Stories by ColinWright

Minecraft Scientific/Graphing Calculator – Sin Cos Tan Log Square Root

The Hunt for Red October as hard science fiction

Mutilated chessboard problem

How crowd disasters happen, and how they can be avoided

Lost, then returned two years later: Grand Canyon from the Stratosphere

Letter to a calculus student, the sequel

Peeple, so-called “Yelp for people”, may be vaporware

Peeple the thing versus Peeple the app

Why Kindergarten in Finland Is All About Playtime

Estimating Pi with the Mandelbrot Set [video]

The Rise and Fall of the Cash Railway

When is a good time to post to HN? HN Notify (no, not that one)

The Rise and Fall of the Cash Railway

Is zero an even number?

Introducing Elliptic Curves (2014)

Coding: the new Latin (2011)

Introducing Elliptic Curves (2014)

A curious cold spot in the Atlantic has scientists deeply worried

The speed of light, a spinoff from longitude research (2013)

Always bet on text (2014)