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Troy Larson

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DriverChronicles

·1 day ago

Calling for a Ride to Get Fired

Another entry from the journal of a rideshare driver — This morning I picked up a rider in South Pleasantville, going to Taco Tony’s on 54th Street. He was wearing their uniform. He said “I’m probably going in to get fired.” I was like, “Oh, no. Really? Why?” He said he had been scheduled to work the previous night, but…

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Calling for a Ride to Get Fired

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Javen Xu

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Lyft Engineering

·Mar 22

lyft2vec — Embeddings at Lyft

Co-authors: Javen Xu, Hakan Baba and Adriana Deneault Intro Graph learning methods can reveal interesting insights that capture the underlying relational structures. Graph learning methods have many industry applications in areas such as product or content recommender systems and network analysis. In this post, we discuss how we use graph learning…

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lyft2vec — Embeddings at Lyft

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Young Retiree

·Mar 21

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Kind of describes me lately This article contains links, of which the author can make a commission. Hello people. I guess I have something in common with the recently crowned Best Picture. Between dealing with my car, subsequently trying to get a rental [see my last post: Frustrated], remembering that…

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Everything Everywhere All at Once

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Troy Larson

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DriverChronicles

·Mar 21

Don’t Be a Picklebreath

Another entry from the diary of a rideshare driver — Saturday and Sunday mornings are mostly car runs — picking people up to go back to their cars parked outside a bar somewhere. Pretty unpleasant most of the time because these people are unshowered, with teeth unbrushed. I call them “picklebreaths” because they blow their hot, vinegar breath all over the car. I just had one this morning. Don’t be a picklebreath.

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Don’t Be a Picklebreath

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Troy Larson

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DriverChronicles

·Mar 14

Alcoholism is a Terrible Thing

Another entry from the journal of a rideshare driver — This afternoon I got called to a home in college town. When I arrived, my rider was sitting on the deck outside her house. …

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Alcoholism is a Terrible Thing

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Troy Larson

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FictionFaction

·Mar 10

The Rider — Ch 3

Chapter 3: A red Ford with driver’s side damage — The desk where Danny Dunn spent little of his time was nothing like the desks of detectives you see in the movies. There were no piles of manila folders, no ring-shaped coffee stains or stacks of paper. …

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Serial: The Rider — Ch 3

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Troy Larson

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DriverChronicles

·Mar 8

I’m Not Driving During Bar Closing Time Anymore

Another entry from the journal of a rideshare driver — Tonight was my least favorite night of driving rideshare so far. It was bar closing time and I got a request. Without paying too much attention to the map, I headed off to pick up my passengers. When I arrived, I realized I was at the strip club, which had…

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I’m Not Driving During Bar Closing Time Anymore

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Mark Spearman

·Mar 3

The Drunk Rider Who Thinks They’re Unique

Most questions and cliché statements that rideshare riders come up with don’t bother me. “So how long have you been driving for Uber?”, is common. They can look on the app and it tells them, but they’re just making small talk. They’re trying to make the ride less awkward. “What’s…

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Troy Larson

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DriverChronicles

·Feb 28

I Love the Way You Lie

Another entry from the diary of a driver — One of my favorite things is when I get to listen to people lie during a ride. This morning, I picked up a girl at Cityscapes downtown. Her boyfriend requested the ride for her, and I waited a considerable amount of time before they came down. I almost called it…

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I Love the Way You Lie

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Troy Larson

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FictionFaction

·Feb 24

The Rider — Ch 1

Chapter 1: A rideshare driver has a fateful collision with a motorcycle rider. — The driver rubbed his eyes with one hand, then pinched the bridge of his nose. It was still early autumn, but colder than normal, and the heat blowing from the vents wasn’t helping to keep him awake. “Been a long shift?” the male passenger in the back seat asked. “Yeah,”…

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Serial: The Rider — Ch 1

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