Stories by scott_s

Explaining an astonishing slinky

Turning Education Upside Down

Body Image and Giving the Finger

Science’s Significant Stats Problem

A general technique for automating NES games

GDC: Riot Experimentally Investigates Online Toxicity

Observations on Errors, Corrections, and Trust of Dependent Systems

The science behind Dance Central 3’s "Make Your Move" game mode

Traces vs. Snapshots: Print Statements and Debuggers

How To recover deleted files on an ext3 file system

Computer Science is Not Math

The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory [pdf]

How Do You Say ‘Disagreement’ in Pirahã?

Making the Streets of San Francisco Easier to Park On

Wikimedia based C++ reference

One year in one image

Automatic Bus Tracking, Mapping, and Arrival Time Prediction Using Smartphones

Hilarious account of a legal bank-robbery

Dynamics of JavaScript

Advice to new researchers

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