Stories by ColinWright

Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong (2008)

Claude Shannon and the making of information theory [pdf]

The Most Astounding Fact - Neil deGrasse Tyson (video)

Six-Figure Businesses Built for Less Than $100: 17 Lessons Learned

How to Become a Must-Have

Why I crave mistakes

Asimov: The cult of ignorance (photo)

Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Math Class

Calculating pi with AGM and mpmath

The collaborative mind

Sure Signs That a Good Startup is Going Bad

When is a good time to submit a story to Hacker News?

What is a transit of Venus?

Hacker News Rankings - interactive graphs of an item's fate

Leadership Lessons From Jean-Luc Picard

Valgrind - a tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling.

A Boggling Return to C

To Go Where No Math Has Gone Before

The Mechanics and Meaning of That Ol' Dial-Up Modem Sound

Quantum Teleportation Leaps Forward