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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.

recent activity (18,658 total)
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You've pointed to a generic landing page, and I can't find the page you might have intended to post.
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The post where I found this was a continuation of a thread that started with a post[0] by Terence Tao saying: "In recent weeks there have been a number of examples of Erdos problems that were so…
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The discussion[0] appears to be over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482345 That's a direct link to the raw graph, not to the comment that gives relevance, but never…
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Still not answering the question. What you quote from the FAQ tells you what it "[Dead]" means, it doesn't tell you how to find posts marked as "Flagged". The FAQ tells you th…
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I don't think you are answering the question. The poster here is asking how they can find posts, possibly by anyone, that other users have flagged. What is there in the Guidelines and FAQ will a…
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The algorithm fits in a screenshot: https://mathstodon.xyz/@robinhouston/115821134807127928 …
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Yeah, looks like the post was deleted.
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Not sure it's entirely relevant, but I'm pretty sure that research done for instrumentation in aeroplane flight decks shows that information is transferred faster and more reliably from the …
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Probably just auto-correct ... but it's "red herring".
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles…
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