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Even If You Could Use 100% of your Brain, Machines Will Still Beat You (not just at Go)
Albert Wenger – Jan 28, 2016
So I admit that I enjoyed watching Lucy, the Luc Besson movie with Scarlett Johanssen as the eponymous Lucy, who by virtue of an inadvertent overdose of a designer drug manages to use 100% of her brain capacity. She turns [...] Read more
Foursquare: Building the Business
Albert Wenger – Jan 14, 2016
We first invested in Foursquare in 2009 when the company was just getting going because we believed that location was a native aspect of smartphones. Since then our conviction about the importance of location to the mobile experience has continued [...] Read more
Basic Income Update
Albert Wenger – Jan 14, 2016
Regular readers of Continuations know that I have been writing a fair bit about Basic Income and have also given several talks including Techonomy Detroit and TEDxNY. I started thinking about Basic Income after writing a series of posts about [...] Read more
David Bowie
Albert Wenger – Jan 11, 2016
Much like everyone else I woke up this morning to the news that David Bowie has passed away. I was not an ardent Bowie fan but had always been impressed by just how innovative he was, not just musically but [...] Read more
Android Phone: My First Malware Experience
Albert Wenger – Jan 8, 2016
My primary phone has been an Android phone for a long time. This is mostly for philosophical reasons as I highly value general purpose computing. The ability to easily execute any code on a device that I have purchased is [...] Read more
India Impressions
Albert Wenger – Jan 6, 2016
We just spent two weeks in India traveling to some of the famous tourist destinations including Varanasi, Agra and Jodhpur. It was an intense sensory experience of colors, sounds and smells that this blog post won’t even try to do [...] Read more
Ask Me Anything: Question 6
Albert Wenger – Dec 20, 2015
Continuing with the Ask Me Anything series, today’s question is about startup stress And here is my answer Part of reducing startup stress is to take time off. And that’s exactly what I will be doing. We are going away [...] Read more
Brief Q&A on Artificial General Intelligence
Albert Wenger – Dec 17, 2015
There has been a fair bit of coverage of the potential dangers that an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) might pose for humanity. Here some questions about AGI with my currently best answers. 1. What is the difference between AI and [...] Read more
The Great Bot Rush of 2015-16
Albert Wenger – Dec 16, 2015
Natural language is the general purpose “API” for humans and it seems it may become the same for software. Bots are all the rage on several platforms including Telegram and now Slack. Facebook is experimenting with M. There are bots [...] Read more