Japan 2017
Japan A few notes I took on a recent trip. Before you go Follow Tokyo Fixer on Instagram. At minimum he will get you excited. If he inspires you, he has the time and you have the budget, apparently he’ll…
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The simple truth is, not all of us become the men we once hoped we might be. But we are all God’s creatures. If there are those among us who thought ill of Mr. Hollom, or spoke ill of him,…
The Reverse Turing Test
I’m always fascinated by the subtle ways in which our otherwise insightful predictions about the future are nonetheless totally wrong. The famous Turing Test is paraphrased as “can you tell it’s a robot?” In the ad tech business (and many…
Setting up a new mac
I bought a new iMac recently and figured it would be worthwhile to write down everything I did to get it to where I wanted it. Install bootstraps: Chrome – Preferred browser Iterm2 – Terminal Homebrew – The missing package manager Atom – Text…
Computational Fluid Dynamics take a leap
People ask me all the time what work is being done that I find exciting. Honestly it’s a little harder than it used to be. The simultaneous emergence of cloud infrastructure providers and mobile hardware created a cambrian explosion of…
Unevenly spaced time series analysis
A number of years ago I bought a Withings connected scale. It’s great. You get on every morning, it logs your weight and uploads it to the internet where it can be analyzed. Recently, I decided to use the Withing…
Tesla, Autopilot and Data Collection
f I were going to build a self-driving car, I’d want to have a large corpus of field data. What situations come up most commonly? How do humans handle them? How might our computer react in a similar situation? Google’s…
Bitcasa, snake oil, etc
I’ve watched with some amusement the controversy between CrunchFund and TechCrunch and whether Mike Arrington can successfully / fairly cover the startups that he writes about / promotes. On the general question, I have no idea, and I do think…
Apple + OnLive?
Big software companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple and even Facebook have a ton of cash on their balance sheet. Whenever investors start pressuring them to dividend some of that cash to shareholders, the ready answer is always that they’re hanging…
Keyboard modified clicks
In case you’re ever wondering, here is a full list of the “key modified clicks” that the major browsers look for: (Note that on Windows, “cmd” is “ctrl”) Chrome, Firefox: shift: new active window cmd: new tab cmd-shift: new active tab…
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Wash. man electrocuted by urinating on power line March 2, 2010 – Possibly the most gruesome way to go that I can imagine.
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Vancouver Now – Emergency shipment of condoms headed to Olympic athletes – Post Sports February 26, 2010 – Canada is awesome!
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Ex-Goldman programmer indicted over HFT code theft | Reuters February 18, 2010 – Who wants to bet that this case never goes to trial? There will be a settlement involving the perpetrator agreeing to never describe what this code actually…
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School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home Boing Boing February 18, 2010 – This is pretty creepy and fits in to my “hypothetical attacks we talked about in Grad school are very real” theme.…
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Mozilla Debates Whether to Trust Chinese CA | Freedom to Tinker February 17, 2010 – It’s amazing when these esoteric technical issues we talked about in grad school turn out to be real-life issues. What if the certificate authority is…
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BBC News – Warner retreats from free music streaming February 10, 2010 – Surprise, Surprise. Just as streaming music sites like Pandora look to be turning the corner, here come the music labels to move the goal posts. Again. In…
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How Facebook uses Erlang for real-time chat – Off the Grid!! February 8, 2010 – This is a somewhat old blog post from a Facebook engineer describing how they engineered the chat system in Erlang. It’s notable because it contains…
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On College Campuses, a Shortage of Men – NYTimes.com February 6, 2010 – Hmm, not what I remember…
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Backing out of a term sheet cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog February 5, 2010 – Chris Dixon flexes some muscle. Hardcore.
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The disrupted of Davos « BuzzMachine February 5, 2010 – Very interesting view of the WEF
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12+1 Signs That You Have Founderitis – GigaOM February 3, 2010 – Om Malik on Founderitis
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Shared Items – January 30, 2010
Dear MBAs who want to work at startups | from This is going to be BIG! – Comments on New York Tech Community, Startups, Venture Capital and Career Education January 30, 2010 – Charlie O’Donnell, EIR at First Round Capital…
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The Twitter Curve
An awesome and pretty self-explanatory graph from an awesome blog I just got sent. It’s three years old so I guess I’m just behind the times. (MySpace? What’s that?)
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Conan Blowing NBC's Money, Spends $1.5 Million For One Minute Segment (VIDEO) January 21, 2010 – Conan sticks it to NBC by doing a comedy bit with a Bugatti Veyron ($1.0m car) and by playing a clip from the Rolling…