Theo Diamandis
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Theo Diamandis
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optimizing stuff, mostly in julia

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Prices are a communication system that links supply and demand. Politics are irrelevant.
February 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Kantorovich, of course, couldn't call these prices (the USSR had gulags), but these ideas continued to appear in economic planning problems.
February 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Kantorovich developed linear programming in the 1930's to centrally plan the Soviet economy. His solution method relied on dual variables ("resolving multipliers"), which measure the sensitivity of each constraint.
February 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Do Marxists ultimately invent surge pricing?

Kantorovich's efforts to plan an economy quickly led him to dynamic pricing for resource allocation.

theodiamandis.com/blog/2025/pr...
February 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Everything else comes from more abundant energy. (graph from Ian Morris' The Measure of Civilization)
December 5, 2024 at 6:31 PM