Larry Snyder
@larrysnyder.bsky.social
ISE and Deputy Provost for Faculty Affairs @LehighU. Teach Algs and Social Justice class. Research on applied OR. Author of Stockpyl Python package for inventory mgmt. Co-author of Fundamentals of Supply Chain Theory. Crossword enthusiast and constructor.
Stockpyl v1.0.2 is out! A few new EOQ-related functions, a bug fix or two, and a change in license from GPLv3 to MIT. pypi.org/project/stoc...
stockpyl
A Python package for inventory optimization and simulation
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If you're looking for a break from the news, try my crossword puzzle in today's NYT! It was a lot of fun to construct and I hope you find it fun (and pretty easy) to solve! #nytxw www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...
Play The New York Times Crossword
Keep your mind sharp by making The Crossword part of your daily routine.
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I wrote today’s @usatoday.com crossword puzzle. It’s free to play (today) and on the easy side. Enjoy! puzzles.usatoday.com
Daily Crossword Puzzles | USA TODAY
Daily online crossword puzzles brought to you by USA TODAY. Start with your first free puzzle today and challenge yourself with a new crossword daily!
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Lately I've been thinking a lot about this visualization of wealth inequality. (@kanarinka.bsky.social and @laurenfklein.bsky.social might call it a "visceralization".) It's a few years old but is still so effective. eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...
Wealth, shown to scale
Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.
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Excited to discuss our Lehigh U Algorithms and Social Justice course w/Prof Suzanne Edwards at Lafayette Coll this Weds. And humbled to help kick off a series of talks on AI for inclusion, diversity, equity, and access, with later speakers like @poetofcode.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social.
Congrats to former #Lehigh #ISE PhD grad Zümbül Atan on becoming the new chair of the Operations, Planning, Accounting and Control (OPAC) research group at Eindhoven U of Technology! www.tue.nl/en/news-and-...
New leadership at OPAC group: Zümbül Atan succeeds Ivo Adan
Zümbül Atan succeeds Ivo Adan as chair of the OPAC group
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I said at a workshop at Lehigh today that a few yrs ago, a ChatGPT/DALL-E prompt like "generate an image of 4 doctors" would give an image of 4 white male drs, whereas now the drs would be more diverse--but that's only bc of superficial guardrails--the underlying data and model are still biased.