Stories by ColinWright

What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves

Turing papers that cracked Nazi code were used as draught excluders (2015)

Ackerman Steering

On Instagram, 'Unlink Account' Won't Unlink a Facebook Account

Michael Crichton: Why Speculate? (2005)

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine

Seventy versus One Hundred

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