Stories by ColinWright

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

Orion: Uncertainty ahead for new US spaceship

How to Stop Wasting Colleagues' Time

Counter-Intuitive Psychology Findings

Dürer's polyhedron: theories that explain Melencolia's crazy cube