I took a class in grad school where MiniZinc was our go-to to solve many different problems and I had the same issue. I found that the handbook[1] was pretty helpful in modeling tricks and understanding the logic where I was used to CPLEX modeling style and Python OR-Tools.

[1] https://www.minizinc.org/doc-2.5.5/en/index.html

Could you elaborate?

I think GP means that it typically involves computationally intensive algorithms that then still give only an approximation.

We didn't use slack unfortunatly, we had Zoom meetings planned every day for 15 minutes and our manager would make us go round table to discuss our ongoing projects and challenges etc.. it was very interesting since our small team were all working on very different problems, we could all try to focus for 2 minutes to solve a problem all together as a sort of team blitz. Sometimes it worked marvels.

Joyeuse fêtes! From Montreal :) Very grateful this community exists.

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