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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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I find Stillwell's writings to be exceptionally clear and accessible, and I recommend them. It will be interesting to see if Tao's writings are as clear, though possibly he is targetting a d…
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This seems to be exactly the opposite of what I was describing. While I had a LinkedIn account I was not receiving spam. When I deleted my account, the spam started, and continues to this day.(+) (+…
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I used to have a LinkedIn account, a long time ago. To register I created an email address that was unique to LinkedIn, and pretty much unguessable ... certainly not amenable to a dictionary attack. …
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Trying to pay a bill. On the website ... it took 24 minutes to navigate to the right place. Then they needed 2FA, so they emailed it to her. Now she's supposed to open her email while keeping t…
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Looking at the front page now and I cannot see it. Do you have a link? (pause) Ah, now on the second page ... Thanks for letting me know.
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This is a fascinating experiment! I've just been reading the first few paragraphs of the paper ... easily readable, intended to be accessible by anyone. In Gauss's time mathematicians would…
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No, but a friend of mine made a nomogram to do that.
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A slide rule is casually used by the General in "Fantastic Voyage"
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Funny you ask ... I lieterally just now pulled out one of my slide rules to keep track of the required run rate for a cricket T20 game. Fastest and best feedback for whether the batting team is ahead …
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The title I've chosen here is carefully selected to highlight one of the main points. It comes (lightly edited for length) from this paragraph: Far more insidious, however, was something else w…
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