wk20/2021

Another week of links, from 17th - 23rd May 2021

• Ai mid 2021. Self driving car meets reality. (blog.piekniewski.info) - the status of self driving AI powered cars in 2021
• Caltech professor helps solve Hindenburg disaster (caltech.edu) - analysis of the Hindenburg disaster to find out what the route cause was

• How Lucky Is Too Lucky in Minecraft? - (politicalcalculations.blogspot.com) - a cheating scandal in Minecraft speedrunning - worth watching the entire 40min analysis of the probabilities in the speed run by Stand-Up Maths
• A Teenager's Guide to Avoiding Actual Work (madned.substack.com) - author's reluctance for physical labour, avoiding it with better paid programming

• How Miss Shilling’s Orifice Helped Win the War (damninteresting.com) - story of a pioneering engineer who helped fix a critical issue in the fuel system of the Spitfire