I’ve given three public talks in the last six months. What really strikes me is how different these talks were, in content, structure, and intent. The first talk was at Sprout, during one of their spaghetti dinners, which are festive occasions thrown monthly and organized around a particular theme. This month’s theme was brains: my [...]
Over the past few months I’ve gotten involved with the Sunlight Foundation, a DC-based non profit that works to increase government openness primarily using internet technology. They’ve got a couple of great APIs for interfacing with voting and financial information, and some neat projects that make the mass of data available in an intuitive way [...]
I’ve been tutoring a friend of a friend in Matlab, and we spent a good hour this afternoon chasing down a bug in his program. He asked how I can stand it, the constant trouble-shooting spiced up by the occasional epic search for a minor flaw*. “Doesn’t it drive you crazy?” he asked. And no, [...]
