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Homeschool Wednesday: Even More Math and Beauty
Albert Wenger – Nov 27, 2013
Two previous Homeschool Wednesdays covered the relationship between math and beauty as a different way of motivating the study of math. My first presentation was on spirals and the second one on waves. In each case the main point I [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: The Halting Problem (Introduction)
Albert Wenger – Nov 26, 2013
The current sequence of Tech Tuesday posts is about the theory of computation. We have already seen that a simple of model of computation such as the Finite State Machine is very useful but has severe limitations in that it [...] Read more
Open Source Realtime OS for Robotics / Drones?
Albert Wenger – Nov 25, 2013
In my personal public markets portfolio I am long a number of robotics companies because I see robotics as one of the big secular trends that’s investible. As we are getting more and more robots in different form factors (including [...] Read more
For the Holidays: Gift Cards from Skillshare + Shapeways
Albert Wenger – Nov 22, 2013
I am a bit of a grinch around the holidays as I really don’t like getting more stuff. As a result I am also not all that excited about buying stuff for other people. Thankfully this year there is a [...] Read more
Still Waiting for IPO 2.0
Albert Wenger – Nov 21, 2013
Facebook goes public and its stock declines. Commentators write that investors should have known it was overpriced. Twitter goes public and its stock pops. Commentators write that the company left money on the table. Not nearly enough people though remark [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Higher Ed
Albert Wenger – Nov 20, 2013
Today I will be participating in a discussion at NYU on the future of higher education. The panel that I will be on has been given the following questions: “Do universities provide good value for money today? What are the [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Turing Machines (Continued)
Albert Wenger – Nov 19, 2013
Last Tech Tuesday as part of my series on the theory of computation I introduced the Turing Machine. Just to refresh your memory, the Turing Machine is essentially a Finite State Machine connected to an infinite tape for storage. And [...] Read more
Whither Facebook?
Albert Wenger – Nov 18, 2013
One of the rumors from last week was that Snapchat turned down an acquisition offer from Facebook valued at $3 billion. As always in these situations (cf Groupon) one doesn’t know whether such an offer really existed or how firm [...] Read more
Leaving Las Vegas (and Coming Back Soon)
Albert Wenger – Nov 15, 2013
Writing this on a flight back from Vegas where Susan and I just attended Day 1 of the Women 2.0 conference – I will write a longer blog post about that when not crammed into an economy class seat on [...] Read more