This week is about understanding derivatives, future of Carousell in SEA, ool math dimensional spheres, watching Badanamu with kids and the business of video games starting with Atari.
What is a derivative?
I often hear someone ask what derivatives are. My short answer for that would be, it is a contract that can be used similar to money. This explaination is overly simplied but anyone can somehow grasp its rough meaning. What is a derivative?.
Carousell’s Growing in South East Asia
This app is close to my heart but until know I'm not sure how or when they will start monetizing. Currently they are still on VC funding, running like a startup. Hopefully they have a good kick off in southeast asia. Techinasia: Carousell’s take on growing mobile classifieds in SEA.
Math: A Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
A good read, video for understanding higher dimensions through spherical analogies. Hypersphere allows us to understand the complexity of higher dimension mathematically.
How do you stack hundred-dimensional oranges? Learn about recent breakthroughs in our understanding of hyperspheres in the first episode of Infinite Series, a show that tackles the mysteries and the joy of mathematics. From Logic to Calculus, from Probability to Projective Geometry, Infinite Series both entertains and challenges its viewers to take their math game to the next level.
Kids: Badanamu
Having two kids 2 and 4 years old. Watching kids video is nearly inevitable. Badanamu is one of my kids favorites, great graphics and quality songs.
Crash Course: Atari and the Business of Video Games
Andre is going to talk about the rise of Atari and with it the rise of the video game industry. If you remember from last episode, it was mentioned that the first arcade machine, Galaxy Game, happened to have a coin slot, but this was just the beginning. Nolan Bushnell, often considered the Father of the Video Game Industry, saw the opportunity for the commercialization of video games. Bushnell founded Atari and oversaw the development of its first game - Pong. And then, through some questionably ethical business strategies, Bushnell was able to get his machines into arcades all across the United States. But if this is all Atari had done, we probably wouldn’t be dedicating an entire episode to it. Atari also played a major role in getting video games into the home with the Atari 2600 console. Video games were becoming a part of peoples’ everyday lives and they were becoming a part of popular culture. But Atari wasn’t the only video game company in the 1970s, it wasn’t even the first. So we’re going talk about some of the other companies that took part in the war for a place in our living rooms next week!