Stories by amichail

Bush Finds Error In Fermilab Calculations

An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything (not a joke)

How would you motivate people to learn on their own as an alternative to going to university?

15 Puzzles in 30 Minutes

Puzzle: 100 Prisoners and a Light Bulb

From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm

Do users generally demand transparent and simple algorithms in social software (e.g., social news)?

Would it make sense to ask people to play thinking games during technical interviews (e.g., Portal)?

The death of computing

"It's not that foreign students are any smarter, ... They just have relentless discipline."

What would happen to society if everyone learned to write simple programs in a high-level language?

A puzzle I made up that might be good for technical interviews: "slider puzzle with a twist"

Can you solve this problem that the world famous mathematician Paul Erdos got wrong?

Why I am Not a Professor, or The Decline and Fall of the British University

Karma Contribution: (# subsequent people who vote your way)-(# of subsequent people who vote differently)

Building the world's best online word processor -- can you port TeXmacs to flash/silverlight?

What will happen to you as you grow older: you will go "meta"

Conflicting goals between VCs and entrepreneurs

Ask YC: Is a social app where users are told to lie to their friends acceptable?

Ask YC: What is the average Facebook user like?