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On the other hand they cleared an open source benchmark by a long way, for which people have had plenty of time to apply existing approaches, right?

This is just a PR article, it's hard to say what they did or didn't try before arriving at this solution.

Because frankly nobody gives a sh about throwing resources and finding just better (not globally optimal) solutions to synthetic benchmarks.

Academics care about proving optimality. Businesses care about their own specific use case and not synthetic benchmarks.

Okay, well, thanks for your thoughts.

> Because frankly nobody gives a sh about throwing resources and finding just better (not globally optimal) solutions to synthetic benchmarks.

This does not align with my experience of people working in OR.