Stories by ColinWright

100 Day Challenge

UK PM wants to ban crypto: here's what it would cost, and why it won't work anyway

Secret Life of Machines – The Fax Machine (1993) [video]

Computing by Steam – A real-life model of Babbage's Difference Engine

Password Best Practices

Password Best Practices

Investigation of Google shut down one day after Google CEO defends Jared Kushner

Basiscraft

Anti-AI AI: A device that notifies the wearer when a synthetic voice is detected

A Maths Puzzle: Salem Witches

Elliptic Curves as Python Objects

Introducing Elliptic Curves

Update on British Airways: Chaos Continues at Heathrow

Analysis of casino shelf shuffling machines (2011)

All possible pythagorean triples, visualized

Ghosts of departed quantities – The problem with infinitesimals

Dat – Distributed Dataset Synchronization and Versioning

The Joy of Slightly Fishy Proofs

Struggling to cover terrorism in the media age

Chaffinch: Confidentiality in the Face of Legal Threats