Stories by ColinWright

Is It Bad Enough Yet?

Will Google Sell All Your Emails to Your Grandchildren?

Extrapolated art

Babbage's language of thought

How do you find good math learning apps?

Margaret Hamilton: Director of the group that developed Apollo 11 flight s/ware

Computing the Integer Square Root

Moss Graffiti

The Defect Black Market

Why your brain loves procrastination (and how to help it stop)

Years Ago a Doctor Published a Study. Completely Made Up, It Made Us All Sicker

Frugal Streaming

Almost all numbers contain the digit “3” [video]

Please can we stop with the stories about Uber being banned in New Delhi?

MinHash – finding similar items in large populations

A paper by Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel was accepted by scientific journals

HyperLogLog and MinHash

MasterCard vs. BitCoin

Fractals derived from Newton-Raphson iteration

This High Speed Camera Tracks Light Bouncing Off a Mirror at 100bn FPS