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Design an ETA / delivery-time prediction system (ride-share, food delivery, logistics).

ETA is spatiotemporal regression served in real time over conditions that change by the minute. The signal is feature freshness, segment or stage decomposition, and the asymmetric cost of being wrong. Here is the design.

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ETA is spatiotemporal regression served in real time over conditions that change by the minute. The signal is feature freshness, segment or stage decomposition, and the asymmetric cost of being wrong. Here is the design.

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