Writing
Choose
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
WeHeartWifi: Getting the Most out of Spectrum
Albert Wenger – Mar 8, 2013
From a purely engineering perspective we can calculate the optimal amount of interference for a particular band of spectrum. We want just enough to achieve coverage. Any more is simply a waste of power. It is that knowledge of a [...] Read more
Standing Against Excessive Executive Power
Albert Wenger – Mar 7, 2013
Because I consider myself a peer progressive who believes in some role for government and the existence of market failures, I usually don’t agree with Senator Rand Paul. But I strongly support the basis of his filibuster of John Brennan’s [...] Read more
The Sequester: Fixing the Federal Budget
Albert Wenger – Mar 6, 2013
I have been wanting to write about the sequester for a couple of days and have been stymied by not knowing where to start because I deeply disagree with both sides. It’s a bit like observing two of our kids [...] Read more