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Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer (Book Review)
Albert Wenger – Mar 27, 2013
While Moonwalking with Einstein isn’t a new book – it was published in 2011 – I only just got around to reading it. The book’s subtitle is “The Art and Science of Remembering Everything” and it uses modern day memory [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Evolving Your Technology As You Grow
Albert Wenger – Mar 26, 2013
The last two Tech Tuesdays were about choosing technology as a startup. Today we are talking about what to do once you are up and running. Let me start by categorically stating what you should never, ever do: rewrite everything [...] Read more
There is No Free Will (And That’s OK)
Albert Wenger – Mar 25, 2013
A couple of weeks ago I heard Brian Greene state there is no scientific basis for free will. It was a powerful statement because he made it quite categorically and tersely. And it really jolted me into thinking about this [...] Read more
Sift Science
Albert Wenger – Mar 18, 2013
As more and more economic activity moves online, fraud is never far behind. Online fraud is in many ways more attractive to criminals as it can be committed at a safe distance from its targets and scales far better. It [...] Read more
GEL Conference is Back (to Life)
Albert Wenger – Mar 15, 2013
One of my favorite New York City conferences is back after taking a 1-year hiatus. GEL'13 will be on from April 17-19 with Thursday, April 18th being the main day for presentations. Fittingly, this year’s theme is “Back to Life” [...] Read more
Happy Pi Day!
Albert Wenger – Mar 14, 2013
It is easy for me to remember Pi Day because it also happens to be Susan’s birthday (Happy Birthday!). The digits of pi have some amazing properties and are fun to explore with kids as a great way of learning [...] Read more
Google Continuing to Invest in Deep Learning
Albert Wenger – Mar 13, 2013
Google just acquired DNNresearch, a spinoff company from the University of Toronto led by Geoffrey Hinton. The DNN in the company name stands for deep neural networks. As I have been learning from Professor Hinton’s online course, these are networks [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Choosing Your Technologies (Continued)
Albert Wenger – Mar 12, 2013
Last Tech Tuesday I offered some very rough guidelines for making technology choices in a startup. I was going to write today about how to evolve that over time, but one of the comments suggested that it would be great [...] Read more
Your Security Perimeter Is Larger Than You Think
Albert Wenger – Mar 11, 2013
Securing your site or service has become ever more important as the number of attacks is rapidly on the rise. As I have written before on Continuations I am not a fan of overreaching security legislation as a response. If [...] Read more