Ken Shirriff's blog

If you came here from Hacker News, thanks for visiting. You might want to check out the Hacker News comment thread too. The Mandelbrot fr...

I recently learned that cells are extremely crowded and busy places. I knew there's a lot of activity in cells, but I didn't realiz...

Recently I was at a multi-day volleyball tournament, which gave me plenty of time to ponder the mathematics of the game. At different point...

I recently wound up on CNN for a couple seconds doing some Arduino hacking as part of a segment on Google's workshops. Click the image ...

I attended a very interesting talk "All Questions Answered" by the famous computer science professor Don Knuth in March, where he ...