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Switching to Cloudflare DNS fixed this for me

I used to reinstall Windows XP to squeeze a few extra points on 3D Mark 2001

Curious what happens with Yahoo fantasy sports. They have been investing in new features this year for the first time in what seems like a decade. Still have millions of active use…

Sleeper is awesome! They're definitely one that I'm looking at (along with ESPN). They currently only offer a read-only API, which means I can't actually set your lineups for you, …

I'm sorry, I wish there were! Unfortunately only Yahoo offers an API that lets my service directly interact with your team. Out of curiosity, which fantasy provider do you use? I t…

Good question. I should probably make this clearer on the site. The short answer is that if a player is injured we won't put them into your lineup unless there's an open spot (ie. …

We'll see what happens. The main dynamics at play are: - You're right, if I build out some of the more interesting AI features such as live draft assistant it will become more comp…

Hi, John here. I built this tool to solve the most annoying thing in fantasy sports: losing because you forgot to set your lineup. At the start of every week it sets everything for…

They were selling $200 gold-plated HDMI cables back then too.

There’s some cool stuff from OpenAI and Uber AI Labs scaling up neuroevolution (disclosure: these were my former colleagues at Uber). Check out the work from Ken Stanley and Jeff C…

Am a data scientist and don’t do anything with JavaScript but I love seeing stuff like this just to get a feel for the lay of the land and how everything fits together.

Yann is starting to sound like his good buddy Gary Marcus

It seems like nation states hacking US electoral systems could be interpreted as an act of war. Why doesn’t the US respond militarily? Not advocating for this, but curious how we a…

Bought a desktop computer last week for the first time since 2005. Installed Ubuntu. Still SSH’ing into it mostly from MacBook, but it’s such a boon to productivity to have an alwa…

I used Anki extensively in grad school. There was a moment when I realized it was really working in a class on linear dynamical systems— all of a sudden everything just got easy. I…

I feel like Amazon has most successfully fought this consequence of scale.

When I started out of college as a SWE at HBO in 2009, there was a ton of code written in like 1999-2002 still in use. It was cool to see well-written and documented code live on i…

Heard about this game from Tobi Lutke on a podcast. Bought the early access version while I was in bed recovering from surgery and promptly lost track of the next eight hours. Didn…

LinkedIn is probably the best way to get in touch. Look forward to chatting.

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I showed up to my interview at Best Buy in Ithaca, NY in shorts and was immediately rejected. I was a rising senior in high school and was really into building computers, so though…

Disclosure: I worked for Ben in Philadelphia. I think it would be a really positive development if more independent authors can make a competitive income building their own platfor…