In 2009 a group of 21 Malaysian students were able to cram themselves into a single Mini Cooper*. A Mini Cooper is about 14.5 feet long which means the packing density they were able to achieve was around 1.45 people/linear foot of Mini Cooper length. Think about
High trust networks are wonderful. So long as the trust persists things move smoothly. Everyone is willing to work on a 'handshake' basis and you don't have to worry about getting screwed over. However, these networks have to be monitored closely. Implicit trust can (and will)
Female tarantulas can live 20–30+ years. Males make it to maturity… mate… and then die off not long after so you end up with this wild asymmetry: * One female, alive for decades * Wave after wave of short-lived males cycling through And it gets stranger: Females can store sperm
you signed up for my newsletter a while back but it’s not actually a newsletter. it’s a message that will show up in your inbox now and then from engineers that are building very unnecessary stuff and would love to chat. right now we’re working on a
I want to pique my kids' interest in rockets, science, tech and manufacturing so we went to see a launch. Before we left I sent this message to 914 engineers: "If there are any cool insights about what it takes to build a rocket that would blow a
I posted this on LinkedIn earlier (after running the CFD) but thought it deserved some more analysis. Original Post: "I assume I'm not the only one who has wondered how much effect those little reindeer antlers have on fuel economy...Anyway, turns out it's not
The processing power required to support the AI revolution is a staggering figure, but computing power is a really hard thing to visualize. The scale of the numbers are so huge that it numbs the brain. So how can we visualize the massive amount of computing power required to support
Posted this on reddit: "Seems like every house built in the 70s/80s has a bunch of these hooks in the ceiling and at least half of them are busted off in exactly the same place.I wondered if people were just hanging too much on them or if
Yes. like...a lot faster. Like...if you extrapolate from the current trendline we should be seeing Formula cars that break the sound barrier on the backstretch at Monza somewhere around the year 3284. I read this writeup on the evolution of the Formula 1 car and it got me
Created the CAD, sent it to 3DHR.eu and they cranked out 50 of them in an afternoon.
Metals are my favorite materials to work with because they're so well understood. They’ve been around for a very long time and they have well documented and predictable properties. If you’re designing a simple metal part and you want to verify how it will perform under
Recently I was approached by a client (that I am definitely not making up) to develop an orthopedic implant device. He is an amateur boxer in a totally legitimate organization that is not run by the mafia and he thinks he's found a loophole in the rules that