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Behind the Scenes at Xobni (xobni.com)
14 points by jmorin007 on March 11, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


How much effort is put into into collecting, tracking, and analyzing lunch orders?


We have actually thought of a system that predicts your future orders so you don't have to enter them yourself.


I suggest using a cascade of AdaBoosted linear support vector machines which integrates with your relational database backend and exposes itself as a RESTful web service. Then factor that out as an in-house library for future lunch-intelligence applications.

Certainly letting everyone bring a brown bag or order in miso soup and hoagies is out of the question...


> Certainly letting everyone bring a brown bag or order in miso soup and hoagies is out of the question...

I think that's their whole point. These are the kind of geeks they want to be seen as.




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