Articles by tromp
52

The largest number representable in 64 bits (tromp.github.io)

1

Chinese Tennis Playing Robot (supercarblondie.com)

5

Ukraine survives another crisis with Donald Trump (economist.com)

2

XPeng Gears Up to Launch Robotaxis Next Year (wsj.com)

3

I rode in Xpeng's $20,000 Tesla FSD competitor (electrek.co)

14

Sodium batteries are finally catching up (sciencedaily.com)

6

The EPA Hasn't Released a Toxicity Report on this Forever Chemical (propublica.org)

7

How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs (reuters.com)

1

The Babson Task has been achieved in an endgame study (chessbase.com)

1

Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America (newyorker.com)

1

America's New Foreign Policy (economist.com)

3

Fake police knock on man's door at 2am (dailydot.com)

4

China's Economy Is Burdened by Years of Excess (wsj.com)

2

A Looming Threat to Bitcoin: The Risk of a Quantum Hack (wsj.com)

3

Tesla Model Q is reportedly coming in first half 2025 (teslarati.com)

7

Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard are coming for the spooks (economist.com)

7

Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind (economist.com)

2

New Google Gemini model goes straight to the top of the LLM leaderboard (tomsguide.com)

2

Neom CEO departs as Saudi Arabia scales back mega-projects (theguardian.com)

1

Lightfoot solar scooter (engadget.com)

1

The Incredible Power of Quantum Memory (wired.com)

17

Apple M4 Pro analysis – fast, but not as efficient (notebookcheck.net)

3

The Biggest Clue That the Supreme Court Has Lost Touch with Reality (slate.com)

2

The paper no one read before declaring the demise of modern cryptography (arstechnica.com)

1

Electric Motors Are About to Get a Major Upgrade Thanks to Benjamin Franklin (wsj.com)

2

Years of miscalculations by US/NATO led to dire shell shortage in Ukraine (reuters.com)

3

Biden's ABC Interview Showed a President in Denial (wsj.com)

16

Kurzweil: We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045 (theguardian.com)

1

The Fastest Data in the World (bbc.com)

7

Zeekr 007: This $36,000 Tesla Model 3 Competitor Proves We're Cooked (insideevs.com)

5

There is an explosive flaw in the plan to rearm Ukraine (economist.com)

2

After the OceanGate Implosion, the Ultra Wealthy Still Can't Resist the Deep Sea (wsj.com)

6

Kobo Clara Colour e-reader review (engadget.com)

3

Investors clash over Elon Musk's $46B pay package (fortune.com)

3

How Jim Simons Revolutionised Investing (economist.com)

33

Hertz Charges Tesla Model 3 Renter $277 Fee for Gas (thedrive.com)

48

New capacitor with 19-times energy density (livescience.com)

1

Semiconductor giants race to make next generation of cutting-edge chips (ft.com)

2

Large Numbers [video] (youtube.com)

24

The largest number representable in 64 bits (tromp.github.io)

4

What would aliens tell us with this message?

6

Texas board rejects many science textbooks over climate change messaging (texastribune.org)

2

No Excuses (monbiot.com)

3

Hans Niemann’s $100M Lawsuit over Chess Cheating Allegations Is Dismissed (wsj.com)

70

New bioinspired robot flies, rolls, walks, and more (caltech.edu)

24

The largest number representable in 64 bits (googology.fandom.com)

2

Magnon-based computation could signal computing paradigm shift (phys.org)

1

The largest number representable in 64 bits (googology.fandom.com)

1

The largest number representable in 64 bits (googology.fandom.com)

3

Discovery of a single tile that tiles the plane only aperiodically (hatsya.com)

2

Lightyear restart aims to bring cheaper Lightyear 2 to market (electrek.co)

7

George Hotz wants to ‘make driving chill’ with next-gen assist (theverge.com)

2

A Bitcoiner's Guide to Proof of Stake

1

The Lucid electric motor explained and compared with the competition

1

Aptera debuts the gamma version of its 1k mile range solar electric vehicle

9

Avalanche conspires with law firm to attack competing blockchains

2

Aptera offers look at upcoming Gamma model