More than a million new book titles are published each year. Few people have the time to read even 0.01% of that number each year. Blinkist is a book summary service that has condensed over 3,000 of the most impactful non-fiction books into summaries that take about 15 minutes to read. I maintain a list […]
Blinkist Roundup, Volume VI
More than a million new book titles are published each year. Few people have the time to read even 0.01% of that number each year. Blinkist is a book summary service that has condensed over 3,000 of the most impactful non-fiction books into summaries that take about 15 minutes to read. I maintain a list […]
Timed Encryption
There has been a lot of talk about how quantum computers may break all of our current encryption algorithms. But there are ways to develop encryption algorithms that can’t be easily cracked by quantum computers. I’m not going to pretend that I know much about encryption. I have undergraduate degrees in computer science and mathematics, […]
Making the Olympics Count
In 2003, Major League Baseball began an experiment that lasted over a decade. They gave home field advantage in the World Series to the side that won the All-Star Game. Up until 2002, the All-Star Game was played just for fun as an exhibition game and a treat for the fans. But in recent years, […]
Alert-Based Computing
Everyone has a smartphone these days, and every company developing for smartphones is competing for your attention. It’s no wonder so many people struggle with focus. On the internet, there are two main methods of getting data: push and pull. When you load a web page, you’re pulling the data from the internet servers. When […]
A Four-Dimensional Internet
Information on the internet today is arranged three-dimensionally, much like the information in a library. In a library, you look up the location of a particular book with the information you need. You go to that location and find the book, then you open the book and find the page with the information you need. […]