Stories by robinhouston

Unix’s file durability problem

Craig Wright’s upcoming big reveal

On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit [pdf]

Crazily fast hashing with carry-less multiplications

Who was John Titor, the 'time traveller' who came from 2036?

Shinichi Mochizuki and the impenetrable proof

The Erdos discrepancy problem

Tutte-Coxeter Graph

Triangulations are rigid. You can do better using pseudo-triangles

Hypernom

The power of randomness (John Baez)

Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher (WW2)

Exploiting rootpipe again

This Early Computer Was Based on a Urinal Flush Mechanism

Transfinite Nim

Counting coins

Pan Galactic Division

Teeko

Clean sheet: how to release data or statistics in a spreadsheet

The Government Statistical Service’s terrible spreadsheet advice

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