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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
Small Pieces, Khan, Quizlet
Andy Weissman – Nov 19, 2013
One way to build something big is to build something big. Like a pyramid. Or a multifaceted bank. Or a university. Another way is to build something that is architected to be full of small pieces, small things, small units. Khan Academy is one [...] 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
Human Dx
Albert Wenger – Nov 14, 2013
Today’s post is over at USV.com and is announcing our investment in Human Dx. They are working on something that I first wrote about here on Continuations under the somewhat clumsy title The Next Frontier for Peer Production: Open Machine [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Turing Machines (Introduction)
Albert Wenger – Nov 12, 2013
So far in the Tech Tuesday series on the theory of computation we have learned about Finite State Machines and their limitations, as well as the more general relationship between automata and languages. As a reminder, an automaton is a [...] Read more