Stories by ColinWright

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

Vi Hart on Stravinsky's Atonal Compositions [video]

The Tricky Business of Innovation: Can You Patent a Magic Trick?

Google logic: why Google does the things it does the way it does

What Gmail Knows About You