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Jul 6, 2012

Growing up in Germany I learned a lot about a legal system in which judges are only applying the law not also making it through their decisions. Precedent plays a very limited roll in the German system. It took me [...] Read more

Jul 2, 2012

Some fine folks have been hard at work to draft a Declaration of Internet Freedom. I couldn’t agree more with the preamble: So please go and read the Declaration. If you agree with it, you can sign it by following [...] Read more

Jun 29, 2012

On July 11 at noon I will be teaching my Skillshare class on Bayesian Probability and a Theory of Life again. I am really looking forward to doing so for a bunch of different reasons. First, I really enjoyed teaching [...] Read more

Jun 27, 2012

Google has been showing off a lot of neat goodies at Google I/O. But the most interesting announcement as far as I can tell of the day is the availability of Chrome for Android. The existing Android browser is relatively [...] Read more

Jun 25, 2012

This weekend marked the celebration of Alan Turing’s 100th birthday. Turing was one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century and made major contributions to cryptanalysis and started the theory of computability. He died shortly before his 42nd birthday [...] Read more

Jun 21, 2012

About 3 years ago, I wrote how phone numbers might be an important part of mobile identity. I started to change my mind on this last year. Now I am thinking that phone numbers may in fact much more rapidly [...] Read more

Jun 20, 2012

Yesterday my partner Brad announced our investment in Duolingo. Duolingo is an ambitious attempt to provide free language learning and use all the work by the learners to provide a translation service. You can watch Luis von Ahn’s TED Talk [...] Read more

Jun 19, 2012

This will be the third and final part of talking about data types as part of the programming cycle on Tech Tuesdays. Part 1 introduced the basic issue. Part 2 went under the hood and showed how explicit type declarations [...] Read more

Jun 18, 2012

I love what I do as a VC at USV. Being involved with many different companies each with unique opportunities and challenges is absolutely amazing. But it does mean that I have very little time to build things myself. So [...] Read more