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Dec 13, 2017

At our house we were all refreshing our computers furiously starting at 8pm with ever increasing excitement as the evening progressed. We were absolutely thrilled when Doug Jones victory was certain. If Doug Jones can win in Alabama, the state... Read more

Dec 12, 2017

Later this week the FCC Commission is expected to vote along party lines to do away with net neutrality in the US. I have written extensively about why net neutrality is important for innovation. I will not rehash any of... Read more

Dec 11, 2017

Planes fly differently from birds. Cars move differently from horses. And computers think differently from humans. That had always been my assumption but if you needed more proof, Google’s AlphaZero program, which had previously shown novel ways of playing Go,... Read more

Dec 8, 2017

One of the objections against crypto currencies has been their volatility. Bitcoin for instance just rose by about 60% over 2 days only to then fall by about 15% in a matter of hours. Steam just ended bitcoin support citing... Read more

Dec 6, 2017

Last Uncertainty Wednesday provided a recap on our adventures with sample means and what those implied about the difficulties of inference. Now we will look at another equally fascinating complication: inferring volatility. As the title of this initial post gives... Read more

Dec 5, 2017

[This is a talk I was going to give at Slush but had to change my travel plans.] A 12 minute talk should be plenty to address this simple question. Just kidding. This is one of the profound questions that... Read more

Nov 27, 2017

Over the holiday weekend I did a lot of driving in a loaner Tesla (we have ordered one ourselves but it is, ahem, delayed). Well, actually, the car did a lot of the driving. I made extensive use of... Read more

Nov 22, 2017

Just imagine for a moment the world we can easily find ourselves in. You love my series of blog posts called “Uncertainty Wednesday” but when you try to access it instead of seeing the content, you receive a notice from... Read more

Nov 20, 2017

I have mentioned here on Continuations before that we have been home schooling our children. The main reason for doing so is to give them plenty of time to pursue their interests. Interests that over time can deepen into passions... Read more