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Last call: Postdoc positions at Microsoft Research NYC 11 Jan 2013 | 09:57 pm
Microsoft Research New York City seeks outstanding applicants for 2-year postdoctoral researcher positions. We welcome applicants with a strong academic record in one of the following areas: Computati...
A toast to the number 303: A redemptive election night for science, and The Signal 11 Nov 2012 | 02:19 am
The night of February 15, 2012, was an uncomfortable one for me. Not a natural talker, I was out of my element at a press dinner organized by Yahoo! with journalists from the New York Times, Fast Comp...
Raise your WiseQ to the 57th power 6 Oct 2012 | 05:46 pm
One of the few aspects of my job I enjoy more than designing a new market is actually building it. Turning some wild concept that sprung from the minds of a bunch of scientists into a working artifact...
Oddhead Blog hacked… for the third time 7 May 2012 | 02:27 am
My blog has been hacked yet again. For those keeping track, that’s infection number three. This latest exploit is very similar to the previous one. To humans arriving via browser (e.g., me), the site ...
Microsoft Research New York City, First Days 6 May 2012 | 10:19 am
Now that I’ve said my goodbyes, I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined Microsoft Research, an organization with going-on twenty-one years of commitment to basic and applied research, employing 850 ...
Turning in my Yahoo! badge 6 May 2012 | 10:06 am
On Thursday April 26, 2012, I resigned from Yahoo! after nearly 10 without actively changing jobs. Here is the full text of the goodbye letter(s) I sent. It’s the kind of long-winded last salvo that f...
Congratulations Pete Wurman and Kiva Systems, a bellwether of the automated economy 23 Mar 2012 | 06:55 am
Congratulations to my academic sibling, friend, and Detroit Red Wings fan Pete Wurman, whose company Kiva Systems just became Amazon’s second largest acquisition ever. In short, Kiva Systems designs,...
Prediction Market PowWow at Yahoo! Research New York, August 2011 10 Mar 2012 | 10:26 am
I am incredibly lucky. Last August, I spent three days straight thinking almost exclusively about one topic: prediction markets, mostly algorithms. Even better, I was in great company: eleven incredib...
Slipjockey: A marketplace for buying and selling Las Vegas bet slips 25 Oct 2011 | 03:55 am
In late 2010, I began talking to a very early-stage startup named Slipjockey, based in Salt Lake City. When we first started corresponding, Slipjockey was little more than a good idea coupled with som...
A professional thanks and a personal goodbye to Steve Jobs 14 Oct 2011 | 01:32 am
That line typed on an Apple II computer in my Dad’s office in the fourth grade got me hooked on computer programming, an addiction I never outgrew. Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of owning, us...
