Stories by ColinWright

Getting started with WebSockets using Python and Tornado

Scientist in a Strange Land - did life evolve twice?

Being an excellent robot (Erica Goldson Graduation speech)

3D Interactive Asteroid Space Visualization

Learning Markov networks with context-specific independences

Engineers juggle objects with levitating sound waves

Anatomy of a floating point number

Do the Best Professors Get the Worst Ratings?

Is mathematics necessary for programming?

Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors and eigenvalues

Dijkstra: “You will be treated as grown-ups”

Name your Arguments

A flexible git workflow for teams

Your browser could be safer (image)

Harlan Ellison -- Pay the Writer (video rant)

US law protects the right of companies to build strong encryption

Three surprises with the trapezoid rule

Python Little Unix Server Toolkit

The Fourth Dimension App for iPad and iPhone

Ambiguity in mathematical notation