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Tech Tuesday: Best, Average and Worst Case
Albert Wenger – Jan 14, 2014
In the last two Tech Tuesdays, I introduced the topic of computational complexity. Today as promised I want to dig a bit deeper into the question of best, average and worst case complexity. The canonical example used for this is [...] Read more
Entering the Information Age
Albert Wenger – Jan 13, 2014
Here on Continuations I have covered a lot of seemingly disparate topics such as the end of work, government surveillance and the digital balkans. They are, however, all part of my fascination with the transition from the industrial age to [...] Read more
Keeping the Internet Open in 2014: All Hands on Deck
Albert Wenger – Jan 9, 2014
For the New Year, I tweeted that we should “ll work together in 2014 to keep the Internet open for the benefit of humankind everywhere." That couldn’t be any more pressing as there is a full scale assault under way [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Exponential Growth
Albert Wenger – Jan 8, 2014
At the end of last year before going away for the holidays, I laid out a miniature program for learning / teaching about rates of change. The first step was to appreciate the tremendous difference between linear and exponential change. [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Computational Complexity (Intro Cont’d)
Albert Wenger – Jan 7, 2014
Last year’s Tech Tuesday ended with a first look at computational complexity. We saw how crazily long a brute force attempt to find a 40 character string would take. This was the result of exponential growth in the runtime of [...] Read more
Getting Started with 2014: Freeing Myself from Email
Albert Wenger – Jan 6, 2014
Belated Happy New Year everyone. Today I am traveling back to New York – weather and air traffic permitting – after a great family ski vacation in Colorado. As announced at the end of last year I took a break [...] Read more
End of Year Blogging Break and Going Off Grid
Albert Wenger – Dec 20, 2013
This will most likely be my last blog post for the year. I am planning to take off a couple weeks not just from writing but also from spending pretty much any time online. During this time I look forward [...] Read more
Some Thoughts on Surge Pricing
Albert Wenger – Dec 19, 2013
I am sympathetic to Uber’s basic argument that surge pricing is the market at work as (a) nobody is being forced to take an Uber and (b) raising prices puts more Ubers out on the street. On Saturday evening, close [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Rates of Change
Albert Wenger – Dec 18, 2013
In case you come here only on Wednesdays when I write about homeschooling, you might also want to check out Tech Tuesdays (a series that goes back several years). In yesterday’s Tech Tuesday I wrote about computational complexity and gave [...] Read more