What is Bitcoin?
My friend Karen Hao just published an article in Quartz describing how students today can mine cryptocurrency in their dormrooms. After...
Introduction to Machine Learning, Part 1
Over the holidays I read Machine Learning for Dummies: IBM Limited Edition, by Judith Hurwitz and Daniel Kirsch (please see full citation...
Articles List 21-26 Dec 2017
In addition to reading more news sites and blogs on robotics, I have decided to read more journal articles as well. I have heard that...
Bernoulli and Poiseuille
I recently read a paper by Cui et al which used Poiseuille's Law and Bernoulli's Principle to model the flow of aqueous humor through an...
Random Robotics Facts
For the past two days I have been reading Wikipedia articles and listening to The Robot Podcast as a way of getting a sense of where...
Getting to Know Robots...
Robotics is a fascinating area of technological development that I don't know very much about, so I am going to try to educate myself...
Reading List August - November 2017
I am still working slowly through Patrick Tyler's tome, A World of Trouble, on American foreign policy in the Middle East, but I did read...
Reading List May - July 2017
It's been a while since I've written a book review blog post and I've covered several books recently, so I wanted to capture them all in...
The Sewing Circles of Herat - Christina Lamb
I just finished Christina Lamb's book, The Sewing Circles of Herat, and it was a beautiful read from start to finish. The book explores...
Newsmaker - Patricia Beard
Patricia Beard's Newsmaker: Roy W. Howard, the Mastermind Behind the Scripps-Howard News Empire from the Gilded Age to the Atomic Age is...