Blog Posts by Albert Wenger

Jan 30, 2014

One of the many good things about blogging is that one can go back in time and look at one’s own thinking in a more objective way. Without putting it in writing it is all too easy to pretend, as [...]
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Jan 29, 2014

Today we will be filing our quarterly reports with the New York City Department of Education. In addition to the Individualized Home Instruction Plan (or IHIP), quarterly reports are one of the legal requirements for homeschooling in New York. The [...]
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Jan 28, 2014

Today’s Tech Tuesday will let you in on a bit of computer science secret language. Sometimes when discussing a solution to a problem an engineer will say something like “that’s too slow – it’s O of n squared” (that’s the [...]
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Jan 24, 2014

At DLD earlier this week I gave a talk that’s an illustrated and expanded version of my recent blog post about Entering the Information Age. And here are the slides, including a final slide with image credits (most images come [...]
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Jan 22, 2014

One of the many benefits of homeschooling is that it allows for fine grained quality control. With a school you are getting a complete bundle and if the math teacher is no good in a particular grade you are basically [...]
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Jan 21, 2014

Having grown up in Germany, I am well acquainted with “Datenschutz” or literally “data protection” – a set of attitudes, laws and regulations around how companies should deal with data collected from individuals. In the wake of the NSA disclosures [...]
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Jan 16, 2014

We live in the Chelsea part of Manhattan, which in turn is part of New York City, one of the iconic cities of the US and arguably the world. We have exactly one broadband provider available at our address. There [...]
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Jan 15, 2014

One of the great opportunities in homeschooling is the amazing access that now exists to classes online. Whether it is EdX, Coursera or Skillshare, there is a wealth of classes and it is growing seemingly by the hour. One advantage [...]
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Jan 14, 2014

In the last two Tech Tuesdays, I introduced the topic of computational complexity. Today as promised I want to dig a bit deeper into the question of best, average and worst case complexity. The canonical example used for this is [...]
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