Stories by amichail

Numbrosia puzzle is back as an iPhone/iPod Touch app.

Time travel in global high score lists to make games more fun.

Experimental Game: Shadow Physics

Why not build a knowledge base whose content comes from phone conversations?

Entrepreneurship classes should be mandatory in K-12 to combat teacher bias.

How do people working at twitter feel about benefiting from swine flu?

Spider "Resurrections" Take Scientists by Surprise

New Scientist: NanoTouch (Microsoft Research, Hasso Plattner Institute)

Are your "peers" in academia worse than your boss in industry?

Curing insomnia using anti-placebo. (Placebo makes it worse!)

Another not so well thought out Slate article: I'm Human, Computer, I Swear

If your startup succeeds, do you use the resulting web traffic to promote your earlier failed startups?

Google App Engine should give app users an estimate of how "permanent" the site is.

How would you build a Rubik's "sound" cube?

At what point is freedom maximized on the IQ curve?

Fun human computation games to produce high quality language translations.

YouCube: Play six YouTube videos on a cube.

When selling software internationally, how do you collect taxes for each country?

A Design for a Distributed Transaction Layer for Google App Engine

Distributed transactions finally implemented for Google App Engine