Stories by ColinWright

Hate Small Talk? These 5 Questions Will Help You Work Any Room

St Andrew's College

Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle

A HTTP command line interface for humans

Hey Yahoo, You’re Optimizing the Wrong Thing

XKCD Refrigerator

Something Euclid Missed

Friends You Can Count On

Editing text is the opposite of handling exceptions

Theorems with a small number of sporadic exceptions

Microsoft Patent: How to Silence your Device by whacking it off

Does infinity exist?

How to clean up oil spills using magnets

Udemy sells Zed Shaw's courses at discount, despite being told to stop

Your Friend Network? Ask Wolfram Alpha for your Facebook report

Robots and humans could 'talk' via new software

The Death of SEO (Part 2): Generating Real Content

Malware inserted on PC production lines

Fast integer compression: decoding billions of integers per second

How many "github is down" postings will there be?