Posts

• Mar 29, 2026

  Implementing Active Ranking

• Feb 7, 2026

  Reinventing the Wheel

• Dec 14, 2025

  The Pairwise Paradigm

• Aug 3, 2025

  Exploring Deep Funding's Jury Data

• Nov 17, 2024

  Tech in the Age of AI

• Nov 18, 2023

  Understanding Generative Art

• Jul 4, 2020

  Los Angeles

• Apr 19, 2020

  Sharing the Wealth

• Apr 4, 2020

  A Review of 'Gaming the Vote'

• Dec 13, 2019

  A Mild Critique of Quadratic Funding

• Jun 16, 2019

  Aragon, DAOstack, Colony, Moloch

• May 8, 2019

  Against Voting

• Mar 25, 2019

  To Bounty or Not To Bounty

• Sep 28, 2018

  Blockchain Governance

• Jul 4, 2018

  Trie, Merkle, Patricia: A Blockchain Story

• Jun 29, 2018

  Reputation Systems: Promise and Peril

• May 22, 2018

  Scala's Thrift-Flatmap Pattern

• Mar 20, 2018

  The Future of Housing, in Three Parts

• Mar 16, 2018

  Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake: a Mirror of History

• Feb 8, 2018

  Introducing Talmud

• Oct 22, 2017

  The Economics of Urban Farming

• Sep 14, 2017

  Time and Authority

• May 29, 2017

  On Meaning in Games

• Mar 28, 2017

  Objective Functions in Machine Learning

• Feb 6, 2017

  Master's Thesis

• Oct 4, 2016

  A Basic Computing Curriculum

• May 19, 2016

  The Problem of Information II

• Apr 16, 2016

  The Problem of Information

• Mar 3, 2016

  Elements of Modern Computing

• Jan 11, 2016

  Blockchain as Talmud

• Nov 22, 2015

  Understanding Variational Inference

• Nov 10, 2015

  OpsWorks, Flask, and Chef

• Oct 25, 2015

  On Learning Some Math

• Aug 11, 2015

  Understanding Unix Permissions

• Jul 20, 2015

  30 Feet from Michael Bloomberg

• May 23, 2015

  The Academy: A Machine Learning Framework

• Apr 28, 2015

  Setting up a queue service: Django, RabbitMQ, Celery on AWS

• Feb 24, 2015

  Versioning and Orthogonality in an API

• Aug 15, 2014

  Designing to be Subclassed

• Aug 14, 2014

  Understanding Contexts in Flask

• Jul 29, 2014

  Setting up Unit Tests with Flask, SQLAlchemy, and Postgres

• Jul 28, 2014

  Understanding Package Imports in Python

• Jul 22, 2014

  Setting up Virtual Environments in Python

• Jul 16, 2014

  Creating superfunctions in Python

• Jul 9, 2014

  Some Recent Adventures

• Jun 13, 2014

  Sorting in pandas

• May 13, 2014

  Mimicking DCI through Integration Tests

• May 10, 2014

  From Ruby to Python

• May 5, 2014

  Self-Focus vs. Collaboration in a Programming School

• May 4, 2014

  Designing Software to Influence Behavior

• May 1, 2014

  Maintaining Octopress themes as git submodules

• Apr 27, 2014

  Setting up a test suite with FactoryGirl and Faker

• Apr 24, 2014

  To Unit Test or not to Unit Test

• Mar 31, 2014

  A Dynamic and Generally Efficient Front-End Filtering Algorithm

• Mar 25, 2014

  Trails & Ways: A Look at Rails Routing

• Mar 22, 2014

  'joins' vs. 'includes' in Arel

• Mar 12, 2014

  Getting Cozy with rspec_helper

• Mar 4, 2014

  Exploring the ActiveRecord Metaphor

• Feb 25, 2014

  A Who's Who of the NYC Civic Hacking and Open Government Scene

• Feb 16, 2014

  The Ruby 'Tap' Method for Objects

• Feb 14, 2014

  Civic Hacking as Inspiration

• Feb 12, 2014

  From Scheme to Ruby

• Feb 10, 2014

  Setting up Auto-Indent in Sublime Text 2

• Feb 5, 2014

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