Stories by ColinWright

Engineering Quicksort

Between the World and the Mind

Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle

On the Number of Times an Integer Occurs as a Binomial Coefficient

Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses

Tim Gowers on the robustness of mathematical proofs

Calculus Is Deeply Irrational

Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]

A static wiki-like site via forms, email, and local scripts

Collecting and Managing URLs from the Interwebs

Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (1972) [pdf]

On average, how many solutions are there to x^2+y^2=N?

1m fingerprints found in leaky database by firm who should know better

A Path Less Taken to the Peak of the Math World

He tried to prank the DMV. Then his vanity license plate backfired big time

Gadgets can be hacked to produce 'dangerous' sounds, says researcher

Australian bureaucrat loses landmark case over political tweets

Seventy Versus One Hundred: Simple calculation, surprise conclusion (to some)

The Only Way to Win Is Not to Play the Game

SKS Keyserver Network Attack: Consequences