Re:How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# an...
by sdsdsdsdsds on Monday December 04, 2017 @03:22PM
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Its a little more complex than that. Batteries must be shipped seperately, as per regulations. You are assuming everything shipped form same warehouse.
Source. Worked on this problem for some years.
Re:How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# an...
by vonmoltke on Monday December 04, 2017 @05:59PM
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I'm not aware of, and could not find, any such regulations that apply to non-lithium dry cell batteries.
Re:How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# an...
by djchen on Monday December 04, 2017 @01:54PM
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I don't know if this is still the case but Jet doesn't handle fulfillment for all of the items on their store. I've bought stuff on Jet that were shipped from over e-commerce web sites.
Re:How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# an...
by thomastjeffery on Monday December 04, 2017 @03:49PM
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Amazon does the same thing, but since it is primarily a fulfillment company, it does end up doing most of that itself.
Re:How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# an...
by brianwawok on Monday December 04, 2017 @03:01PM
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Correct, many third party sellers ship things on Jet (just like on Amazon). Unlike Amazon, it is less clear who is shipping a given item.
Re:How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# an...
by visarga on Monday December 04, 2017 @04:35PM
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Have you considered that F# CUDA and the delivery situation are not causally related? Maybe a good optimization system is programmed with bad constraints.
Re:How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# an...
by kw71 on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @02:19PM
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Wow the prices are incredible. At walmart grocery they list 500 swabs for $2. In the store, zinc batteries are $1 for four. However on the site they aren't even shown and want you to buy alkalines for $3. But zinc batteries are 24 for $0 at harbor freight with their regular coupon.
Walmart's online orders come from a million places similar to your Jet experience. I used it all the time, when the online prices were identical to the in-store prices. Spend $6 more to get free shipping! Ok, I'll take 50 pounds of cat litter, hope the UPS finance dept thanks you. I wonder why they put a stop to this :(
This is what I bought:
-> $4.22 Q-tips Cotton Swabs 500 ct -> $16.32 iPhone 5/5s, iPhone SE, iPod Touch 5th/6th Gen Adidas Nylon Armband Case - Sports armband for adidas miCoach training system -> $6.95 iBungee Stretch Laces (26-Inch, Black Laces with Black Race Lock) -> $4.79 4 Philips AA Zinc Chloride Double A Batteries R6 1.5V Super Heavy Duty Battery -> $8.10 Monoprice Apple MFi Certified Lightning to USB Charge & Sync Cable, 3ft White -> $89.96 ASICS Men's GEL-Kayano 23 Running Shoes T646N
The order for the phone arm-band was cancelled and everything else shipped _separately_ - I Literally got 5 different packages in the mail - over a week with different items.
Had I gone with Amazon, I would have received - one, maybe two packages with everything. Infact, Jet probably lost money on most of the items they shipped to me.
Us techies sometimes tend to forget the real world (in this case customer experience) while playing with cool technology.
To me, an old fashioned optimizer running on a 15 year old AMD Opteron that delivers the appropriate real-world result is worth more than that F# and CUDA thing that seems to have over-optimized the problem to create a bad customer experience (getting 5 packages in a haphazard way).