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Last Uncertainty

April 5, 2017

Last Uncertainty Wednesday, I introduced sensitivity and specificity as measures of how good a test is (or using the language of our framework, how strong a signal is). We derived the following formula P(B | H) = P(B)/P(H) * P(H [...] Read more

Human Needs

April 3, 2017

In my draft book World After Capital, I have a section on Human Needs. I am currently in the middle of rewriting that section (so don’t go read it now) because it suffers in parts from a confusion between needs [...] Read more

Climate Action

April 1, 2017

As regular readers of Continuations know, I believe humanity urgently needs to act on climate change. In this context it is particularly appalling that the current administration wants to unwind the advances of the Clean Power Plan. The atmosphere is [...] Read more

Technology Duality

March 31, 2017

In my book World After Capital, I open with a section on the duality of technology: since the days of inventing fire we can use technology for good and for bad. The technology itself simply broadens the space of what’s [...] Read more

PSA Test Example Continuation

March 29, 2017

Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday is a further continuation of the PSA Test example, but I got tired of the boring title and wanted to give the post a more, well, specific one. Last Wednesday I wrote that sensitivity and specificity are [...] Read more

Email Insights

March 27, 2017

A non trivial part of my time is spent reading and writing a lot of email. Here are some things that I have learned and that work for me. There are only two legitimate uses for bcc. First, explicitly moving [...] Read more

ISPs and Customer Data

March 24, 2017

Yesterday the Republican-controlled Senate voted to allow ISPs to sell customer data including browsing history without prior customer consent. I tweeted that in response it is “Time to tunnel all home traffic through a proxy.” First let me explain for [...] Read more

Bitcoin Investment

March 20, 2017

I became interested in Bitcoin reasonably early and was fortunate to invest in some early mining (although as with all good investments in retrospect not nearly enough). There is currently a fight brewing in the Bitcoin world with the possibility of [...] Read more

Opposition to Trump

March 17, 2017

The publication of the budget is a good moment to revisit my personal opposition to Trump. If you have read my draft book “World After Capital” you know that I want a lot of change. Much of the changes that [...] Read more