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ColinWright

136,194karma·18,658submissions·December 14, 2009
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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.

recent activity (18,658 total)
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If you're going to quote wikipedia: > "Zéro est le seul nombre qui est à la fois réel, positif, négatif et imaginaire pur." From: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
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You need to be careful about this ... I believe that in France (for example) zero is regarded as both positive and negative. So in France: Non-negative integers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... Positive integers:…
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Full title: "What every programmer absolutely, positively needs to know about encodings and character sets to work with text"
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The text of the post where I saw this has this take: > "So, they're going to make AI generated (and hosted) podcasts because they only need 20 people to listen to it in order to turn a p…
11mo ago·view thread
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I saw this here: https://mathstodon.xyz/@jamey@toot.cat/115162618544000037 That post says: > I found an interesting paper about turning plastics into syngas. (Syngas is a mix…
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The story has been discussed elsewhere, but this video has models, demonstrations, and an interview with one of the authors of the paper. Discussion of the article in Quanta here: https://n…
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