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Thanksgiving Thoughts
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Not only is there no gift giving madness but it is great to be reminded that I have much to thankful for. Last year I wrote a post thanking my parents. This year I want [...]
Homeschool Wednesday: Math and Beauty
Two previous Homeschool Wednesdays covered the relationship between math and beauty as a different way of motivating the study of math. My first presentation was on spirals and the second one on waves. In each case the main point I [...]
Tech Tuesday: Theory of Computation
The current sequence of Tech Tuesday posts is about the theory of computation. We have already seen that a simple model of computation such as the Finite State Machine is very useful but has severe limitations in that it [...]
Robotics Trends
In my personal public markets portfolio I am long a number of robotics companies because I see robotics as one of the big secular trends that’s investible. As we are getting more and more robots in different form factors (including [...]
Holiday Shopping Reflection
I am a bit of a grinch around the holidays as I really don’t like getting more stuff. As a result I am also not all that excited about buying stuff for other people. Thankfully this year there is a [...]
IPO Insights
Facebook goes public and its stock declines. Commentators write that investors should have known it was overpriced. Twitter goes public and its stock pops. Commentators write that the company left money on the table. Not nearly enough people though remark [...]
Future of Higher Education Discussion
Today I will be participating in a discussion at NYU on the future of higher education. The panel that I will be on has been given the following questions: "Do universities provide good value for money today? What are the [...]
Turing Machines Overview
Last Tech Tuesday as part of my series on the theory of computation I introduced the Turing Machine. Just to refresh your memory, the Turing Machine is essentially a Finite State Machine connected to an infinite tape for storage. And [...]
Snapchat Acquisition Rumors
One of the rumors from last week was that Snapchat turned down an acquisition offer from Facebook valued at $3 billion. As always in these situations (cf Groupon) one doesn’t know whether such an offer really existed or how firm [...]