Picked a pin at random to check for some formatting issues. I'm just struck by how we got this info just by asking nicely.
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This is *not* the sort of petabyte scale computation that the tech industry often thinks of when we think data problem. It's a very, very human scale dataset.
But as we get good at ingesting updates rapidly, we can ask it useful questions, like "Where's nearest short waitlist?"
But as we get good at ingesting updates rapidly, we can ask it useful questions, like "Where's nearest short waitlist?"
"But how will you go from unstructured text notes to something a computer can operate on? Spin up an ML team to do natural language parsing and then..."
No it probably sounds closer to "Read from computer, type into a computer, ideally very quickly."
No it probably sounds closer to "Read from computer, type into a computer, ideally very quickly."
On the scale of difficult logistical problems "Call every pharmacy in California in a day" sounds intuitively "Hmm, pretty hard" but then you actually put numbers on it you realize a motivated high school class could do it successfully if they didn't have anything else to do.
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