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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by sumitgt on Monday October 03, 2016 @04:18PM (#12630956)
ALso, they are literally trying to solve a problem similar to the travelling salesman problem when you consider Uber Pool scheduling, Uber Eats, etc.
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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by pjlegato on Monday October 03, 2016 @07:03PM (#12632086)
True, but they don't have to find the optimal solution, or even anything close to it. They just have to find a solution that's slightly better than the next-best solution, which in most cases is very far from optimal.
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