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System Stability: Prepare for More Blockchain Fail Whales
Albert Wenger – Oct 3, 2016
One of the key criteria for the longterm success of any computer system would seem to be stability. For instance, if there is an app that crashes your phone you will use it less or even uninstall it. While it [...] Read more
We Need a New IPO Process ASAP
Albert Wenger – Sep 30, 2016
The IPO process is pre-Internet and that needs to change ASAP. With the tech IPO window open we are once again being treated to the maddening spectacle of the opening pop in which the first trade price is massively above [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Limits on Observations (Measurement Error)
Albert Wenger – Sep 28, 2016
So far in Uncertainty Wednesday we have seen two different limits on observations: the foundational limit that all observation necessarily entails compression of reality and the further compression resulting from the resolution of measurement. Today we will look at measurement [...] Read more
Clarifai: Custom Training and Visual Search for Everyone!
Albert Wenger – Sep 27, 2016
Today the team at Clarifai is releasing an amazing second version of their API that makes two breakthroughs available to every developer: custom training and fast visual search. The beauty of Clarifai’s API when it first launched was that you [...] Read more
Toronto: Growing a Great Startup Ecosystem
Albert Wenger – Sep 23, 2016
Yesterday evening, Allen Lau from Wattpad helped me organize a small casual dinner with other entrepreneurs and investors in Toronto. We have three existing investments in Toronto: Wattpad and Figure 1 in the city and Kik in Waterloo. Toronto has [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Limits on Observations (Resolution)
Albert Wenger – Sep 21, 2016
Today Uncertainty Wednesday continues with limits to observations. Limits to observations are — along with limits to explanations — the key sources of uncertainty that we face. Following the discussion of foundational limits to observations from last week, next up [...] Read more
I am Voting for Hillary
Albert Wenger – Sep 19, 2016
The 2016 Presidential race is not a typical election between two candidates based on the merits of their positions on key issues. Instead, it is a stark choice between Hillary Clinton, whose positions you may disagree with, but who is [...] Read more
Chelsea Bomb Explosion
Albert Wenger – Sep 18, 2016
Yesterday evening Susan, our older son Michael and I had just returned from dinner at a nearby restaurant when we heard a very loud boom and it felt like the windows and floor briefly shook. My immediate thought was that [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Limits on Observations
Albert Wenger – Sep 14, 2016
Last Uncertainty Wednesday I laid out the basic framework for understanding uncertainty: we use observations and explanations to have knowledge of reality. The degree of uncertainty we are facing results from the limits to our knowledge. Now I will start [...] Read more