iamjohnsears

6 ms·

1.
by iamjohnsears 5y ago
Switching to Cloudflare DNS fixed this for me
2.
by iamjohnsears 5y ago
I used to reinstall Windows XP to squeeze a few extra points on 3D Mark 2001
3.
by iamjohnsears 5y ago
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 users.
4.
by iamjohnsears 6y ago
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, but I may reach out to them to see if that co
5.
by iamjohnsears 6y ago
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 think I can find a way to support ESPN but it will take
6.
by iamjohnsears 6y ago
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 never bench a healthy player for an inj
7.
by iamjohnsears 6y ago
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 computationally demanding. - As long as volume is low,
8.
by iamjohnsears 6y ago
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 you, which you can then go modify if you want. It announce
9.
Show HN: I built a free AI service for fantasy sports(winfantasy.ai)
12 points by iamjohnsears 6y ago|9 comments
10.
by iamjohnsears 6y ago
They were selling $200 gold-plated HDMI cables back then too.
11.
by iamjohnsears 6y ago
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 Clune, plus Tim Salimans. They solved most of the Atari suite
12.
by iamjohnsears 6y ago
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.
13.
by iamjohnsears 6y ago
Yann is starting to sound like his good buddy Gary Marcus
14.
Ask HN: Why don’t we treat cyber warfare as an act of war?
3 points by iamjohnsears 6y ago|1 comments
15.
by iamjohnsears 6y ago
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 always-on machine right here. And yeah the modularity of a deskt
16.
by iamjohnsears 6y ago
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. It takes discipline to both create good cards and study regul
17.
by iamjohnsears 6y ago
I feel like Amazon has most successfully fought this consequence of scale.
18.
by iamjohnsears 6y ago
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 in real perpetuity. Also, most of the engineers who wrote tha
19.
by iamjohnsears 6y ago
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't play for a couple weeks after that, then lost a week
20.
by iamjohnsears 6y ago
LinkedIn is probably the best way to get in touch. Look forward to chatting.
21.
by iamjohnsears 6y ago
KeepTruckin | Data Analyst | San Francisco | Full-Time KeepTruckin is on a mission to modernize the trucking industry. With the leading fleet management platform, we are bringing trucks online and fundamentally changing the way freight is m
22.
by iamjohnsears 6y ago
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 thought I was a shoe-in. The hiring manager told me it was insulti
23.
CDC's flu-like illness data might help us find outbreaks of Covid-19(cleaningtheglass.com)
1 points by iamjohnsears 7y ago|1 comments
24.
by iamjohnsears 9y ago
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 platforms. As the author notes, this is not necessarily a reproduc
25.
The Smartest Basketball Mind Outside the NBA(si.com)
2 points by iamjohnsears 9y ago|1 comments
26.
by iamjohnsears 9y ago
This is awesome. "Seldom do more than a few of nature’s secrets give way at one time." Resonates with the application of (to practitioners) blackbox ML techniques to other domains. I saw an economist stuff an XGBoost model into a
27.
by iamjohnsears 9y ago
Nice job!