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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
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