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let's go to something that when i found out recently so i i've known you've done a million things but one of the things i wasn't aware of that you had a role in ample and i before you interrupt me by minimizing your role in it which is for minimizing functions yeah minimizing functions right exactly um i i can just say that the elegance and abstraction power of ample is incredible when when i first came to it about 10 years ago or so uh can you describe what is the ample language sure so ample is a language for mathematical programming uh technical term uh think of it as linear programming that is setting up systems of linear equations that are of some sort of system of constraints so that you have a bunch of things that have to be less than this greater than that or whatever and you're trying to find a set of values for some decision variables that will maximize or minimize some objective function so it's a way of solving a particular kind of optimization problem a very formal sort of