Blog AF

• After The Gold Rush
  Jon Evans - TechCrunch
  
• Is deep learning a Markov chain in disguise?
  Brian Lee Yung Rowe - R-Bloggers
  
• The Twitter Contradiction
  Fred Wilson - AVC
  
• The City States of Europe
  Frank Jacobs - Big Think
  
• Why Coincidences Happen and What They Mean
  Julie Beck - The Atlantic
  
• Dad’s company made burgers. Mine just eats them
  James Somers - Aeon
  
• MentalHealthError: an exception occurred.
  Kenneth Reitz
  
• Trump Tweets on a Globe
  Joel Grus
  

It seems like this is a good reading week for me. A ton of articles, plus about to finish two books. Can’t complain.

• Here’s Why Bernie Sanders’ 5% Growth Plan Isn’t Crazy After All
  Mark Thoma - The Fiscal Times
  
• A Former Homeless Man’s Perspective into Homelessness in San Francisco
  Jeffrey Wilson - LinkedIn
  
• Trust and Democracy: The Odd Parallels between Trump and Apple
  Albert Wenger - Continuations
  
• Inequality Against Freedom
  Chris Dillow - Stumbling and Mumbling
  
• The end of the establishment?
  Robert B. Reich - Baltimore Sun
  
• LinkedIn Problems Run Deeper Than Valuation
  Damian Kimmelman - TechCrunch
  

• The Savannah
  Henry George - Wealth and Want
  
• Apple, the FBI, and Security
  Ben Thompson - Stratechery
  
• The U.S. has Gone F&*%ing Mad
  James Allworth - Medium
  
• The Scold
  Nick Paumgarten - The New Yorker
  
• Inside the Artificial Universe That Creates Itself
  Roc Morin - The Atlantic
  
• What’s Next in Computing?
  Chris Dixon - Medium
  
• Codeology, a GitHub visualization
  Braintree
  

• We’re in a brave, new post open source world
  Nadia Eghbal - Medium
  
• Peak Paper
  John Quiggin
  
• Infix Operators in Python
  Tomer Filiba
  
• Given that Trump is winning, which other views should we update?
  Tyler Cowen - Marginal Revolution
  
• GitHub lock-in?
  Aurélien Gâteau
  
• Mobile, smartphones and hindsight
  Benedict Evans
  
• How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls
  Isoroku Yamamoto
  
• Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake
• Is Kayne West leveraging monopoly power?
  Joshua Gans - Digitopoly
  
• Assisted Drawing
  Samim Winiger - Medium
  
• If company slogans were honest
  Joe Bagel - Medium
  

• What Most People Don't Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued
  Mark Suster - Both Sides of the Table
  
• 10 years ago they beat MIT. Today, it's complicated
  Richard Ruelas - Arizona Republic
  
• The Dream of the 90s
  Noah Smith - Noahpinion
  
• The Curse Of The Gifted Programmer
  Eric S. Raymond - linux-kernel mailing list, in response to Linus Torvalds
  
• The Yahoo Problem
  Sapan Bhuta
  
• Why Schools Need to Introduce Computing in All Subjects
  Uri Wilensky - The Conversation
  
• Building a Bridge Between Engineering and the Humanities
  Julio M. Ottino and Gary Saul Morson - The Chronicle of Higher Education
  
• I no longer understand my PhD dissertation (and what this means for Mathematics Education)
  Junaid Mubeen - Medium
  
• How small is the world, really?
  Duncan Watts - Medium
  
• Vanguard's Low Blow
  Justin Fox - Bloomberg View
  
• Training a Recurrent Neural Network to Compose Music
  Manuel Araoz
  
• Sense2vec with spaCy and Gensim
  Matthew Honnibal - spaCy