Stories by ColinWright

Fast-build Twitter account scams target World Cup and CL draws

Log anomaly detection tools

Company's Amazing Reply to a Raging Customer Has Fans and Orders Pouring In

Purely Functional Retrogames, Part 1 (2008)

No math gene: Learning mathematics takes practice

New technology warns drivers about cyclists

Ask HN: How to get started with a modern Lisp

Telling You the Answer Isn't the Answer

Don't Distract New Programmers with OOP

Is Life a Smoother Ride If You're a Chicken?

Mind-Mangling Optical Illusion GIFs

Scientific Data Has Become So Complex, We Must Invent New Math to Deal With It

Cantor’s theorem, the prisoner’s dilemma, and the halting problem

Sheriff: Colorado school shooter dead

Prolog for Programmers

George Orwell: What is Science? (1945)

Revisiting why incompetents think they’re awesome (2012)

The weirdest thing women say to me

Classic repost: Teaching linear algebra (2009) [Actually - teaching anything]

The dangers of loose talk about genetics