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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
Car Talk Tonight
Albert Wenger – Nov 15, 2012
Ok, so this is not really about the NPR show, although Click and Clack did speak at my MIT graduation. Instead I am talking tonight at a BMW event which is about introducing their own venture activities as well as [...] Read more
Petraeus Lessons
Albert Wenger – Nov 14, 2012
Let’s get the unimportant things out of the way right away. Several people had affairs. That to me has zero news value. And for all the “Why do powerful men cheat more?” headline writers, I suggest taking my Bayesian probability [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Algorithms (Implementations)
Albert Wenger – Nov 13, 2012
Last week in Tech Tuesday, we continued our introduction to algorithms by looking at a first implementation. As a reminder we are trying to find out whether a sequence of integers contains a number that is repeated four times in [...] Read more
Information Technology and Hybrid Organizations (Thesis)
Albert Wenger – Nov 12, 2012
This is the second post in my little project of self publishing my PhD Thesis. Last week I introduced an econometric analysis of the impact of Information Technology (IT) firm size. This time it is a more theoretical paper that [...] Read more