🎧 This Week in Google 418 I Want a Three-Tier Tiffen | TWiT.TV

Listened to This Week in Google 418 I Want a Three-Tier Tiffen by Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, Mike Elgan from TWiT.tv

Neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer kicked off Go Daddy, Google, Cloudflare, Twitter, and more. Essential phone will be here next week. Pixel 2 passes the FCC, will feature squeezable sides. Allo on the web is still too limited. YouTube will show how many people are watching right now. Mark Zuckerberg's political ambitions. Ordering pizza on Facebook. Trump's DOJ wants 1.3 million IP addresses of people protesting Trump. Ikea smart bulbs work with HomeKit, Alexa, and Google Home.

  • Stacey's thing: A New Way to Dinner
  • Mike's tool: meetingbird
  • Leo's pick: MoviePass

🎧 This Week in Google 417 Fire and Furry | TWiT.TV

Listened to This Week in Google 417 Fire and Furry by Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham from TWiT.tv

Google engineer writes men's rights diatribe. Google fires him. Discussion ensues. Also: Deepmind vs. Starcraft, get a new phone every 30 days, Amazon's secret brands, Instagram depression, and the 8th best tech writer in the US.

Checkin CSULA Ballroom

Checked into CSULA Ballroom
WordCamp Los Angeles Day 2

👓 Vladimir Voevodsky, Fields Medalist, Dies at 51 | IAS

Read Vladimir Voevodsky, Fields Medalist, Dies at 51 (Institute for Advanced Study)
The Institute for Advanced Study is deeply saddened by the passing of Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor in the School of Mathematics. Voevodsky, a truly extraordinary and original mathematician, made many contributions to the field of mathematics, earning him numerous honors and awards, including the Fields Medal. Celebrated for tackling the most difficult problems in abstract algebraic geometry, Voevodsky focused on the homotopy theory of schemes, algebraic K-theory, and interrelations between algebraic geometry, and algebraic topology. He made one of the most outstanding advances in algebraic geometry in the past few decades by developing new cohomology theories for algebraic varieties. Among the consequences of his work are the solutions of the Milnor and Bloch-Kato Conjectures. More recently he became interested in type-theoretic formalizations of mathematics and automated proof verification. He was working on new foundations of mathematics based on homotopy-theoretic semantics of Martin-Löf type theories. His new "Univalence Axiom" has had a dramatic impact in both mathematics and computer science.
 

Sad to hear of Dr. Voevodsky’s passing just as I was starting into my studies of algebraic geometry…

👓 A Micro.blog #FollowFriday, Part I Among the Stones

Read A Micro.blog #FollowFriday, Part I by Jimmy Baum (Among the Stones)
For those of us wanting to leave Twitter and other silos behind and focus more on microblogging on our own domains, discovering new people to follow can be a little tricky. Manton Reece has a Discover tab on Micro.blog to find people, but the service is still in its infancy. Colin Devroe suggested a #FollowFriday movement. I’ll start off with two bloggers I’m enjoying. Feel free to use webmentions for your own lists! Please correct me if anyone else has started this, I haven’t had great connectivity for the last few weeks.
Jimmy has added me to his list of recommendations. Perhaps I missed the webmention/notification for it while I was moving, but I saw it organically anyway–since I follow him myself. His list has several people that I also follow pretty closely, so I’m honored to be included.

It also reminds me that I ought to get to work on keeping a following list of my own or add a follow post type to my site eventually. Perhaps something to think about over WordCamp LA and IndieWebCamp NYC this weekend?

Checkin Just Tires

Checked into Just Tires
Replacing the tire I just blew on the 210 freeway—five months after its warranty ran out.

Thanks for the kind and speedy help AAA.

Checkin The UPS Store

Checked into The UPS Store
Look the UPS store is so close! Returning some parts to Amazon.

I had actually looked up a UPS Store on my phone while leaving Vons and was shocked/surprised to see there was one just 275 feet away. Somehow I’d never noticed it before.

Checkin Cross Campus Old Pasadena

Checked into Cross Campus Old Pasadena: Innovate Pasadena - “Who is this TED guy anyway? And what the heck is TEDx?”
Innovate Pasadena coffee meetup
“Who is this TED guy anyway? And what the heck is TEDx?”

While short and relatively interesting, this talk felt kind of like filler compared to what Friday morning coffees typically present. I’m surprised that it was something that came out of someone who organizes TEDx talks (aside from the short length). The take away was definitely don’t do one of these talks the day before one of the areas biggest TEDx events of the year. The worst part was that she was tired as the result of the event coming up on Saturday and didn’t get the real PR value out of it because the event had been sold out for months already. Better, she should have done it the week before the next event to lead into it.