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Building Better Algorithms Requires Human Judgment (and Values)
Albert Wenger – Aug 29, 2016
At the end of last week Facebook announced that it would stop having humans write summaries of trending news stories. This follows previous allegations that the selection of trending stories had been changed to remove conservative ones. This is a [...] Read more
My GEL 2016 Talk (Video)
Albert Wenger – Aug 25, 2016
Here is my talk from the wonderful GEL conference earlier this year covering some of the ideas from my draft book World After Capital Read more
Programming without Programmers? Aka Software Eating Software Development?
Albert Wenger – Aug 24, 2016
I love programming. I also encourage people to learn some programming because (a) it is a useful way of thinking and (b) much of the world will be programmable. Here is a quick example that I just encountered when I [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday Revisited: Index
Albert Wenger – Aug 23, 2016
I am about to start a new series (on uncertainty) and so I decided it would be fun to go back and index all the old Tech Tuesday posts. Here is is (also available as a Google Document): Computing’s Building [...] Read more
Seeking Hardware Hacking Advice
Albert Wenger – Aug 22, 2016
We have a couple of split air conditioners. One of them is reasonably old (1987 model) and when we bought the place it came without a remote. We will eventually have to redo the roof and will replace all ACs [...] Read more
The Terrible, No Good CFAA: Giving More Power to Networks Instead of Endusers
Albert Wenger – Aug 19, 2016
I have written and talked about the need for a “right to be represented by a bot.” By a bot here I mean software that runs on my behalf as an enduser and mediates my interactions with online services. In [...] Read more
Microsoft Hololens: Some First Observations
Albert Wenger – Aug 17, 2016
I recently ordered and received a developer edition of Microsoft’s Hololens. This is me looking goofy wearing it at the USV office: TL;DR: the Hololens is a well executed preview of an amazing augmented reality future. Compared to the Vive [...] Read more
All Hands: Take Questions in Advance
Albert Wenger – Aug 10, 2016
And now for something different: just some pragmatic advice. You should run all hands meetings in your company. They are a key bonding and communication opportunity. You can have them until you are quite large – for instance, Twilio, which [...] Read more
Sign All Things
Albert Wenger – Aug 8, 2016
I have written repeatedly about why I don’t think “encrypt all things” is the right answer for constructing a democratic society going forward. I am, however, a fan of the idea to “sign all things.” What I mean by this [...] Read more