• 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!

• 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).