Stories by ColinWright

Equations that changed the course of humanity

Maths and arrogance

The 50 million dollar lie

Think Foolishly: How to Think Like a Fool # 5: Try a Really Bad Idea

Top Unknowable Things

How many calories does it take to bring a calorie to the ISS?

A drop of water on molten sodium (slow motion video)

Touch-sensitive video-screen floor is in step with you

More than 1 brain behind E=mc^2

Vasili Arkhipov: The man who prevented nuclear war.

Aleksey Vayner Has Died at 29

Ayasdi is hiring

Tupper's self-referential formula

Bayes' Theorem Visualized (video)

Innovation pessimism: Has the ideas machine broken down?

Things You Won't Believe Math Can Predict

Google Transparency Report shows rise in data requests

Pick three to five programming languages to demonstrate the paradigms

First Sunday Doomsday Algorithm: Learn by Example

Tell HN: A script to download your saved story links