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Uncertainty Wednesday: Sensitivity and Specificity (Cont’d)
Albert Wenger – Apr 5, 2017
Last Uncertainty Wednesday, I introduced sensitivity and specificity as measures of how good a test is (or using the language of our framework, how strong a signal is). We derived the following formula P(B | H) = P(B)/P(H) * P(H [...] Read more
Hooray for Lab Grown Meat
Albert Wenger – Apr 3, 2017
In my draft book World After Capital, I have a section on Human Needs. I am currently in the middle of rewriting that section (so don’t go read it now) because it suffers in parts from a confusion between needs [...] Read more
EarthMatch: Matching Donations to Earthjustice
Albert Wenger – Apr 1, 2017
As regular readers of Continuations know, I believe humanity urgently needs to act on climate change. In this context it is particularly appalling that the current administration wants to unwind the advances of the Clean Power Plan. The atmosphere is [...] Read more
Brain Interfaces: Another Great Example of the Duality of Technology
Albert Wenger – Mar 31, 2017
In my book World After Capital, I open with a section on the duality of technology: since the days of inventing fire we can use technology for good and for bad. The technology itself simply broadens the space of what’s [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Sensitivity and Specificity
Albert Wenger – Mar 29, 2017
Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday is a further continuation of the PSA Test example, but I got tired of the boring title and wanted to give the post as more, well, specific one. Last Wednesday I wrote that sensitivity and specificity are [...] Read more
Some Things I Have Learned About Email
Albert Wenger – Mar 27, 2017
A non trivial part of my time is spent reading and writing a lot of email. Here are some things that I have learned and that work for me. There are only two legitimate uses for bcc. First, explicitly moving [...] Read more
Government Just Gave Your ISP Even More Power: You Can Take it Back!
Albert Wenger – Mar 24, 2017
Yesterday the Republican-controlled Senate voted to allow ISPs to sell customer data including browsing history without prior customer consent. I tweeted that in response it is “Time to tunnel all home traffic through a proxy.” First let me explain for [...] Read more
When Will Blockchain-based Decentralization Matter?
Albert Wenger – Mar 20, 2017
I became interested in Bitcoin reasonably early and was fortunate to invest in some early mining (although as with all good investments in retrospect not nearly enough). There is currently a fight brewing in Bitcoin world with the possibility of [...] Read more
What Price Change?
Albert Wenger – Mar 17, 2017
The publication of the budget is a good moment to revisit my personal opposition to Trump. If you have read my draft book “World After Capital” you know that I want a lot of change. Much of the changes that [...] Read more