Opens profile photo
Follow
Click to Follow robertkern
Robert Kern
@robertkern
CTO & Co-Founder at
Auckland, NZJoined May 2008

Robert Kern’s Tweets

We're thrilled to finally be able to share a new aspect to our long-standing partnership with Uber - welcome Uber Explore! PredictHQ is supplying the awesome events you can find in 15 cities (with more cities coming soon). buff.ly/3tomL4f #demandintelligence #uberexplore
3
Huge thanks to the digital team for getting us a machine readable feed of locations. They've been very responsive and helpful, and this is going to be perfect for getting a much more reliable feed of new locations 🙏
7
142
Show this thread
Heads up #Chicago! There is a demand surge heading your way on July 16 to 18! Demand patterns have changed but it doesn't mean you have to be left in the dark. Expect more of these alerts coming soon so follow the crew ⚡️ #demandintelligence
Quote Tweet
Demand Surge Alert ⚡️ for CHICAGO 🇺🇸 July 16-18. Businesses need to get ready for a high-impact event cluster of 80 events over three days that will drive 195,000 people in total predicted attendance. Details? Login or signup: bit.ly/3hu6x57 #demandintelligence
Image
2
The cloud is horrible. Just discovered we accidentally left a GPU instance running that billed us $3000.
Quote Tweet
The cloud is amazing. We just spun up about 20,000 virtual computers to chug through regenerating 12 million image previews in our new style. In 23 real world minutes, we consumed the equivalent compute of letting my laptop chug 24/7 for >3 months and it cost about $10.
Show this thread
181
10.3K
February saw a 500% spike in event cancellations/postponements, due to the coronavirus. March looks on track on an even larger spike. We're working closely with our customers to ensure they know how to use our API during periods of mass cancellations:
4
"Regions can attract clusters of events around the same time, a scenario Aviation Rank could prove particularly useful for — detecting what PredictHQ calls “perfect storms of demand” that may go undetected by airlines laser-focused on single large events."
2