Don’t let the crow guide your routes

1 · Instacart · April 6, 2021, 11:29 p.m.
Don’t let the crows guide your routesReplacing Haversine distance using a simple Machine Learning modelAuthors: Reza Faturechi & Jagannath PutrevuAt the core of Instacart’s grocery delivery service is our Logistics engine that matches our customers’ orders with our shoppers. In any given metro area, we can fulfill from hundreds of store locations, delivering within as fast as two hours for a majority of our orders. To do this effectively, our Logistics engine processes billions of computations e...