Stories by ColinWright

Chaotic storage - helping Amazon cope with 35 orders per second

What Are Roots of Unity?

Walter Cronkite in the Home Office of 2001 (video, 1967)

Why You Should Be Excited About the New Record for the Largest Prime Number

My 10 Essential Email Habits

ISS photos show "internal waves" that travel beneath the surface

Mathematician models the spread—and prevention—of crime as a wave

Express properties about Haskell programs and automatically prove them

Hitting the High Notes (2005)

48th Mersenne prime found

Mistake found in invariant subspace proof

The Superbowl, a Nerds-Eye View.

Exploiting Loopholes in CAP

Errata Security: Risk analysis v. Downtime

Keep Your Official Twitter Archive Fresh

Branch And Bound: Why Does It Work?

Experts warn on wire-tapping of the cloud

Git is an editor, and rebase is the backspace key

How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code

Asciio lets you create ASCII charts graphically