Stories by ColinWright

Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware

The complexity of the human brain and its functions in a neat infographic map [pdf]

Muonic hydrogen is 207 times smaller than hydrogen

Duolingo lays off huge numbers in favour of AI translators

'Link History,' Facebook's New Way to Track the Websites You Visit

Self-Play Fine-Tuning Converts Weak Language Models to Strong Language Models

You're Supposed to Be Glad Your Tesla Is a Brittle Heap of Junk

Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio)

Failures of Web Search Engines

Foundations – Greg Egan

Seventy versus One Hundred

CrayZee Eighty

Mathematicians' Search for the Mysterious 'Einstein Tile'

Why the Fediverse is the future of social networks, and the web

Is ice-cream good for you? Scientists divided on claims about health benefits

Marginalia's Index Reaches 100M Documents (2022)

Why It's So Hard to Search Your Email

Self-teaching, spaced repetition, and why books don't work

An unassembled jigsaw puzzle takes up an area about 1.7 times the assembled area

Singularities don't exist, claims black hole pioneer Roy Kerr

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