I wish to talk to you today about interest. While the position I will present to you, may carry controversy, I can assure you that I hold this view with absolute conviction, and the analysis and rigor to back it up. To understand interest, we must first understand the brutality…

Hopeware: Ecash bill overpromises and relies on untested level of tamper resistant hardware. The ecash bill is a piece of legislation put forward by Represantive Stephen Lynch with cosponsors Representatives Jesus G. Garcia, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Alma Adams. The ecash bill hopes to achieve a secure and privacy…

I asked my control theory professor doctor Sean Warnick something that triggered a discussion about the time domain and the frequency domain and fourier series circa 2010. Or maybe he just brought this up himself. He said there is an known application of “feedback” in a temporal sense, and that…

Web development isn’t just about building websites — One surprisingly versatile use for html is using it to typeset pdf documents. Html provides a good middle ground between the precision of latex and the informality of markdown. With a little knowledge of basic css and html you can make good looking custom documents that render in very predictable…

Tying your token, to your technology is a bad choice. — Cryptocurrencies have promised a lot, and delivered a certain amount of utility. But the clear problem with cryptocurrency as a concept is that your technology stack is intrinsically tied to your token and its value. Technology changes frequently. Throughout history, accounting technology has changed from one medium to the next…

The mainstream narrative, behind interest rates, is that lower rates increase lending, and thus drive inflation. Meanwhile, higher rates reduce lending. But who is lending to who, and for what, actually matters. So you can’t make a blanket generalization, about these effects. The biggest effect of lending practices on inflation…

Iterate when you are close to your target /* How to use leapfrog debugging When you are first learning a coding principle or practice, it is extremely beneficial to debug and test at every step. Even with experience, incremental testing has certain benefits. But like anything there is a cost. …

Imposter syndrome is real. It isn’t your fault, but you have to fix it anyway. — Many people have imposter syndrome, meaning they feel underqualified for the role they are expected to perform. Most of the time, they are correct. We have high expectations for people that isn’t really based in reality, but rather wishful thinking. If I tell you that this imposter syndrome isn’t your…

Alice has $1,000, bob has $100, and rachel has $10. Let’s say each of them spend all their money, but earn it all back by the end of the day…