource constraints.

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     Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 06:10:50 JST Jack Rusher

     “To handle a problem with 12 or 13 billion variables would take about 30 billion seconds, or roughly a thousand years.

     Naturally, I have a reason for mentioning 12 million variables…”

     https://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimization-problem-solves-you/