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Homeschool Wednesday

Mar 5, 2014

This will be the last Homeschool Wednesday post for quite some time. Not just because we will be going away on a trip to Africa but when we come back I will switch Continuations around a bit. I will use [...] Read more

Tech Tuesday

Mar 4, 2014

Last Tech Tuesday, we looked at complexity classes which group problems by their intrinsic difficult. There we encountered one of the great unsolved questions of Computer Science. Is P = NP? The class P is easy to define. It is [...] Read more

Business Strategies

Mar 3, 2014

I am generally not a big fan of strategies that involve pursuing business A now in order to pursue B in the future. I tend to believe that you should go for B right away. For example, if you are [...] Read more

Angel Investing

Feb 28, 2014

Later this morning I am participating in a panel called “Angel Investing in Action” at the 2014 Pipeline Fellowship Conference here in NY. The goal of the Pipeline Fellowship is to have more women angel investors (currently only about 1 [...] Read more

Jury Duty Follow Up

Feb 27, 2014

I posted yesterday in Homeschool Wednesday about my first time at jury duty. Here is a quick follow up. It turns out I wasn’t chosen for either of the two trials that were under consideration and surprisingly wasn’t asked to [...] Read more

Jury Duty Experience

Feb 26, 2014

I became a US citizen in the mid 2000s (I have forgotten the exact year) and recently got called for the first time for jury duty. I am very excited about this as it is both a central part of [...] Read more

Computational Complexity

Feb 25, 2014

The last few weeks in Tech Tuesday we have looked at various aspects of computational complexity. So far whenever we have looked at a sample problem, such as finding words on a web page, we have studied the characteristics of [...] Read more

Facebook and WhatsApp

Feb 24, 2014

A couple of days have passed since the news of the monster acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook broke. More people have written about it already than I can possibly link to so I won’t even try. My immediate reaction just [...] Read more

Computers and Deflation

Feb 19, 2014

I posted a few days ago revisiting the inflation versus deflation argument. I provided a very brief comment there on Then yesterday Marc Andreessen asked on Twitter about the arguments linking computers to deflation. I am sure others have data [...] Read more