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.
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.
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?
Topically, we spent the previous 2 months working from Berlin and tooling around on weekends. Visiting the Museum of Forced Labour in Weimar, I had thought that the US had a long way to go. But between this and the division of Ukraine it's feeling a lot like 1938...
February 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Topically, we spent the previous 2 months working from Berlin and tooling around on weekends. Visiting the Museum of Forced Labour in Weimar, I had thought that the US had a long way to go. But between this and the division of Ukraine it's feeling a lot like 1938...
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.
“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.
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.
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!
New Years in Berlin
January 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
New Years in Berlin
And here all I have is German Christmas Engineering!
December 30, 2024 at 4:37 AM
And here all I have is German Christmas Engineering!