A historical collection of our writing.
Planes fly differently from birds. Cars move differently from horses. And computers think differently from humans. That had always been my assumption but if you needed more proof, Google’s AlphaZero program, which had previously shown novel ways of playing Go, has just learned how to play chess […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
One of the objections against crypto currencies has been their volatility. Bitcoin for instance just rose by about 60% over 2 days only to then fall by about 15% in a matter of hours. Steam just ended bitcoin support citing volatility. This has led a number of teams on the quest to create a so […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last Uncertainty Wednesday provided a recap on our adventures with sample means and what those implied about the difficulties of inference. Now we will look at another equally fascinating complication: inferring volatility. As the title of this initial post gives away, we will see that it is easy […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
[This is a talk I was going to give at Slush but had to change my travel plans.] A 12 minute talk should be plenty to address this simple question. Just kidding. This is one of the profound questions that humanity has grappled with for a long time. Here are three artistic takes throughout history. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Over the holiday day weekend I did a lot of driving in a loaner Tesla (we have ordered one ourselves but it is, ahem, delayed). Well, actually, the car did a lot of the driving. I made extensive use of “Autopilot” features, including the smart cruise control and the autosteering. New cars by other […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Just imagine for a moment the world we can easily find ourselves in. You love my series of blog posts called “Uncertainty Wednesday” but when you try to access it instead of seeing the content, you receive a notice from you ISP (the company you pay to access the Internet), that Continuations is not […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
