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Thinking About Employment (Part 4)
Albert Wenger – Dec 3, 2012
In part 3 of this series I argued that the changes in employment are the main driver behind the massive rise in inequality in the US. That inevitably brings out a number of responses for how to address inequality, none [...] Read more
Feature Friday: Guest Checkout with Dwolla
Albert Wenger – Nov 30, 2012
When Union Square Ventures invested in Dwolla we were excited about the team’s approach to payments. But there was a big limitation which made initial use of Dwolla a bit daunting: you had to have a funded Dwolla account which [...] Read more
Movie Mini Reviews: Looper, Skyfall, Lincoln, Life of Pi
Albert Wenger – Nov 30, 2012
I have been too busy with more important topics to write movie reviews. So here are a few mini reviews (reviewlets?) of movies I have seen recently. I wanted to like both Looper and Skyfall but didn’t really. Conversely, my [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Programming (Interim Review)
Albert Wenger – Nov 27, 2012
I started the Tech Tuesday series on programming in April of this year with an overview post that compared programming to telling a person how to do something. At the time, I presented nine different questions that this raises, such [...] Read more
Sign Up for My Skillshare Class on Probability
Albert Wenger – Nov 26, 2012
It was great fun to see XKCD take up the subject of Bayesian probability. That was a good reminder that it’s been a while since I taught my Skillshare class on the subject. And so I have added a new [...] Read more
Thinking About Employment (Part 3)
Albert Wenger – Nov 25, 2012
This is the third post in my mini series on employment. Part 1 illustrated how agriculture and manufacturing, the two historically large areas of employment, have collapsed over time. Part 2 drilled into the services sector which today accounts for [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Algorithms (Wrap Up)
Albert Wenger – Nov 20, 2012
Today’s Tech Tuesday post will wrap up the algorithms mini-series. Last Tuesday I presented implementations of the same algorithm in five different languages. I had mentioned in an earlier post that the particular problem we are solving – seeing if [...] Read more
Learning to Program, Programming to Learn
Albert Wenger – Nov 19, 2012
One of the reasons that we decided to move to Chelsea was the proximity to the USV office. The other was that our kids can walk to Avenues, a new private school with an ambitious program of building campuses in [...] Read more
Inequality, The Movie
Albert Wenger – Nov 16, 2012
I am still working on my third post about employment. As part of that I have been reading up on the rise of inequality in the US and its effects on society. In that process I came across this interesting [...] Read more