/Bartosz Ciechanowski

Mechanical Watch tl;dr: "It may be hard to believe that merely a few decades ago the most convenient way to keep track of time was a mechanical watch. Unlike their quartz and smart siblings, mechanical watches can run without using any batteries or other electronic components... Over the course of this article I’ll explain the workings of the mechanism seen in the demonstration below."

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Exposing Floating Point tl;dr: "Despite everyday use, floating point numbers are often understood in a hand-wavy manner and their behavior raises many eyebrows. Over the course of this article I’d like to show that things aren’t actually that complicated." Bartosz guides us through how a float works under the hood.

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An Interactive Explanation Of How GPS Works tl;dr: "We’ll start by creating a positioning system that can tell us where we are. Our initial approach will be quite simple, but we’ll step-by-step improve upon it to build an understanding of the positioning method used by GPS." 

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