At Uber, event forecasting enables us to future-proof our services based on anticipated user demand. The goal is to accurately predict where, when, and how many ride requests Uber will receive at any given time.Engineering Extreme Event Forecasting at Uber with Recurrent Neural Networks
The first thing I tried was using an optical character recognition library called SwiftOCR. The problem with using SwiftOCR for my use case was that it is designed for reading strings (like giftcard codes) rather than individual numbers. I also couldn’t get it to differentiate between “this is an empty square” and “I couldn’t read this digit”. Behind the Magic: How we built the ARKit Sudoku Solver
