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This is inline with the common theme these days, the company that wants to survive has to has to become a software company in some part. The other day, I saw Ga
by orsenthil 10y ago
This is inline with the common theme these days, the company that wants to survive has to has to become a software company in some part. The other day, I saw Gap Inc, publishing a report of using "Gurobi" linear programming software for optimizing online store prices.
Are there other consumer "goods" companies that have interesting open source stuff published?
- chrstphrhrt 10y agoWalmart Labs believe it or not: hapijs.com
- shas3 10y agoWalmart Labs is basically a Bay Area software/analytics start up- Kosmix that was acquired by Walmart. Hardly surprising they do this. On another note: a quirky thing I encountered on Twitter was Target hiring category theorists. https://twitter.com/sigfpe/status/734129734569709568 https://twitter.com/sigfpe/status/734129734569709568
- npkarnik 10y agoVery cool - I actually have a friend who works on that Target team. There are smart, talented, "modern" people everywhere. I wonder what the dinosaurs will look like in 10-20 years.
- gaius 10y agoPeople were applying computation to commercial logistics and manufacturing problems since the 1950s. Look up "operations research".