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Oh god, as I read through it I kind of just started laughing to myself. They opened a chain restaurant -- surely VC-money worthy.

• creshal 10y ago
  Surely a chain restaurant with its own routing algorithm is worthy a bazillion dollars?
  • dvcc 10y ago
    "We placed ants in a scale model of the entire city. Placed food at the delivery points and recorded their steps. In the end it's the first swarming, multi-node, organic-learning food delivery algorithm."
    • pgeorgi 10y ago
      Now you only have to figure out how to make the ants not take short-cuts (eg. walk over houses)
      • pavel_lishin 10y ago
        You need to stop thinking inside the box, my friend. My new company Delivr will equip all of our delivery drives with stilts so they can step right over backyards, houses, etc. We're also testing out a new paramotor that will allow them to literally leap over property in their way.
      • dvcc 10y ago
        "We soon realized that ants took unexpected short-cuts. To solve this we switched to a drone based delivery model, cutting out the middle-man. In our second-generation organic-learning model we also switched to bees. We call this algorithm, buzzfeed."
  • continuations 10y ago
    But they pivoted their business model to a different space. Surely those buzzwords alone are worth a couple hundred million dollars. Now add a deep learning routing algorithm with a reactive architecture running in containers in the cloud and we're talking about a billion dollar exit. Easy.