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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
Homeschool Wednesday: Push vs Pull
Albert Wenger – Dec 4, 2013
The biggest challenge of homeschooling is letting go of push and waiting for pull. It is really hard to remain patient when kids are goofing off. The instinct is to push more things at them in the hope that they [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Halting Problem (Implications)
Albert Wenger – Dec 3, 2013
Last Tech Tuesday, I introduced the halting problem. As you may recall the upshot was that there is no general algorithm that will determine whether a Turing Machine will stop for a particular input. Now you might at first think [...] Read more
Opposing View Reader (Update)
Albert Wenger – Dec 2, 2013
A couple of years ago I wrote about our need for an “opposing view reader” that would intentionally show us commentary from people with opinions different from our own. As far as I can tell relatively little progress has been [...] Read more
Thanksgiving: Thanking Susan
Albert Wenger – Nov 28, 2013
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Not only is there no gift giving madness but it is great to be reminded that I have much to thankful for. Last year I wrote a post thanking my parents. This year I want [...] Read more
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