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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Tues Sep 2, 2025 3:14pm PST
Maths has discovered a self-righting tetrahedron [video]
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Tues Sep 2, 2025 12:39pm PST
How to Play Go: Absolute Beginner Tutorial [video]
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Mon Sep 1, 2025 10:10pm PST
The Tinkertoy Computer
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Sat Aug 30, 2025 1:53pm PST
The Unfashionable Art of Learning Things
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Sat Aug 30, 2025 12:03pm PST
Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?
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Mon Aug 25, 2025 2:46pm PST
Owls in Towels
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Mon Aug 25, 2025 10:16am PST
Additions with unique digits: a tale of puzzling and AI
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Sun Aug 24, 2025 4:38pm PST
Additions with unique digits: a tale of puzzling and AI
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Sun Aug 24, 2025 12:11pm PST
Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr
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Wed Aug 20, 2025 10:10am PST
The benefits of doing nothing. Literally ... nothing.
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Sun Aug 17, 2025 8:22pm PST
Scientific and technological knowledge grows linearly over time
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Sat Aug 16, 2025 10:23pm PST
UK's National Drought Group recommends deleting old emails to help save water
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Tues Aug 12, 2025 4:20pm PST
Google ending AI arms ban concerning, campaigners say (2025/02/05)
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Tues Aug 12, 2025 12:55pm PST
It's sufficiently bad that I am grateful I still have regex
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Tues Aug 12, 2025 11:58am PST
Would a Blockchain have prevented LIBOR fraud?
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Sun Aug 10, 2025 9:18pm PST
How Wikipedia is fighting AI slop content
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Sat Aug 9, 2025 9:18am PST
A Case of Bromism Influenced by Use of Artificial Intelligence
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Fri Aug 8, 2025 8:50pm PST
Making a Billion-Year Lego Clock [video]
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Fri Aug 8, 2025 7:13pm PST
Jim Lovell Has Died
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Fri Aug 8, 2025 1:39pm PST
Blueberry Hill -- A chat with ChatGPT-5
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Thurs Aug 7, 2025 6:22pm PST
Here Come the AI Worms
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Tues Aug 5, 2025 2:51pm PST
Be Positive – Strive for Balance
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Tues Aug 5, 2025 2:30pm PST
No Comment (2010)
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Sun Aug 3, 2025 9:39am PST
Delta's AI-based price-gouging
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Thurs Jul 31, 2025 1:17pm PST
Dark patterns
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Thurs Jul 31, 2025 8:28am PST
Leaving LinkedIn
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Thurs Jul 31, 2025 8:00am PST
Double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials
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Delta's AI-based price-gouging
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Tues Jul 29, 2025 6:44pm PST
Learning Is Slower Than You Think – and That's the Point
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Tues Jul 29, 2025 6:24pm PST
A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat (2023)
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Tues Jul 29, 2025 11:13am PST
Celebrating 25 Years of Continuous Human Presence Aboard the ISS
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Tues Jul 29, 2025 11:11am PST
Simple Sabotage Field Manual (Mastodon 'Bot)
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Tues Jul 29, 2025 11:06am PST
Using dimensional analysis to estimate the energy released by an atomic bomb
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Tues Jul 29, 2025 9:34am PST
John Carlos Baez: Here's a consequence of Newton's law of gravity
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Mon Jul 28, 2025 8:48pm PST
Nasubi – a real life "Truman Show"
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Mon Jul 28, 2025 10:08am PST
Tom Lehrer's prank on the NSA that waited 60 years to be discovered
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Sun Jul 27, 2025 11:35am PST
Ethereum EIP-55 added backward-compatible error checking
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Sat Jul 26, 2025 9:26pm PST
TouchID no longer works after spending several hours sanding wood
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Sat Jul 26, 2025 9:23pm PST
Content Moderation on Mastodon Isn't the Train Wreck Some on Twitter Say It Is
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Sat Jul 26, 2025 6:02pm PST
Allianz Life: Insurance giant says most US customer data stolen in cyber-attack
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Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:19am PST
Hacker inserts destructive code in Amazon Q tool as update goes live
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Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:16am PST
Trump unveils his plan to put AI in everything
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Thurs Jul 24, 2025 7:05pm PST
Caen Hill Locks
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Thurs Jul 24, 2025 1:04pm PST
VMware portal prevents some users from downloading patches
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Thurs Jul 24, 2025 9:20am PST
LLMs remain vulnerable to "jailbreaking" through adversarial prompts
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Wed Jul 23, 2025 3:28pm PST
Man Is Wrongfully Jailed for Heinous Crime Due to Facial Recognition Technology
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Tues Jul 22, 2025 10:32pm PST
How to Make a Paper Airplane
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Tues Jul 22, 2025 10:30pm PST
Antipodes Map – Tunnel to the other side of the world
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Mon Jul 21, 2025 9:57pm PST
Gilles Dowek has died, aged 58
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Mon Jul 21, 2025 11:01am PST
OTD 1969/07/21 02:56 UTC, Armstrong was the first person to walk on the Moon
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Sun Jul 20, 2025 12:44pm PST
4D rotations are the symmetries giving conservation of the eccentricity vector
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Sun Jul 20, 2025 11:26am PST
Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US'
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Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:11pm PST
Counting Carbon Calories
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Thurs Jul 17, 2025 10:12pm PST
Trump to Open $9T Retirement Market to Cryptocurrencies
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Thurs Jul 17, 2025 1:27pm PST
Lego Mindstorms Bridge Layer [video]
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Thurs Jul 17, 2025 12:25pm PST
WeTransfer issues update on its terms of service and AI
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Thurs Jul 17, 2025 12:22pm PST
We've got to stop sending files to each other
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Wed Jul 16, 2025 1:26pm PST
Best Book Writing Software: Updated for 2025
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Wed Jul 16, 2025 6:22am PST
Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY
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Tues Jul 15, 2025 4:25pm PST
Scientists reportedly hiding AI prompts in papers to receive positive reviews
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Tues Jul 15, 2025 4:04pm PST
The Kepler Problem
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Tues Jul 15, 2025 3:51pm PST
How I Got Thousands of Mastodon Users to Whistle at Their Screens
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Sun Jul 13, 2025 12:47pm PST
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)
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Sat Jul 12, 2025 2:18pm PST
Are Developers Out of a Job?
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Sat Jul 12, 2025 10:39am PST
Revival: There appears to be media consensus: "Bluesky is dead."
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Sat Jul 12, 2025 9:52am PST
What does it mean to "win the AI race"?
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Sat Jul 12, 2025 9:28am PST
Can you pass my questions to your technical person? I don't think you understand
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Sat Jul 12, 2025 9:25am PST
Second Sight
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Thurs Jul 10, 2025 12:28pm PST
De-Pixelating a YouTube Video
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Thurs Jul 10, 2025 11:32am PST
Wild Orcas Filmed Offering Gifts of Food to Humans
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