Stories by ColinWright

The Talk That Wasn’t

Odd Perfect Number Search

The Page-Fault Weird Machine: Lessons in Instruction-less Computation

Why humans can outrun horses but can’t jump higher than cats.

Vim's new hybrid line number mode

Solar pond

Reasons Web Developers Should Learn AngularJS

America's Cup: Oracle Team USA draw level at 8-8 after seven straight wins

Box: Art meets projection onto moving surfaces

How Google Converted Language Translation Into a Problem of Vector Space Math

Feynman point

How I became one of the three "best optimizers in the world"

Universe may be curved, not flat

Implementing a Turing machine in Excel

To err is human, to catch an error shows expertise

The Great Moon Hoax, and "Are we amusing ourselves to death?"

Scientists’ depressing new discovery about the brain

An introduction to infinity

What fair dice can be simulated by adding up other dice?

Outline of the plan to salvage the Costa Concordia