A historical collection of our writing.
A couple of weeks ago I heard Brian Greene state there is no scientific basis for free will. It was a powerful statement because he made it quite categorically and tersely. And it really jolted me into thinking about this longstanding philosophical problem that I hadn’t really spent much time […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
As more and more economic activity moves online, fraud is never far behind. Online fraud is in many ways more attractive to criminals as it can be committed at a safe distance from its targets and scales far better. It is therefore not surprising that online fraud has been growing rapidly, is well […] Read more
One of my favorite New York City conferences is back after taking a 1-year hiatus. GEL’13 will be on from April 17-19 with Thursday, April 18th being the main day for presentations. Fittingly, this year’s theme is “Back to Life” and GEL is taking place in a much smaller venue than before (so get […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
It is easy for me to remember Pi Day because it also happens to be Susan’s birthday (Happy Birthday!). The digits of pi have some amazing properties and are fun to explore with kids as a great way of learning about math. For instance, here you can search for any pattern in the first 200 […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Google just acquired DNNresearch, a spinoff company from the University of Toronto led by Geoffrey Hinton. The DNN in the company name stands for deep neural networks. As I have been learning from Professor Hinton’s online course, these are networks with multiple “hidden” layers of neurons. A […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last Tech Tuesday I offered some very rough guidelines for making technology choices in a startup. I was going to write today about how to evolve that over time, but one of the comments suggested that it would be great to pick something that won’t immediately require a massive rewrite if you hit […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
