• Sep 8, 2019

  • Great day/night with Colin/AK yesterday. Smoked beef ribs and played games at the new apartment then went out on Artesia for shuffleboard/pool.
  • In true Cheick Kongo fashion, Cheick Kongo forfeited his title fight in the first round due to an eye poke lol. Ruling was NC, Bader keeps the Bellator HW belt. I have never seen a fighter give up voluntarily like this; they’re usually screaming at the doctor and the ref to let them continue. Not doing well for French combat stereotypes.
  • First NFL sunday of the season. The best.
  • Went 4-1.
  • 49ers wons.
  • Supercontest behaved perfectly. Picks autopublished at midnight, scores updated in realtime, no issues.
  • IT Chapter 2!
• Sep 8, 2019

  • Antonio Brown was released by the Raiders after all the back and forth princess drama. Trying to fight the GM, calling him a cracker, posting on social media about BS fines, apologizing, releasing a youtube video with private phone calls, etc.
  • Watched IT chapter 1 to prepare for the new one.
  • UFC 242, Khabib vs Poirier.
  • Routing/batching/pathplanning software opportunity.
  • Talk with Nel’s Dad:
  • Company name is TSS: https://tssparatransit.com/.
  • 5M is the software product: https://tssparatransit.com/paratransit-scheduling-dispatching-software-5m/.
  • They receive calls 24 hours beforehand, and then pathplan ~10,000 total drivers and nodes.
  • Access, uncle’s main company, uses it. https://accessla.org.
  • 5M has ~10 software engineers.
  • Written in Java.
  • They have an onsite server with a backup, but need to move everything to AWS. If it fails, many drivers get stranded.
  • They can reroute in semi-realtime, O(minutes)?
  • Biggest competitor is Trapeze: https://www.trapezegroup.com/solutions.
  • My own research:
  • Two APIs for live traffic data:
  • https://developer.tomtom.com/products/traffic-api
  • https://developer.here.com/documentation/traffic/topics/what-is.html
  • TomTom has a routing API as well, which includes realtime traffic, and does many-many, but it is limited to 700: https://developer.tomtom.com/routing-api/routing-api-documentation/batch-routing.
  • Most the APIs are the standard pay-as-you-grow, up to about $1 per 1000 transactions.
  • It looks like there are actually a ton of products out there for routing and pathplanning, even with batch: https://www.capterra.com/route-planning-software/ and https://www.badgermapping.com/blog/routing-software-small-business-overview-available-choices/.
  • OptimoRoute, Locus Dispatcher, WorkWave Route Manager, Wise Systems, ClearDestination, Phalanx, OnFleet, YaCu, Cro, Titanwinds TMS, RouteSavvy, Routific, MobileIQ, C2Logix, MapPoint, Badger Maps…
  • Uber obviously has tech for this: https://eng.uber.com/engineering-an-efficient-route/.
  • This is a 3-part series about how Lyft achieves the same thing: https://eng.lyft.com/matchmaking-in-lyft-line-9c2635fe62c4.
  • And Amazon for its driver deliveries: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608640/inside-the-increasingly-complex-algorithms-that-get-packages-to-your-door/.
  • Overall, I’m wary that a smaller (newer?) product in this space will compete with the big players – or there’s a difference in the product and its application/needs that I’m not seeing yet.
  • Gonna talk with Stacy, their director, and hopefully an engineer on the team.
  • Supercontest.
  • Realized that you could technically back out everyone’s picks before lockdown with a few queries on the graphql endpoing (via web or python). This is fine for now, I doubt anyone will go through the trouble (the picks table returns id, not name, and you can’t filter by season or week directly).