Stories by ColinWright

Marginalia's Index Reaches 100M Documents (2022)

Why It's So Hard to Search Your Email

Self-teaching, spaced repetition, and why books don't work

An unassembled jigsaw puzzle takes up an area about 1.7 times the assembled area

Singularities don't exist, claims black hole pioneer Roy Kerr

What's inside this crater in Madagascar? [video]

Are we finally entering the indutrial era of research mathematics?

Hixie's Natural Log: Reflecting on 18 Years at Google

Do your administrative procedures serve your customers' needs?

Shortest Explanation of Gödel's Theorem

ChuckM/CarEarthquakePrep: The "go bag" in my car to be ready for earthquakes

The floating desalination machines powered by the waves

Agent-Based Models (Part 3)

A Brief History of Tricky Mathematical Tiling

Turns out you can speedrun Duolingo, someone did an entire course in 24 hours

Pioneer Anomaly

An AI firm harvested billions of photos without consent. UK is powerless to act

Elon Musk unveils new X feature, but no one wants it

Stone Skipping Is a Competitive Sport and Helps Scientists Study Spaceships

Moon Landings Faked? Filmmaker Says Not [video]

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