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Nov 15, 2013
Writing this on a flight back from Vegas where Susan and I just attended Day 1 of the Women 2.0 conference – I will write a longer blog post about that when not crammed into an economy class seat on [...]
Nov 14, 2013
One of the amazing things that the Internet has given us is the ability for people all over the world to collaborate. At times we use this for silliness (supercuts of animal videos on YouTube) and at other times to [...]
Nov 14, 2013
Today’s post is over at USV.com and is announcing our investment in Human Dx. They are working on something that I first wrote about here on Continuations under the somewhat clumsy title The Next Frontier for Peer Production: Open Machine [...]
Nov 12, 2013
So far in the Tech Tuesday series on the theory of computation we have learned about Finite State Machines and their limitations, as well as the more general relationship between automata and languages. As a reminder, an automaton is a [...]
Nov 11, 2013
I have written a fair bit about climate change here on Continuations. It seems that in the US we have about a weeks worth of debate after a big storm such as Sandy and then it quickly dies down. So [...]
Nov 8, 2013
Last night Susan and I met up with friends of ours for dinner at Atera. The idea of spending several hundred dollars a person for dinner seemed more than a bit crazy to me but I was proven wrong: it [...]
Nov 7, 2013
Twitter is going public today. This is something many startups aspire to yet very few succeed in doing. My congratulations to everyone who has contributed to Twitter’s growth over the years. There are many people whose names will not be [...]
Nov 6, 2013
When we invested in Shapeways at USV, one of the trends we liked was that 3D design tools were getting cheaper and more accessible. I am happy to report that Tinkercad is now an amazing entry level and free tool [...]
Nov 5, 2013
In the last two Tech Tuesdays, I introduced Finite State Machines (FSM) and showed examples of both their usefulness and their limitation. Just as a reminder, we study computer science theory to get a handle on two fundamental questions: what [...]