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Foundations of Probability (My New Skillshare Class)
Albert Wenger – Oct 24, 2011
When I taught my Skillshare class on Bayesian Probability, I wound up spending a fair bit of time sharing my fascination with the foundations of probability. Why is there uncertainty in the world to begin with? How do we measure [...] Read more
The B Corporation
Albert Wenger – Oct 20, 2011
I attended an interesting lunch yesterday on something called the B Corporation. It is an effort to formally write the idea of triple bottom line businesses into corporate law and provide the standards to go along with that. Today’s common [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Of Bits and Bytes (Binary Number System)
Albert Wenger – Oct 18, 2011
Before we can go on and explore the building blocks in more detail, we need to learn a little bit about the fundamental underlying language used in computers: the binary number system. Based on my kids’ school, this appears to [...] Read more
Occupy Wall Street: Some Foundational Thoughts
Albert Wenger – Oct 17, 2011
So I was wrong when I wrote that Occupy Wall Street would at best help draw media attention to inequality. I had suggested that instead folks should spend their time building startups that disrupt existing institutions. It now seems that [...] Read more
dmr
Albert Wenger – Oct 14, 2011
Dennis M. Ritchie passed away yesterday. Ritchie was the creator of the C programming language and the co-creator of the Unix operating system (together with Ken Thompson) starting in the late 60s and early 70s. Both C and Unix have [...] Read more
Edmodo is Hiring: Help Connect Teachers and Students
Albert Wenger – Oct 13, 2011
Do you have a passion for creating technology to better connect teachers with each other and their students? Then you should consider working at Edmodo. The company, which is based in San Mateo, provides a free and safe social network [...] Read more
Tech Tuesdays: Computing’s Building Blocks (Overview)
Albert Wenger – Oct 11, 2011
Welcome to Tech Tuesdays! This is the first installment and as I had promised I am not assuming any prior knowledge other than as an enduser of computers. Instead we are starting with the absolute basics. Every computing system has [...] Read more
Innovation: Perez vs Thiel (Optimism vs Pessimism)
Albert Wenger – Oct 10, 2011
Tomorrow I will be attending an “Innovation Summit” hosted by the Darden School of Business. I just finished reading Peter Thiel’s “The End of the Future” in the National Review. Thiel’s argument is that underlying our economic difficulties is a [...] Read more
Steve Jobs
Albert Wenger – Oct 6, 2011
It feels a bit strange now that I wrote a post yesterday morning about “Apple’s Glory Years,” not realizing that in the evening I would see the news that Steve Jobs had passed away. There have been many excellent tributes [...] Read more