An analysis of which stories are removed from the front page of Hacker News due to moderator intervention.
My name’s Evan and I’m a recovering physicist. I currently run a gameplay optimization company called Intoli. I spend most of my days writing code, analyzing data, designing algorithms, and talking to game developers.
PhD in High Energy Nuclear Physics, 2014
University of California Davis
MS in Physics, 2010
University of California Davis
BA in Physics and Classical Music Composition, 2008
Bard College
An analysis of which stories are removed from the front page of Hacker News due to moderator intervention.
A data analysis of how many deaths the DST transition causes due to tired driving.
A data-driven exploration of how the Hacker News ranking algorithm works.
A brief response to Nayuki’s post about the use of simulated annealing to solve an image unshredding problem. An interactive demo is used to show that a simple greedy algorithm outperforms the SA, both in terms of results and computation time.
An overview of my work on optimizing phone keyboard layouts for Swype and T9. There’s some interesting history here as well as a novel simulation-based approach to keyboard optimization.