A historical collection of our writing.
Today we will be filing our quarterly reports with the New York City Department of Education. In addition to the Individualized Home Instruction Plan (or IHIP), quarterly reports are one of the legal requirements for homeschooling in New York. The report that we actually send in to the DOE is the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Today’s Tech Tuesday will let you in on a bit of computer science secret language. Sometimes when discussing a solution to a problem an engineer will say something like “that’s too slow – it’s O of n squared” (that’s the letter “O” not a zero). What does it mean? Well it is a shorthand way […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Over the holiday, I was visiting my mother on the upper east side of Manhattan. To get to her place from the subway I needed to cross 86th Street at 3rd Avenue. I’ve been crossing that street since I was 5 years old, it’s a horribly crowded corner. On the east side of the street […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
At DLD earlier this week I gave a talk that’s an illustrated and expanded version of my recent blog post about Entering the Information Age. And here are the slides, including a final slide with image credits (most images come form flickr are CC licensed): Looking forward to comments and […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
One of the many benefits of homeschooling is that it allows for fine grained quality control. With a school you are getting a complete bundle and if the math teacher is no good in a particular grade you are basically out of luck. In homeschooling on the other hand you can switch to a new […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Having grown up in Germany, I am well acquainted with “Datenschutz” or literally “data protection” – a set of attitudes, laws and regulations around how companies should deal with data collected from individuals. In the wake of the NSA disclosures there has been a lot of debate about how to further […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
