Stories by ColinWright

Avoiding underflow in Bayesian computations

Analysis vs Algebra predicts eating corn?

Escher's "Ascending and Descending" in LEGO

What 40 Years Have Wrought: The Earth Since 1972

Science Fair Winner Programs Diagnostic Breast Cancer App With 99% Accuracy

(Why) Juggling for Programmers (and other computer people)

Physics and astronomy explained using LEGO bricks

Plan or build?

Andrew Lipson's Mathematical LEGO Sculptures

Less is exponentially more: Rob Pike on designing Go

Why Sally Ride waited until her death to tell the world she was gay

Blosc: A blocking, shuffling and loss-less compression library

Floating point gotchas: Trick for computing log(1+x)

FastLZ - lightning-fast compression library

How to paste text into Vim command line (and other register tricks)

Darryl Cunningham Investigates: The Moon Hoax

Where good ideas come from (video)

Trees Communicate With One Another, Connected by Fungi (Video)

Press Driven Development: Amazon's approach to product development & management

Should Oscar Pistorius's Prosthetic Legs Disqualify Him from the Olympics?