Stories by ColinWright

A little simplicity goes a long way (2008)

Backup OpenPGP keys on paper

On the centenery of his birth, my meeting with Martin Gardner

Inspirograph

Bertrand paradox (probability)

Artificial arms get closer to the real thing

Watch an Apple Engineer Recreate a 2,000-Year-Old Computer Using Legos (2010)

Soylent gets a version bump to 1.1

Bram Cohen – I am now going to pontificate about how git bisect should work

Neil Sloane: the man who loved only integer sequences

Study: Rote memorization plays crucial role in solving complex calculations

3D printed heart saves baby’s life as medical technology leaps ahead

Teaching Math to People Who Think They Hate It

A 1939 Map of Physics

McEliece cryptosystem – a candidate for post-quantum crypto

How Computers Boot Up (2008)

Timeline of computer viruses and worms

What's up with the number 163?

Has LinkedIn lost control of its user email database?

Cling: an interactive C++ interpreter, built on top of Clang and LLVM