Stories by ColinWright

A step in the “race” to a 1,000mph car

Takeaways to be delivered by drone in Shanghai

The Two-Napkin Protocol (2015)

Lunar Mission Flight Path – Apollo 11 in Detail

Sampling

Hard disk test 'surprises' Google (2007)

Google's self-driving bicycle (or not )

Project Aiur: An Open, Community-Governed AI Engine for Knowledge Validation

Seven Rules to Avoid the Tragedy of the Commons [pdf]

Archimedes' “Hat-Box” Theorem

Synthesising Turing machines by gradient descent

Hackers once stole casino database through lobby fish tank thermometer

C Standard Undefined Behavior vs. Wittgenstein [pdf]

Archimedes' “Hat Box” Theorem

How to make travel more bearable? Bring on the robot suitcase

Visualising the Volume of a Sphere

Considering a Sphere

The EU's copyright proposal is so bad, it even outlaws Creative Commons licenses

Schlep Blindness

“When will I ever need Pythagoras?” – an honest response