A historical collection of our writing.
Last Tech Tuesday, I introduced programming languages by making a series of analogies to human languages. We will continue the programming cycle today by deepening that analogy with regard to syntax. Syntax is the set of rules that describe how you can put together the words of a language to form a […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Companies across our portfolio are spending a lot of resources on suppressing various types of undesirable behavior ranging from comment spam to outright financial fraud. Much of this could be avoided through a probabilistic identity system. I have written about this idea before, but nobody has […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Just read a wonderful essay in the New York Review of Books from Jason Epstein – “How Books Will Survive Publishing.” Mr. Epstein looks at the current conflict between Amazon and books publishers and Apple, over the prices of e-books, and uses that to step outside and look at the real conflict […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
I don’t know whether to be upset or happy about the machinations that went on yesterday and resulted in the House passing CISPA with a 248-168 vote. There were critical last minute changes to the bill that vastly enhance the government’s ability to use the data for things other than national […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
On Tuesday we held a wonderful one day event at the USV offices with the title: Hacking Society. The basic premise was relatively simple. Networks are a emerging on the Internet that are disrupting existing hierarchical institutions. Starting from that premise there were lots of angles to explore, […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Today we are excited to bring together a group of thinkers and doers to USV to discuss how networks are transforming our society and economy […] Read more
