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Nov 7, 2012

I was very happy to see President Obama win a second term last night. For starters it was gratifying that despite all sorts of last minute challenges this was not a close vote with hanging chads and damage to the [...] Read more

Nov 6, 2012

Last Tech Tuesday was now two weeks ago due to Hurricane Sandy. As a quick refresher, we looked at where the word algorithm comes from, saw that an algorithm is similar to a recipe and gave an example of a [...] Read more

Nov 5, 2012

Last weekend I wrote a post about what is happening with employment. The gist was that employment in the US in agriculture and manufacturing has collapsed as a percentage of total employment and declined even in absolute terms mostly as [...] Read more

Nov 2, 2012

As previously announced, I have self-published my MIT PhD thesis. Today’s post is about the first paper, which is titled “Information Technology and Firm Size” which – as the rather plain title suggests – examines statistical evidence of the impact [...] Read more

Nov 1, 2012

This post is a bit more thinking out loud than usual but I am grappling with what I perceive to be a big change in the startup landscape. Here are some of its symptoms: the return of TV, print and [...] Read more

Oct 31, 2012

Regular scheduled programming should return tomorrow. On Monday I posted how the storm surge was the biggest threat to New York City and that’s exactly what happened. There was definitely damage from wind blasts and also several people were killed [...] Read more

Oct 29, 2012

Our kids have been super excited since yesterday afternoon that school has been canceled for today. Waking up this morning and looking around they were a bit surprised to see that it seemed to be neither blowing nor even raining [...] Read more

Oct 27, 2012

One of the truly depressing things about listening to the presidential debates was that both sides seem to be disregarding a fundamental factor in the economy: the displacement of humans by “machines” (in quotes because these days the machines in [...] Read more

Oct 24, 2012

It seems as if Microsoft can’t catch a break any more. On the day that all the Surface reviews come out, Apple hogs the news with the iPad Mini launch. Then again, given that the reviews for the Surface are [...] Read more