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Uncertainty Wednesday: Limits on Observations (Resolution)
Albert Wenger – Sep 21, 2016
Today Uncertainty Wednesday continues with limits to observations. Limits to observations are — along with limits to explanations — the key sources of uncertainty that we face. Following the discussion of foundational limits to observations from last week, next up [...] Read more
I am Voting for Hillary
Albert Wenger – Sep 19, 2016
The 2016 Presidential race is not a typical election between two candidates based on the merits of their positions on key issues. Instead, it is a stark choice between Hillary Clinton, whose positions you may disagree with, but who is [...] Read more
Chelsea Bomb Explosion
Albert Wenger – Sep 18, 2016
Yesterday evening Susan, our older son Michael and I had just returned from dinner at a nearby restaurant when we heard a very loud boom and it felt like the windows and floor briefly shook. My immediate thought was that [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Limits on Observations
Albert Wenger – Sep 14, 2016
Last Uncertainty Wednesday I laid out the basic framework for understanding uncertainty: we use observations and explanations to have knowledge of reality. The degree of uncertainty we are facing results from the limits to our knowledge. Now I will start [...] Read more
ChangeX Launches in the US
Albert Wenger – Sep 12, 2016
Susan and I have been supporting ChangeX for a number of years. It is a nonprofit that helps people share and discover ways to improve the communities they live in. Since its launch Dublin based ChangeX has been growing rapidly [...] Read more
9/11 Visiting the Museum
Albert Wenger – Sep 11, 2016
Three years ago we went as a family to the 9/11 memorial which at the time was still surrounded by a fence. The museum had not yet opened. This year in June, when my mother was visiting from Germany, I [...] Read more
Shippo
Albert Wenger – Sep 9, 2016
Take a look around you, chances are, pretty much everything you see has been shipped, often multiple times, in order to get there. Transport of goods is a massive industry. Global parcel shipping alone is worth $300 Billion. With the shift [...] Read more
Shippo: API for Shipping
Albert Wenger – Sep 9, 2016
Today’s blog post is over at USV announcing our investment in Shippo. I have written previously about how the future of programming will consist of composing applications from different APIs. We already have quite a few building blocks in our [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Reality, Explanations, Observations
Albert Wenger – Sep 7, 2016
Understanding uncertainty, and even more so explaining it, is hard is because it requires a foundational framework — the reason that most explanations feel isolated is that they avoid this initial step. Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday post is my first cut [...] Read more