Stories by amichail

Why is Google rewarding rote memorization?

Austin Meyer's Interview, + Ben and Randy from Laminar Research

Chris Langan: World's Smartest Man

Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?

More iPhone/iPod touch apps from X-Plane's creator

Ask HN: Is pseudocode copyrightable?

Why did the "BrainTeaser" iPhone puzzle become so popular?

A proof that the Halting Problem is undecidable in verse.

Computational complexity lectures by Fields medalist Tim Gowers.

Subreddit for interesting Wolfram Alpha queries.

Wolfram Alpha will fail for the same reason that Microsoft failed at search.

Does your programming make it harder for you to deal with an imperfect world?

New search engines aspire to supplement Google

iPhone development tip: pick a name starting with an early letter in the alphabet.

Wolfram Alpha will teach the masses about precision and recall.

An idea for enforcing the golden rule on the internet via "empathy views".

My iPhone app has mostly very positive and very negative ratings. What to do?

Phantoms In The Brain (investigations by neurologist V.S. Ramachandran)

A simple way for NASA to get massive news coverage in this mission.

Why is it that a single vote can make a huge difference in social news sites?