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geoffreydesmet.bsky.social
PlanningAI expert, Timefold co-founder, OptaPlanner creator, complex scheduling and routing, Operations Research, Java, Python, Kotlin, open source, international speaker
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How I built an AI company to save my open source project On this day, 3 years ago, my world fell apart. It was a Thursday. I just finished my second meeting that morning, looked at my inbox and realized it was over. My life’s work was over. Read more: timefold.ai/blog/how-i-b...

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Allons-y! 🥖🍷🇫🇷 Looking forward to speaking at DevoxxFR for the first time. It's gonna be an #llm #ai and #java presentation on creating schedules together with my co-speaker @geoffreydesmet.bsky.social 😁 Looking forward to sharing that with you all. 😇

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

One of the most interesting feats of engineering recently was explained Saturday at #Fosdem for project Liliput for #Java OpenJDK: How to put 25 bits into 2 bits. How they are circumventing the trade-off between usability and memory usage. 🧵

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

The new overview of our REST API for Field Service Routing is online. Take a look: app.timefold.ai/models/field... It covers almost every constraint. From time windows, fairness and technician costs to real-time planning and many other #PlanningAI requirements. Just pick and choose what you need.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

A reddit user is asking about your experience with Timefold: www.reddit.com/r/optimizati... Reviews welcome!

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

How to handle Employee (un)availability in automated Shift Rostering. It's not as simple as it looks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyk7... #PlanningAI #ai #timefold

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

📰 New article by Kevin Nash, Jun Zhang Optimizing operational planning for sustainability: e-switch’s AI solution with Timefold and AWS #AWS #Alps #AWSInSwitzerlandAndAustria

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

The new Maven Central doesn't have download statistics any more it seems. Any other open source projects running into that problem? Is there a fix?

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

What does it mean for something to be Turing complete? I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post. samwho.dev/turing-machi...

submitted 68 days ago • 23 comments

New Video! 🎄 Helping Santa solve his Traveling Salesmen Problem and helping him find a better route with #java and #timefold. I live-code a simple example using #quarkus and #leafletjs for the visualization. 👨‍🏫 Catch it here and let me know what you think! 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYot...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

To everyone who's been in IT for a while: Which hype cycles have set your project(s) off course for a few months because management believed not doing it would disrupt the business? And how did it turn out?

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

For Open Source foundations like Apache snd Commonhaus to effectively work as a DMZ between multiple contributing companies, they need trademark control. But if only 1 company does all the contributing work, giving up trademark control is simply unacceptable... Catch22

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

The Operations Research Advent started earlier this week. (spoiler) Here are the solutions in Timefold in #java, #python and #kotlin: github.com/timefold-san...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Santa needs help with his routing and scheduling problem!

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Apache Maven 4.0.0-rc-1 just dropped! I’ve been running 4.0.0 betas for a while now and definitely loved it so far. Make sure to give the new features and major improvements a swing yourself: maven.apache.org/download.cgi If you run into anything make sure to reach out! #Java #Apache #Maven

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Timefold Solver at Milano Java User Group on 10th December, by Simon Tiffert. Free entrance. www.meetup.com/it-IT/edotec...

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

My first video for #Timefold is online now. 😊 You'll learn why scheduling employee shifts is more tricky than you might expect. Honestly it makes me dizzy again thinking about it 😅 More videos about how Timefold can do all this for you with an API: Soon! youtu.be/at-2ch6rlZo?...

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment