Hey! Fellow YCer (S24) here. Super cool idea. Depending on how b2c you want to be, one area to maybe consider would be surgeries. Scheduling rooms for surgeries is quite challenging, and has a cost component associated with it which makes the problem even harder. Especially since, as you can imagine, it's not at all obvious how long a procedure will necessarily take, and other procedures may need to start at a certain time.
Readit Newsmvh commented on Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling · Posted by u/Gobhanu
Yeah, we've heard the same "big bang" story a bunch of times as well. However, step 1 (extensive test suite) is often missing and is something you'd have to do as part of the modernization effort as well. Overall, it is a pretty hairy and difficult problem.
Sort of related to what bloop is trying to do too right?
Excited to try this once y'all get self-hosting! Super useful that you'll also support structured output and openai style functions for models where it's not supported by the native API (that's been a big painpoint for breaking out of openai).
We're using Maitai's structured output in prod (Benchify, YC S24) and it's awesome. OpenAI interface for all the models. Super consistent. And they've fixed bugs around escaping characters that OpenAI didn't fix yet.
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I use this every week and have been using it for years. Huge fan.
I just want to thank you. We need more people like you in the world. This sort of obscene surveillance should be illegal.
Thank you! Keep in mind this was a joint effort by many, many students. I just happened to tweet about it first.
Props to you and your fellow students for being the professionals in the room (along with a few of the professors.)
Thank you! Our faculty allies were very helpful as well, although in a more private way.
Here's a chart of the discussion on Twitter:
https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartter/1578145220369084416.svg
Useful to see if you've missed any comments that you'd like to reply to.
Thanks!
Have you tried finding allies in the faculty on this issue? I strongly reccomend you find a handful who share your concerns and leverage them to get this madness resolved.
Sharing desks is hard, I'm curious if they are trying to use COVID WFH policy to justify over-accepting students, hoping the schedules just magically work out. Fun fact, they wont. No amount of metrics will stop two people wanting the same desk at the same time, if allowed. Or am I mistaken? Why else would monitoring desk usage be on the table (excuse the pun)? Surely they aren't trying to use these figures in evaluating a students work, right?
I think it's pretty sad that Northeastern spent so much money building a fancy new science center, which is mostly unusable covered space, and now there aren't enough desks.
We have some excellent faculty allies. The admin is interested in doing the same thing to faculty (making them share space) and so faculty is 100% on our side. Hence we had a public letter with 250+ signatures including many faculty.
I agree they likely over-accepted and spent money poorly but I can't say for certain, as I'm not in admin and thus not privy to these details.
I’m the student who wrote the twitter thread. Let me know if you have any questions!
I want to know about .mil/anime