From lesson-planning to long-haul trucking, good schedules make the world run—literally. In this episode, BABL AI CEO Dr. Shea Brown sits down with Leon Ingelse, writer-researcher at Croatian optimization studio Dots & Lines, to unpack the hidden math, ethics, and human stories behind modern scheduling and routing.
🔑 What we cover
Hard vs. soft constraints – why “can’t” and “prefer not to” need different math
Digital twins – building a virtual copy of a business before you touch the real one
Fairness & “karma” scheduling – balancing preferences over weeks, months, years
Transparency & compliance – explaining a timetable (and the laws baked into it)
Human-in-the-loop vs. full automation – when you still want a person pressing “publish”
Optimization ≠ LLMs – where stochastic AI falls short and formal models shine
The future of Dots & Lines and why bespoke solutions often beat off-the-shelf productsCheck out the babl.ai website for more stuff on AI Governance and
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