Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁
@andrew-at-sea.bsky.social
Mathematician turned startup founder. Focused on Enterprise Optimization and AI/ML. Dodgeball, Lattice Engines, ProfitLogic.
Work: https://www.dodgeballhq.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-schwartz-495aa1/
Personal: https://www.bystraeto.
Work: https://www.dodgeballhq.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-schwartz-495aa1/
Personal: https://www.bystraeto.
One more startup to exploit the decline of the American Empire: Arctic-Enabled drones and unmanned ships.
With global warming, Canada and Scandinavia have both massive opportunities as well as massive exposures in the Arctic. And with Trump threatening Denmark over Greenland, they need solutions
With global warming, Canada and Scandinavia have both massive opportunities as well as massive exposures in the Arctic. And with Trump threatening Denmark over Greenland, they need solutions
What's the upside to the Trump tariffs?
To date, most realistic discussions have been about why they're bad for everyone. But every catastrophe is an opportunity: what white space does this open up?
First, let's say what you don't do: you don't rush to own the market for rags, toilet paper, cars
To date, most realistic discussions have been about why they're bad for everyone. But every catastrophe is an opportunity: what white space does this open up?
First, let's say what you don't do: you don't rush to own the market for rags, toilet paper, cars
April 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One more startup to exploit the decline of the American Empire: Arctic-Enabled drones and unmanned ships.
With global warming, Canada and Scandinavia have both massive opportunities as well as massive exposures in the Arctic. And with Trump threatening Denmark over Greenland, they need solutions
With global warming, Canada and Scandinavia have both massive opportunities as well as massive exposures in the Arctic. And with Trump threatening Denmark over Greenland, they need solutions
More thinking about how to leverage the Trump tariffs. Certified Non-American tech!
Every major American ally is now working out how to survive an American veto. You can't do that if all your tech infrastructure is made in the US. Canada and the EU have massive infrastructure debts to fill.
Every major American ally is now working out how to survive an American veto. You can't do that if all your tech infrastructure is made in the US. Canada and the EU have massive infrastructure debts to fill.
What's the upside to the Trump tariffs?
To date, most realistic discussions have been about why they're bad for everyone. But every catastrophe is an opportunity: what white space does this open up?
First, let's say what you don't do: you don't rush to own the market for rags, toilet paper, cars
To date, most realistic discussions have been about why they're bad for everyone. But every catastrophe is an opportunity: what white space does this open up?
First, let's say what you don't do: you don't rush to own the market for rags, toilet paper, cars
April 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
More thinking about how to leverage the Trump tariffs. Certified Non-American tech!
Every major American ally is now working out how to survive an American veto. You can't do that if all your tech infrastructure is made in the US. Canada and the EU have massive infrastructure debts to fill.
Every major American ally is now working out how to survive an American veto. You can't do that if all your tech infrastructure is made in the US. Canada and the EU have massive infrastructure debts to fill.
What's the upside to the Trump tariffs?
To date, most realistic discussions have been about why they're bad for everyone. But every catastrophe is an opportunity: what white space does this open up?
First, let's say what you don't do: you don't rush to own the market for rags, toilet paper, cars
To date, most realistic discussions have been about why they're bad for everyone. But every catastrophe is an opportunity: what white space does this open up?
First, let's say what you don't do: you don't rush to own the market for rags, toilet paper, cars
April 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
What's the upside to the Trump tariffs?
To date, most realistic discussions have been about why they're bad for everyone. But every catastrophe is an opportunity: what white space does this open up?
First, let's say what you don't do: you don't rush to own the market for rags, toilet paper, cars
To date, most realistic discussions have been about why they're bad for everyone. But every catastrophe is an opportunity: what white space does this open up?
First, let's say what you don't do: you don't rush to own the market for rags, toilet paper, cars
Torshavn coffee thoughts: preparations to fly back to Boston while Canadian and actions to take should I be detained!
Kind of weird that business continuity planning now includes serious analysis of what to do if the CTO disappears into US custody.
Kind of weird that business continuity planning now includes serious analysis of what to do if the CTO disappears into US custody.
March 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Torshavn coffee thoughts: preparations to fly back to Boston while Canadian and actions to take should I be detained!
Kind of weird that business continuity planning now includes serious analysis of what to do if the CTO disappears into US custody.
Kind of weird that business continuity planning now includes serious analysis of what to do if the CTO disappears into US custody.
Gásadalur in the Faroe Islands, where the greatest danger is flocks of chickens racing around the village and taunting the ducks.
March 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Gásadalur in the Faroe Islands, where the greatest danger is flocks of chickens racing around the village and taunting the ducks.
Today we're rolling out two interesting features to test for fraud:
- Queries into the (freely available) FCC Do Not Call register of violations to determine whether a given phone number corresponds to a known abuser.
- Auto-generated summaries of fraud decisions.
GenAI needs data to feed!
- Queries into the (freely available) FCC Do Not Call register of violations to determine whether a given phone number corresponds to a known abuser.
- Auto-generated summaries of fraud decisions.
GenAI needs data to feed!
Testing out our latest integration with the National Do Not Call Registry 📵
AI summary looking nice as well!
AI summary looking nice as well!
March 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Today we're rolling out two interesting features to test for fraud:
- Queries into the (freely available) FCC Do Not Call register of violations to determine whether a given phone number corresponds to a known abuser.
- Auto-generated summaries of fraud decisions.
GenAI needs data to feed!
- Queries into the (freely available) FCC Do Not Call register of violations to determine whether a given phone number corresponds to a known abuser.
- Auto-generated summaries of fraud decisions.
GenAI needs data to feed!
I'm trying very hard to not be that Ugly Canadian, but it feels like Americans just don't get it. Incompetent authoritarians don't just hurt people in far off countries, they set up payback that hits very quickly when it does. Europe may or may not step up to this moment -- but how will you all?
March 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I'm trying very hard to not be that Ugly Canadian, but it feels like Americans just don't get it. Incompetent authoritarians don't just hurt people in far off countries, they set up payback that hits very quickly when it does. Europe may or may not step up to this moment -- but how will you all?
This is an interesting point in time to read mainstream economists. The Trump administration probably has a lot more destruction in it, but you can see that their incompetence has already set up visible failures in time for the 2028 elections.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Post-Neoliberal Delusion
The tragedy of Bidenomics.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This is an interesting point in time to read mainstream economists. The Trump administration probably has a lot more destruction in it, but you can see that their incompetence has already set up visible failures in time for the 2028 elections.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Gásadalur in the Faroe Islands. I have a Scandinavian fetish, so we're working from Tórshavn, (the harbour of Thor) for the next month.
The Faroes are a fascinating mix of communal economics and cultural conservatism. Combining government subsidies on everything with a ban on abortions.
The Faroes are a fascinating mix of communal economics and cultural conservatism. Combining government subsidies on everything with a ban on abortions.
February 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Gásadalur in the Faroe Islands. I have a Scandinavian fetish, so we're working from Tórshavn, (the harbour of Thor) for the next month.
The Faroes are a fascinating mix of communal economics and cultural conservatism. Combining government subsidies on everything with a ban on abortions.
The Faroes are a fascinating mix of communal economics and cultural conservatism. Combining government subsidies on everything with a ban on abortions.
Black box intuition beats logical thought one more time!
Ignoring politics, it's striking how this applies to deploying AI software. People always scream about how opaque algorithms need human-meaningful explanation -- when the real problem is that they're wrong.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Ignoring politics, it's striking how this applies to deploying AI software. People always scream about how opaque algorithms need human-meaningful explanation -- when the real problem is that they're wrong.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.
Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.
www.politico.com
February 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Black box intuition beats logical thought one more time!
Ignoring politics, it's striking how this applies to deploying AI software. People always scream about how opaque algorithms need human-meaningful explanation -- when the real problem is that they're wrong.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Ignoring politics, it's striking how this applies to deploying AI software. People always scream about how opaque algorithms need human-meaningful explanation -- when the real problem is that they're wrong.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Very topical, and actually a case of Trump delivering as promised. Somehow Americans pretty much across the board seem to have decided that government is only valuable when someone else pays for it.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Trump and the Perils of Ungoverning
Institutions under assault will not deliver for Americans.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Very topical, and actually a case of Trump delivering as promised. Somehow Americans pretty much across the board seem to have decided that government is only valuable when someone else pays for it.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Reposted by Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁
How can you protect a Shopify store from fraud using the Dodgeball App??
Video breakdown
0:00 Introduction
0:31 The Checkpoint Editor
0:42 A Simple Test for Emails
1:45 Email Analysis with AtData
2:52 Test Order on Shopify
3:18 Payment Protection with Sift
4:48 More Capabilities
5:27 Summary
Video breakdown
0:00 Introduction
0:31 The Checkpoint Editor
0:42 A Simple Test for Emails
1:45 Email Analysis with AtData
2:52 Test Order on Shopify
3:18 Payment Protection with Sift
4:48 More Capabilities
5:27 Summary
Protecting your Shopify Store with Dodgeball
YouTube video by Dodgeball
youtu.be
January 31, 2025 at 9:44 PM
How can you protect a Shopify store from fraud using the Dodgeball App??
Video breakdown
0:00 Introduction
0:31 The Checkpoint Editor
0:42 A Simple Test for Emails
1:45 Email Analysis with AtData
2:52 Test Order on Shopify
3:18 Payment Protection with Sift
4:48 More Capabilities
5:27 Summary
Video breakdown
0:00 Introduction
0:31 The Checkpoint Editor
0:42 A Simple Test for Emails
1:45 Email Analysis with AtData
2:52 Test Order on Shopify
3:18 Payment Protection with Sift
4:48 More Capabilities
5:27 Summary
“Every bubble is unique until it bursts”
When a new technology comes about, it's comfortable to think that existing money and hiring an entire MIT class will protect the IBMs of the day. Whereas the real lesson of innovation is that small groups of the smart/hungry/driven always dominate.
When a new technology comes about, it's comfortable to think that existing money and hiring an entire MIT class will protect the IBMs of the day. Whereas the real lesson of innovation is that small groups of the smart/hungry/driven always dominate.
January 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
“Every bubble is unique until it bursts”
When a new technology comes about, it's comfortable to think that existing money and hiring an entire MIT class will protect the IBMs of the day. Whereas the real lesson of innovation is that small groups of the smart/hungry/driven always dominate.
When a new technology comes about, it's comfortable to think that existing money and hiring an entire MIT class will protect the IBMs of the day. Whereas the real lesson of innovation is that small groups of the smart/hungry/driven always dominate.
More generally, there’s a cute approach here for AI/ML SaaS providers like us: rather than providing a static service from which clients can extract content, create a smart embedding that lives in the client’s application or browser. Then provide a management interface to drive the embedded system
Riding the Berlin subway, I was thinking about how easy it is to criticize other people's systems, and how hard it is to build a good one.
@njclement.com
just published a video that exemplifies why I like Dodgeball: we simplify our customer’s systems.
@njclement.com
just published a video that exemplifies why I like Dodgeball: we simplify our customer’s systems.
Curious about using Dodgeball from an Engineering Perspective?
Check out our first video tutorial, designed to show engineers everything they might need to know about working with Dodgeball!
#software #engineer #dev #fraud #fraudfighter
Check out our first video tutorial, designed to show engineers everything they might need to know about working with Dodgeball!
#software #engineer #dev #fraud #fraudfighter
January 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
More generally, there’s a cute approach here for AI/ML SaaS providers like us: rather than providing a static service from which clients can extract content, create a smart embedding that lives in the client’s application or browser. Then provide a management interface to drive the embedded system
Riding the Berlin subway, I was thinking about how easy it is to criticize other people's systems, and how hard it is to build a good one.
@njclement.com
just published a video that exemplifies why I like Dodgeball: we simplify our customer’s systems.
@njclement.com
just published a video that exemplifies why I like Dodgeball: we simplify our customer’s systems.
Curious about using Dodgeball from an Engineering Perspective?
Check out our first video tutorial, designed to show engineers everything they might need to know about working with Dodgeball!
#software #engineer #dev #fraud #fraudfighter
Check out our first video tutorial, designed to show engineers everything they might need to know about working with Dodgeball!
#software #engineer #dev #fraud #fraudfighter
Zero to Hero: Everything Engineers need to know about Configuring Dodgeball (Next.js Edition)
YouTube video by Dodgeball Engineering
youtu.be
January 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Riding the Berlin subway, I was thinking about how easy it is to criticize other people's systems, and how hard it is to build a good one.
@njclement.com
just published a video that exemplifies why I like Dodgeball: we simplify our customer’s systems.
@njclement.com
just published a video that exemplifies why I like Dodgeball: we simplify our customer’s systems.
It isn't AI if it just gets in the way, and using an LLM doesn’t make your software useful.
Clippy's just annoying: he doesn’t help, keeps popping up, and forces you to look at him.
The real challenge in AI isn't the algorithms: it's figuring out how to make it additive to a working system.
Clippy's just annoying: he doesn’t help, keeps popping up, and forces you to look at him.
The real challenge in AI isn't the algorithms: it's figuring out how to make it additive to a working system.
January 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It isn't AI if it just gets in the way, and using an LLM doesn’t make your software useful.
Clippy's just annoying: he doesn’t help, keeps popping up, and forces you to look at him.
The real challenge in AI isn't the algorithms: it's figuring out how to make it additive to a working system.
Clippy's just annoying: he doesn’t help, keeps popping up, and forces you to look at him.
The real challenge in AI isn't the algorithms: it's figuring out how to make it additive to a working system.
We just wrote our first Engineering Manifesto Against Fraud!
From a purely financial perspective, that's interesting: businesses in general lose 5% of revenue to fraud, and it can be much worse for fast-growing online companies.
dodgeball-engineering.medium.com/uncovering-e...
From a purely financial perspective, that's interesting: businesses in general lose 5% of revenue to fraud, and it can be much worse for fast-growing online companies.
dodgeball-engineering.medium.com/uncovering-e...
Uncovering Engineering Best Practices for Fraud
Better Protection with Less Work
dodgeball-engineering.medium.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We just wrote our first Engineering Manifesto Against Fraud!
From a purely financial perspective, that's interesting: businesses in general lose 5% of revenue to fraud, and it can be much worse for fast-growing online companies.
dodgeball-engineering.medium.com/uncovering-e...
From a purely financial perspective, that's interesting: businesses in general lose 5% of revenue to fraud, and it can be much worse for fast-growing online companies.
dodgeball-engineering.medium.com/uncovering-e...
Reposted by Andrew@Dodgeball 🍁
Really excited about an article in the pipeline explaining how to think about fraud in 2025 as an Engineer. Here's a little taste!
January 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Really excited about an article in the pipeline explaining how to think about fraud in 2025 as an Engineer. Here's a little taste!
Last day of Gluhwein season in Berlin. Lovely in the snow, but still very serious!
January 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Last day of Gluhwein season in Berlin. Lovely in the snow, but still very serious!
It's always a good day when one of your customers is willing to talk about using your software to save money:
www.linkedin.com/posts/mercha...
www.linkedin.com/posts/mercha...
MRC | Merchant Risk Council on LinkedIn: #paymentsoptimization
In a rapidly growing subscription business, maintaining a proactive fraud posture is critical to optimizing both cost and effectiveness. Building a scalable…
www.linkedin.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It's always a good day when one of your customers is willing to talk about using your software to save money:
www.linkedin.com/posts/mercha...
www.linkedin.com/posts/mercha...
New Years in Berlin
January 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
New Years in Berlin
We're working on our next generation of Enterprise Optimization software! A lot of engineers look at AI as dead algorithms: someone else wrote an Algorithm or Created an Agent, which you drop onto your code with a splat!
Instead, we're focused on optimizing client systems around AI to stop fraud
Instead, we're focused on optimizing client systems around AI to stop fraud
This weekend, my wife and I took our little Ford Ranger through the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The lack of cell signal and new vistas helped kick off my contemplative side, adding structure to the vision for Dodgeball in 2025.
December 30, 2024 at 4:02 AM
We're working on our next generation of Enterprise Optimization software! A lot of engineers look at AI as dead algorithms: someone else wrote an Algorithm or Created an Agent, which you drop onto your code with a splat!
Instead, we're focused on optimizing client systems around AI to stop fraud
Instead, we're focused on optimizing client systems around AI to stop fraud