Blog Posts by Albert Wenger

Jan 13, 2014

Here on Continuations I have covered a lot of seemingly disparate topics such as the end of work, government surveillance and the digital balkans. They are, however, all part of my fascination with the transition from the industrial age to ...

Jan 9, 2014

For the New Year, I tweeted that we should “ll work together in 2014 to keep the Internet open for the benefit of humankind everywhere." That couldn’t be any more pressing as there is a full scale assault under way ...

Jan 8, 2014

At the end of last year before going away for the holidays, I laid out a miniature program for learning / teaching about rates of change. The first step was to appreciate the tremendous difference between linear and exponential change. ...

Jan 7, 2014

Last year’s Tech Tuesday ended with a first look at computational complexity. We saw how crazily long a brute force attempt to find a 40 character string would take. This was the result of exponential growth in the runtime of ...

Jan 6, 2014

Belated Happy New Year everyone. Today I am traveling back to New York – weather and air traffic permitting – after a great family ski vacation in Colorado. As announced at the end of last year I took a break ...

Dec 20, 2013

This will most likely be my last blog post for the year. I am planning to take off a couple weeks not just from writing but also from spending pretty much any time online. During this time I look forward ...

Dec 19, 2013

I am sympathetic to Uber’s basic argument that surge pricing is the market at work as (a) nobody is being forced to take an Uber and (b) raising prices puts more Ubers out on the street. On Saturday evening, close ...

Dec 18, 2013

In case you come here only on Wednesdays when I write about homeschooling, you might also want to check out Tech Tuesdays (a series that goes back several years). In yesterday’s Tech Tuesday I wrote about computational complexity and gave [...] (https://continuations.com/post/70383538655/homeschool-wednesday-rates-of-change)

Dec 17, 2013

So far in the Tech Tuesday series on the theory of computer science we have covered questions of computability. We have looked at ways of formalizing computation through abstract machines such as the Finite State Machine and the Turing Machine [...] (https://continuations.com/post/70320144246/tech-tuesday-computational-complexity)