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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
Tech Tuesday: Computational Complexity (Introduction)
Albert Wenger – Dec 17, 2013
So far in the Tech Tuesday series on the theory of computer science we have covered questions of computability. We have looked at ways of formalizing computation through abstract machines such as the Finite State Machine and the Turing Machine [...] Read more
More Bitcoin as Protocol
Albert Wenger – Dec 16, 2013
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post on bitcoin as protocol that got a couple of hundred comments from which I learned a lot. This is an important topic and Chris Dixon has done a lot of good [...] Read more
More on Basic Income Guarantee: Minimum Wage is Not a Longterm Solution
Albert Wenger – Dec 13, 2013
On Monday I posted about looking for a Research Assistant primarily to look into questions around using Basic Income Guarantees as a way to deal with what I believe is the end of work as we know it. Then yesterday [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Wolfram Alpha
Albert Wenger – Dec 11, 2013
There is an amazing tool out there for teaching and learning about Math (and the world) and not enough people know about it. If you have never tried it out before, you should head over to Wolfram Alpha right now. [...] Read more
Looking for a Part-time Research Assistant (Paid Position)
Albert Wenger – Dec 9, 2013
Early next year I will be giving a talk on the challenges and opportunities arising from the current transformation of economy and society by technology and technology enabled globalization. I am rapidly realizing though that I don’t have nearly enough [...] Read more
Support Jailbreaking: Open Societies Require Open Computing
Albert Wenger – Dec 6, 2013
So earlier this week while in SF, I was trying to get some work done on my way from the city to Sand Hill road. As per usual I turned on tethering on my Android phone and started up my [...] Read more
Technology for Train Safety
Albert Wenger – Dec 5, 2013
There have been a spate of deadly train derailments including two in the summer (one in Spain and one in Canada) most recently the Metro North one. Human error played a significant role in all of these. For instance, in [...] Read more