| ▲ | MikeTheGreat 4 hours ago | |||||||
Well, if there's one company on Earth that's both incentivized to find an algorithm to efficient pack stuff into their shipping bins and also well-financed enough to actually figure out a good linear or quadratic-time algorithm to do so, it's definitely Amazon. And once they do so they'll have solved two big problems! :) | ||||||||
| ▲ | SllX 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
They might have the ability to do so. The motivation? Well let me put it this way: I tried Amazon’s grocery delivery service, and stopped using it because everything—everything—kept arriving in its own individual bag regardless of whether it made any sense, so it was just a bunch of bags I had to carry upstairs. That bags also had no handles. So they were optimizing for something, but it definitely wasn’t packaging efficiency. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | kjellsbells an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
I see what you did there. Touché. | ||||||||