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The Trouble with Emoji
Albert Wenger – Jul 22, 2019
I know several wonderful people involved with the process of creating new emoji and occasionally see them celebrating an addition. I understand the motivation for representing more people, such as the recent addition of interskintone couples. And yet, each time [...] Read more
10x Engineers
Albert Wenger – Jul 18, 2019
A recent series of tweets about identifying 10x software engineers set off a lot of making fun of the author for perpetuating a myth. Given the wording of the tweets too they made a particularly easy target (I can’t actually [...] Read more
10x Engineers
Albert Wenger – Jul 18, 2019
A recent series of tweets about identifying 10x software engineers set off a lot of making fun of the author for perpetuating a myth. Given the wording of the tweets too they made a particularly easy target (I can’t actually [...] Read more
Blockstack Reg A Token Sale
Albert Wenger – Jul 15, 2019
Our portfolio company Blockstack is the first company to have received qualification from the SEC to sell a crypto token in an offering to the general public. The Reg A Stacks token sale is now live and you can learn [...] Read more
Cartoon Humor Test for AGI
Albert Wenger – Jul 10, 2019
I wrote a post nearly four years ago titled Brief Q&A on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which has held up pretty well. Despite a lot of progress in specific domains since then there is no obvious sign that AGI is [...] Read more
Otis
Albert Wenger – Jul 9, 2019
Museums are a wonderful way to see art and to make art accessible to the public. On the opposite spectrum of accessibility are private collections, locked away in the homes, or sometimes simply the storage facilities, of collectors. Even for [...] Read more
Universal Basic Income: An Introduction
Albert Wenger – Jul 1, 2019
Here is the text of a speech I gave at the 72nd Annual NYU Labor Conference, which this year was on AI and Automation. Unfortunately there is no recording - I stuck relatively closely to this, but didn’t read it. ———- [...] Read more
Universal Basic Income: An Introduction
Albert Wenger – Jul 1, 2019
Here is the text of a speech I gave at the 72nd Annual NYU Labor Conference, which this year was on AI and Automation. Unfortunately there is no recording - I stuck relatively closely to this, but didn’t read it. [...] Read more
Babylon Berlin
Albert Wenger – Jun 26, 2019
One of the reasons I get a fair bit of reading done is that I avoid watching lots of television. On a flight to Germany last week though, I got sucked into watching Babylon Berlin. The series is set in [...] Read more