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Opt-Models: Intro to Optimization Programming Using LEGOs (opt-models.org)
60 points by skadamat on April 7, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments


This is very cool. Excited to see how this evolves!


Thank you Kyle! Dropping the third video today, appreciate your interest and all suggestions on how to make this thing better.


Does the actually have anything to do with Lego or it’s just using a Lego theme for the images?


@pimlottc, thank you for the question, and yes: this series is deeply to do with the LEGO part and set universe. The optimization model's function is "Find the maximum number of sets completable with a user’s part inventory" and the data involved in the search is : SETS, THEMES, PARTS, COLORS, MATERIALS, (PART)CATEGORIES, PART-RELATIONSHIPS, etc.

P.S. sorry to be so late to reply here folks! Martin Laskowski (the dude making the videos).


From what I can tell it's using online community Lego databases for an example application to be optimized.


@bobajeff, you are right on.


Martin seems to be using the Rebrickable database of LEGO's as a motivating example throughout this optimization series: https://rebrickable.com/downloads/





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