Colabopad

There is increasing controversy around whether someone used AI or not in their writing.

I find the outrage machine around the Jeffery Epstein "revelations" (in the same way Harvey Weinstein was a revelation, ie everybody knew) mostly to be unconvincing, not least because it conveniently ignores the reality of our society as it relates to sex,

James Damore's memo has been all the rage on the internet lately, both for and against.

It is now universally acknowledged that basic password authentication does not offer sufficient security. 2-Factor authentication is a major improvement and hopefully would become the standard form of authentication over time.

For the past 5+ years I have tried all sorts of technical contraptions in an effort to create the ultimate media box.

A couple of weeks ago I decided to buy my first tablet.

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The process of mining Bitcoins is meant to emulate the process of mining precious metals.

I love New York but one thing that has always bothered me about the city is the general crappiness of the subway system.

This sim shows the various sorting algorithms that one may encounter in intro to computer science classes.

This is a skeleton implementation of the PhET Sim for a Pendulum Lab.

ColaboPad is now SimuPad.

Oh how much difference a few short years make...I don't work for Google and don't know anyone who does, but I imagine there has to be some discontent within Google about the company's seeming inability to make successful products.

For some time now I have thought about the cost of higher education and who should be paying it.

Recently I was wondering about the disjoint between the high-minded message that hot startups engage in versus how they actually behave.

First, it is important to separate the two types of software developers, those for whom writing code is merely a path to a paycheck (nothing wrong with that) and those of us who devote more time beyond 9-5 to personal projects.

I will be using this blog to get questions and feedback from users..