A historical collection of our writing.
We live in the Chelsea part of Manhattan, which in turn is part of New York City, one of the iconic cities of the US and arguably the world. We have exactly one broadband provider available at our address. There is zero competition. Never mind an oligopoly or a duopoly. Broadband for us is a […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
One of the great opportunities in homeschooling is the amazing access that now exists to classes online. Whether it is EdX, Coursera or Skillshare, there is a wealth of classes and it is growing seemingly by the hour. One advantage of this emerging system that I had not considered before is that […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In the last two Tech Tuesdays, I introduced the topic of computational complexity. Today as promised I want to dig a bit deeper into the question of best, average and worst case complexity. The canonical example used for this is sorting. For simplicity we will assume that we are sorting a list of […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Here on Continuations I have covered a lot of seemingly disparate topics such as the end of work, government surveillance and the digital balkans. They are, however, all part of my fascination with the transition from the industrial age to the information age. While that latter term was coined all […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
For the New Year, I tweeted that we should “ll work together in 2014 to keep the Internet open for the benefit of humankind everywhere.” That couldn’t be any more pressing as there is a full scale assault under way and we don’t seem to be doing much about it. First, thanks to Edward Snowden […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
My house ain’t done, but it’s alright, floors ain’t level, but I ain’t some suburbanite. Who cares about bathroom tiles, straight lines and building codes and Chinese wind chimes. My house ain’t done, but it’s fine, come out here from time to time, in December for the snow and in July to watch the […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
