ColinWright
Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:39pm PST
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about
If you want to contact me, find me on the web. I am especially interested in math, juggling, programming, and education, and since there are other people with my name you'll probably need to include at least one of those terms in any search.

I was once a prolific contributor and commenter, but no more. I go through bouts of submitting stuff, but then go and disappear for lengths of time. If there is something you'd like me to see or comment on, you can email me. Don't ask me to upvote things. If it is interesting (to me) then I will.

Submissions do not imply endorsement.

My spam filtering is pretty severe, but I've put the word "Dysprosium" on the allow-list - quote that and your email will get through.

I used to have an email here but it got harvested by spammers - I'm looking at you, mbientlab.com - so it has been removed. This is a temporary one:

HN_a7dab8S4@solipsys.co.uk

Email sent there and quoting the element name will pass my spam filters. After that we can use "proper" email addresses.

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Fri Feb 6, 2026 10:25am PST
Tao: An experiment reviving an archaic practice from the era of Gauss
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Wed Feb 4, 2026 1:17pm PST
Great Ball Contraption (GBC) at Japan Brickfest 2025 [video]
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Tues Feb 3, 2026 7:54pm PST
A small gallery of AlphaEvolve experiments
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Tues Feb 3, 2026 6:46pm PST
Trump: Republicans 'should take over the voting' and 'nationalise' US elections
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Mon Feb 2, 2026 6:53pm PST
Five Geek Social Fallacies
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Mon Feb 2, 2026 2:53pm PST
There's a social network for AI agents, and it's getting weird
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Sat Jan 31, 2026 10:31pm PST
Trying out Techdirt's 2025 game, One Billion Users
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Sat Jan 31, 2026 9:14pm PST
Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025
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Thurs Jan 29, 2026 12:13pm PST
In Search of Causality
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Wed Jan 28, 2026 2:42pm PST
A non-technical but capable friend has asked me about installing Linux
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Wed Jan 28, 2026 2:40pm PST
How the Web Was Lost
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Tues Jan 27, 2026 3:54pm PST
Study is stolen, sold, published. Now the victim is accused of plagiarism
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Tues Jan 27, 2026 10:47am PST
Autonomous Aquatic Robot Is Smaller Than a Grain of Salt
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Wed Jan 21, 2026 9:21pm PST
The Truth About Toilet Swirl
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Fri Jan 16, 2026 11:21am PST
CompSci was a golden ticket to a lucrative career. Now graduates can't get a job
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Fri Jan 16, 2026 11:20am PST
Rubenerd: The Rubenerd LLM Licencing Pac
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Wed Jan 14, 2026 1:06pm PST
Responsible Disclosure: Chimoney Android App and KYCaid
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Wed Jan 14, 2026 10:29am PST
Charlie Eggins 3BLD double world record [video]
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Tues Jan 13, 2026 1:33pm PST
The Palindromic Hat-Trick
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Tues Jan 13, 2026 9:55am PST
Lamar wants to have children with his girlfriend. The problem? She's AI
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Mon Jan 12, 2026 5:07pm PST
The Worst Devices of CES 2026 [video]
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Mon Jan 12, 2026 4:06pm PST
University of Utah finds tape with only known copy of Unix V4 hidden in storage
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Sun Jan 11, 2026 2:36pm PST
A City on Mars
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Sat Jan 10, 2026 5:04pm PST
AI Contributions to Erdős Problems
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Fri Jan 9, 2026 12:23pm PST
TicTacToe for the AGC
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Fri Jan 9, 2026 11:56am PST
Please Do Not Attempt to Simplify This Code
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Thurs Jan 8, 2026 9:34am PST
Smart glasses: 'I was filmed and trolled online'
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Wed Jan 7, 2026 9:15pm PST
The application of AI tools to Erdos problems passes a milestone
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Mon Jan 5, 2026 6:02pm PST
I used Lego to design a farm for people who are blind – like me
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Sun Jan 4, 2026 6:41pm PST
Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours: An Introduction to Haskell Through Example [pdf] (2007)
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Sun Jan 4, 2026 6:23pm PST
AI Contributions to Erdős Problems
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Sun Jan 4, 2026 5:56pm PST
Fix the News
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Sun Jan 4, 2026 5:53pm PST
AI summaries in Google and AI coding tools have nearly killed Stack Overflow
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Sat Jan 3, 2026 6:14pm PST
FakeParts: A New Family of AI-Generated DeepFakes
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Sat Jan 3, 2026 5:33pm PST
Happy Perihelion
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Sat Jan 3, 2026 1:19pm PST
Cursor Keys
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Sat Jan 3, 2026 12:03pm PST
The Tyranny of Categorization. We must redefine our relationship with boundaries
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Thurs Jan 1, 2026 10:21pm PST
A 58-Addition, Rank-23 Scheme for General 3x3 Matrix Multiplication
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Thurs Jan 1, 2026 9:53pm PST
Expanding in Three Dimensions [video]
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Tues Dec 30, 2025 1:57pm PST
Echoes from the Moon
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Sat Dec 27, 2025 11:56am PST
Photo from the 60s, scanned and uploaded to Google, correctly geo-located
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Sat Dec 27, 2025 11:27am PST
Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack (2019)
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Fri Dec 26, 2025 8:53pm PST
Amazon non-consensually forced TikTok onto my family's device
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Sun Dec 21, 2025 4:36pm PST
Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code
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Sun Dec 21, 2025 3:28pm PST
Happy Solsthelion
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Sat Dec 20, 2025 8:46pm PST
Before Siri and Alexa, there was ELIZA [video]
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Thurs Dec 18, 2025 11:03pm PST
Fulton surface-to-air recovery system
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Thurs Dec 18, 2025 1:37pm PST
A shared chores list or family shopping list? Prohibited
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Wed Dec 17, 2025 10:05am PST
Australia's Alex Carey reprieved by Snicko operator error
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Wed Dec 17, 2025 9:53am PST
We should just change the spec and ask Firefox to change
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Tues Dec 16, 2025 1:23pm PST
Computing the Integer Binary Logarithm
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Mon Dec 15, 2025 8:29pm PST
Mt Whitney Model (2022)
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Mon Dec 15, 2025 8:22pm PST
Interpreters Everywhere [video]
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Mon Dec 15, 2025 8:37am PST
Norton's dome – A paradox in Newtonian physics
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Sun Dec 14, 2025 1:45pm PST
Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away
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Sat Dec 13, 2025 10:07am PST
'It May Be Worse'–No Fix for New Google Chrome Attacks
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Fri Dec 12, 2025 5:26pm PST
'Three norths' set to leave England for hundreds of years
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Fri Dec 12, 2025 1:36pm PST
Advent of Compiler Optimisations, 2025
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Wed Dec 10, 2025 2:03pm PST
GCHQ Christmas card 2025 sets annual festive challenge
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Wed Dec 10, 2025 9:44am PST
Tai's model for the determination of total area under metabolic curves [pdf] (1994)
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Wed Dec 10, 2025 9:39am PST
Students' inventiveness at circumventing technical restrictions
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Mon Dec 8, 2025 4:27pm PST
Obscuring P2P Nodes with Dandelion
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Mon Dec 8, 2025 11:14am PST
"Not Always Right": Funny and True Stories
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