Stories by ColinWright

Passwords leaked on live TV as UK responds to flood emergency

Why use a digital stadiometer?

No, Flappy Bird developer didn't give up on $50,000 a day

Analysis of 32 startup post-mortems

After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of solid shapes

Ancient Viking code deciphered for the first time

Silk Road 2 loses $2.7m in bitcoins in alleged hack

Trig functions on 64-bit floats are hard.

Why I left academic mathematics

An introduction to Elliptic curves

Nuclear fusion hits energy milestone

A Short Quiz About Language Design

Bayesian analysis of deaths in Star Trek (TOS)

The Israeli lab where robots can balance and climb walls

PhD abstract in most common 1k words: 'Using Computers a Bit to Ask Quest...'

McEliece cryptosystem – A candidate for post-quantum cryptography

Specific example of validating a product idea.

Studying how T-Rex moved – by strapping fake tails on chickens

Painless Merge Conflict Resolution in Git

Resisting the Urge to Build (My New Startup Checklist) (2013)