December 2010
5 posts
NASA\'s Internet in the Classroom Video - The... →
A reminder of the power of the internet…especially in the minds of early 90s students. No small thing that everyone quoted lives in silicon valley, but let’s ignore that for the moment
The REAL ‘Stuff White People Like’ « OkTrends →
Perhaps the best use of data analysis I’ve ever seen.
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Of Tax Cuts and Proton Micropiles
I had drinks with my friend Alex last night. As it often does, we started talking about the Fed, Wall Street, economic turmoil…and physics. Or, more precisely, we started discussing how insane it is that the best and brightest in the country go work on Wall Street instead of at JPL, or CalTech, or even Skunkworks.
I brought up an incident I remember from the heart of the financial crisis....
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Who am I? Identity in the cloud and the new...
I’ve always had my fair share of nightmares (literal, here…you know, wake up in a cold sweat kind of thing). They ranged from the truly terrifying upon waking (big big dangerous spiders), to the nearly farcical - trapped in a cage of excel? Yep, that happened several times and probably reflects some of the pain I experienced as an entry level investment banker.
Every time one of these...
