On Disappearing Code

I’m sure there’s a word for what I’m referring to, but I don’t know it. By disappearing code, I mean the kind you write as…

Was Donald Trump Behind #OpTrump2016?

I think Donald Trump is, at best, a piece of shit. I’m biased. But, I do think his campaign is brilliant, exploiting every aspect of a flawed primary system, and an electorate in a populist mood. The combination of my bias and my assessment of his political team’s…

Learning: Slow Versus Fast

I get excited when given the opportunity to learn something new. It’s a useful emotional motivator for me. But…

On the SEC and IEX (in literally two minutes)

A market is a social and computational tool.

It integrates information from disparate sources and actors in a way that aligns well with human motives. When a market works properly, it estimates what the current price of…

Partisanship, Nerd-love, and Race

The hard sciences (e.g. physics and chemistry) don’t have much of a social dimension. Consequently, if you want to consume scientific information at a pop-sci level, the race of the scientist shouldn’t matter. On Twitter, across party lines, it does, quantitatively.