Stories by ColinWright

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

Teaching Math to People Who Think They Hate It

Square Root by Long Division

Periodic Table of Elements, scaled by number of mentions

Into Thin Error: Mountaineer Ed Viesturs on Making Mistakes

Solar System Scale Model Calculator

A 1:10 trillion scale model of the Solar System (and beyond)

Ancient Computer Even More Ancient Than We Thought

Scientists Program Largest Swarm of Robots Ever