Stories by ColinWright

Resolutions for grad students

The Perils of Partially Powered Languages

Understanding Python decorators

Poll: How many programmers don't know about bit-wise operations?

The Problem with Instructional Videos

Play-Doh 3D Printer

Narcissus Prime

Unlearning

Is some music better than it can be played, and does some music need help?

Garbage collecting stop the world for about 10 seconds in Go

Snap-proof space tether

When judges can't do math, justice suffers.

Student Develops Array That Could Remove 7.5 M Tons Of Plastic From the Oceans

The Schemaverse

Researchers develop quantum computer algorithm for counting prime numbers

The Rubber Band Heat Engine (video)

Centenary of Mathematician Paul Erdős -- Source of Bacon Number Concept

Think mathematics is (just) a language? Think again.

f(Erdős) = 100 (Centenary of Erdős' birth)

Ascending Everest: The queue of climbers on the "Hillary Step"