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I've been looking to get my feet wet with SAT and/or SMT solvers; can anyone recommend any short courses that I could start with to get a practical feel where where & how to use them? Python would be preferred.

Maybe this https://www.coursera.org/learn/automated-reasoning-sat would be a good start?

Ideally I would like to be able to take predicted outputs from ML plus business requirements to solve allocation problems; and more pie in the sky I would like to know enough to get inspiration for how to link a neural network with a sat solver, such as perhaps replacing or augmenting beam search in sequence decoding tasks.

Well done! I'm taking a course on SAT solvers [1], but it uses some lisp format and lets you input from a richer language (e.g. distinct, if-then-else, plus integers rather than just booleans), so I had to look up the conjunctive normal format in your app. The readme for this repo [2] sent me here [3]. Pretty simple format.

I love how fast your app is!

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/automated-reasoning-sat/

[2] https://github.com/msoos/cryptominisat

[3] http://www.satcompetition.org/2009/format-benchmarks2009.htm...

Which course have you got in mind, [1] given by Hans Zantema?

[1] Automated Reasoning: satisfiability, https://www.coursera.org/learn/automated-reasoning-sat