Sep 29, 2020
Recently there was a minor controversy over a blogpost from Coinbase’s CEO discouraging employees from thinking about politics, and encouraging them to focus on profit-making. I really appreciated this …
May 3, 2020
A platform for hamburgers. Think GrubHub. In this note, we’ll try to understand what is a platform, and whether they can be improved with a “coop” structure.
In particular, we’ll try to understand: …
May 25, 2016
There’s a famous dubious argument that “proves” the set of $\mathrm{Tree}$ of (planar, rooted) binary trees is in bijection with the set of $7$-tuples of trees $\mathrm{Tree}^6$.
The argument …
Jan 18, 2016
The ideas, knowledge, beliefs, laws and regulations, etc. contained in a culture would be the genetic instructions ordering the use of exosomatic energy. – p. 262
This is a good point and a nice way of …
Jan 18, 2016
I’ve often heard people say that the interesting part of number theory is the interaction between addition and multiplication, but I only yesterday realized one reason why that is, triggered by convincing …