NERDY LITTLE SECRETS Archives

CES 2019: A Curator’s Curation

By Leslie Ellis — In nearly 20 years of leading tours around the Consumer Electronics Show, I hereby declare the 2019 CES the best ever. Why? Because I had the good fortune to participate in an experiment.

Machine Learning and the Pursuit of Happiness

By Leslie Ellis — In early November, I had the good fortune to host a session at the 2018 Tech It Out, hosted by Rocky Mountain WICT, at the freakishly tech-centric Infinity Park Event Center in Glendale, CO — picture a rectangular room, just wrapped in pixels.

A Summertime Reality Roundup

By Leslie Ellis — It’s the dawn of another searing summer day here in Colorado, so it seemed only natural to start this second installment of Nerdy Little Secrets with the hottest thing that’s happened for me so far this season: Martin Starr, who plays Bertram Gilfoyle, on HBO’s Silicon Valley.

How to Talk Wi-Fi with Non-Tech People

By Leslie Ellis — By now it’s pretty clear that Wi-Fi is a basic digital need, sometimes laughingly lumped into the lowest layer of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs — which includes things like breathing, food, water …