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ColinWright

136,193karma·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.

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No idea. Sometime when it's not being hammered you can ask them ... it's not my instance. And I don't know what my instance is running on ... I have a tech co-mod who deals with it. …
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Suffering the HN Hug of Death. Text reads: And just like that—surprise!—one AI company bails out another AI company's grift. Google agreeing to rent compute from xAI (cough, "SpaceX") …
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HN Hug of Death ...
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I drew a graph of connections between Paul Graham essays, and coloured them via a PageRank-style weighting algorithm. I emailed it to PG, and he suggested I post it here.
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Is it too much to ask that when giving a book review, a link to the actual book title, and possibly a listing on a website, should be prominently given?
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33: Lawyer A began chatting with the firm's AI on 20th March 2026 following receipt of my query of that date. What is remarkable when reading those chats is, first, that one would think that the …
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