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We Need Bees, Not Monsanto
Albert Wenger – Mar 29, 2013
A while back I had stopped worrying about bee Colony Collapse Disorder because it had been out of the news for a while. From this morning’s New York Times it seems like I was wrong. Apparently if anything the rate [...] Read more
More Power to the States?
Albert Wenger – Mar 28, 2013
I have started reading Antifragile by Nassim Taleb (review coming when I am done with it). As an early example of a system that gets better under stress he mentions city states (presumably as they existed in ancient Greece). At [...] Read more
Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer (Book Review)
Albert Wenger – Mar 27, 2013
While Moonwalking with Einstein isn’t a new book – it was published in 2011 – I only just got around to reading it. The book’s subtitle is “The Art and Science of Remembering Everything” and it uses modern day memory [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Evolving Your Technology As You Grow
Albert Wenger – Mar 26, 2013
The last two Tech Tuesdays were about choosing technology as a startup. Today we are talking about what to do once you are up and running. Let me start by categorically stating what you should never, ever do: rewrite everything [...] Read more
Revenue Traction Doesn’t Mean Product Market Fit
Fred Wilson – Mar 25, 2013
I recently had lunch with Mark Leslie, a successful entrepreneur and CEO, who now teaches at Stanford and works with startups, often as a board member. He told me about a paper he and a colleague published in Harvard Business [...] Read more
There is No Free Will (And That’s OK)
Albert Wenger – Mar 25, 2013
A couple of weeks ago I heard Brian Greene state there is no scientific basis for free will. It was a powerful statement because he made it quite categorically and tersely. And it really jolted me into thinking about this [...] Read more
GEL Conference is Back (to Life)
Albert Wenger – Mar 15, 2013
One of my favorite New York City conferences is back after taking a 1-year hiatus. GEL'13 will be on from April 17-19 with Thursday, April 18th being the main day for presentations. Fittingly, this year’s theme is “Back to Life” [...] Read more
Happy Pi Day!
Albert Wenger – Mar 14, 2013
It is easy for me to remember Pi Day because it also happens to be Susan’s birthday (Happy Birthday!). The digits of pi have some amazing properties and are fun to explore with kids as a great way of learning [...] Read more
Google Continuing to Invest in Deep Learning
Albert Wenger – Mar 13, 2013
Google just acquired DNNresearch, a spinoff company from the University of Toronto led by Geoffrey Hinton. The DNN in the company name stands for deep neural networks. As I have been learning from Professor Hinton’s online course, these are networks [...] Read more