Stories by ColinWright

Why Do We Pay Pure Mathematicians?

Report Cards for Famous Mathematicians

Examples of apparent patterns that eventually fail

Stereotypes That Distort How Americans Teach and Learn Math (2013)

What would I do if I were starting my blog from scratch?

We had a unit test which only failed on Sundays

Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups?

How hard should it be to pass algebra?

Populating Hyperspace

Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems

How to Debug (2010)

How bad would it be if we accidentally made a black hole?

A company called SkyTran is making maglev passenger “cars”

Swatting Could Soon Be Illegal

MegaProcessor: a CPU (and more) built from discrete transistors (and more)

The most important person in my gang will be a systems programmer [pdf]

How does a relational database work

Superfish 2.0: Dell ships laptops, PCs with huge internet security hole

Death by spam: lazy email marketing is killing our inboxes

Google DeepMind Founder Says AI Machines Have Beat Board Game Go