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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Sat Feb 22, 2025 1:02pm PST
Doge and the Coming Tsunami
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Fri Feb 21, 2025 3:27pm PST
Apple yanks encrypted storage in U.K. instead of allowing backdoor access
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Fri Feb 21, 2025 10:20am PST
A Man Built an Omnidirectional Motorcycle with Balls for Wheels
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Thurs Feb 20, 2025 4:34pm PST
Using WiFi RF signals, ML, & AR, we built a device which enables X-Ray vision
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Thurs Feb 20, 2025 2:39pm PST
What removing large chunks of brain taught me about selfhood
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Thurs Feb 20, 2025 12:43pm PST
Emerging E Expanded
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Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:54pm PST
What are Majorana zero modes?
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Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:07am PST
The asteroid posing the greatest threat of collision is called 2024 YR₄
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Mon Feb 17, 2025 9:39pm PST
Toronto 'Plane Crash Submissions
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Mon Feb 17, 2025 8:16pm PST
A cutaway drawing showing the intricate network under London's Piccadilly Circus
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Sat Feb 15, 2025 8:38pm PST
Is the ArXiv safe from the current US Government attacks?
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Sat Feb 15, 2025 12:53pm PST
Four Pieces Is Optimal
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Sat Feb 15, 2025 12:37pm PST
Surprisingly Quick (2016)
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Fri Feb 14, 2025 10:02pm PST
Enrichment? Sorry, it's not in the exam
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Fri Feb 14, 2025 5:22pm PST
Bombed Fresco: Using Math to Piece Together a Lost Treasure (2011)
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Fri Feb 14, 2025 5:13pm PST
Talk: How can maths unlock art's hidden secrets?
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Fri Feb 14, 2025 3:44pm PST
Bitly injecting ads into shortened links
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Fri Feb 14, 2025 3:31pm PST
Law firm restricts AI after 'significant' staff use
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Thurs Feb 13, 2025 6:43pm PST
Bash Pipes
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Thurs Feb 13, 2025 12:02pm PST
What Happens When You Stop Drinking?
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Wed Feb 12, 2025 11:12am PST
Tea Extensions [pdf] (2006)
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Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:51am PST
Elo World, a framework for benchmarking weak chess engines [pdf]
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Tues Feb 11, 2025 9:33pm PST
David John Wheeler
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Tues Feb 11, 2025 12:52pm PST
A Small Contribution to Curl
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Mon Feb 10, 2025 10:00pm PST
My favourite way to learn is by breaking things and seeing what happens!
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Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:52pm PST
Thinkserver: My web-based coding environment
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Sun Feb 9, 2025 6:18pm PST
The "Need for Chaos" Voter
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Sun Feb 9, 2025 6:10pm PST
Reconstruction from Uncalibrated Sequences with a Hierarchy of Trifocal Tensors
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Sat Feb 8, 2025 4:16pm PST
A Critical Analysis of the What3Words Geocoding Algorithm (2023)
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Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:58pm PST
Endless.downward.spiral – is this the beginning of the end of What3Words?
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Sat Feb 8, 2025 12:00pm PST
Stares and ear-twitches: The linguist learning the expressive language of cows
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Sat Feb 8, 2025 11:33am PST
Leslie Lamport: The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science with Math [video]
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Sat Feb 8, 2025 11:31am PST
Computing Expert Says Programmers Need More Math
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Fri Feb 7, 2025 9:42pm PST
Strong Law of Small Numbers
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Fri Feb 7, 2025 9:32pm PST
DARPA announces a program entitled "Exponentiating Mathematics"
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Fri Feb 7, 2025 6:18pm PST
La gran meridiana de Montbéliard
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Thurs Feb 6, 2025 3:48pm PST
Transfinite NIM (the game, not the programming language)
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Wed Feb 5, 2025 9:40am PST
Google owner Alphabet drops promise over 'harmful' AI uses
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Tues Feb 4, 2025 11:33pm PST
Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk
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Mon Jan 27, 2025 4:52pm PST
A Chinese AI advancement called DeepSeek is sending US stocks plunging
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Fri Jan 24, 2025 9:03pm PST
Computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on X during 2024 election [pdf]
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Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:56am PST
Harvard-trained expert: I have anxiety
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Sat Jan 18, 2025 9:50pm PST
Kalman Filter Tutorial
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Sat Jan 18, 2025 2:52pm PST
Characters in Moby Dick according to Google ... I don't remember Yosemite Sam
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Fri Jan 17, 2025 9:23pm PST
How do playing cards work? No one knows
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Fri Jan 17, 2025 7:20pm PST
The Surprising Afterlife of Used Hotel Soap
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Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:40pm PST
Say bye to Tesla Cybertruck: Elon Musk announces decision after fall in sales
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Thurs Jan 16, 2025 4:15pm PST
First carbon-14 diamond battery
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Thurs Jan 16, 2025 10:15am PST
Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia
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Wed Jan 15, 2025 12:04pm PST
I built a QR code with my bare hands to see how it works [video]
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Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:47am PST
Dark patterns: It's not a real checkbox, but an SVG lookalike
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