A historical collection of our writing.
I became a US citizen in the mid 2000s (I have forgotten the exact year) and recently got called for the first time for jury duty. I am very excited about this as it is both a central part of the functioning of the judicial system (and hence civil society overall), as well as a […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The last few weeks in Tech Tuesday we have looked at various aspects of computational complexity. So far whenever we have looked at a sample problem, such as finding words on a web page, we have studied the characteristics of a particular algorithm for solving the problem (in many cases starting […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
A couple of days have passed since the news of the monster acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook broke. More people have written about it already than I can possibly link to so I won’t even try. My immediate reaction just based on financial metrics was that Facebook massively overpaid but I wasn’t […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I posted a few days ago revisiting the inflation versus deflation argument. I provided a very brief comment there on Then yesterday Marc Andreessen asked on Twitter about the arguments linking computers to deflation. I am sure others have data on this but here are some of the different vectors that […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
If a picture is a thousand words, then a video is a thousand pictures. Our brains seem built for extracting a huge amount of information from the shortest clips (and even animated gifs). Prior to smartphones capturing video was sort of a pain but now there is a Cambrian explosion of new recordings. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In March we will be going to Africa for a safari. We are all really excited about it. And of course as part of homeschooling we have been spending time preparing for the trip and learning about the countries we will visit (Kenya and Tanzania). In doing so I realized that I learned pretty much […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
