Will Lockhart
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute on the Environment (IonE) @ University of Minnesota. Research scientist in sustainability, astrophysicist, and director of the first feature documentary on the game of Go.
You can reach me at wlock@umn.edu.
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Misc
Some random things on the web you might enjoy:
- Conway’s Game of Life - glider guns, are you kiddin’ me!? Explore the original cellular automata, one of the best demonstrations of emergence ever created
- A Mathematician’s Lament - a brilliant critique of the standard K-12 school system and how school destroys curiosity
- Anagrams code - a program I wrote in python to play a perfect game of Anagrams. See the README for an explanation of the game and how to run the program
- thegreatestbooks.org - A list of the all-time greatest works of fiction and non-fiction, compiled via a weighted average of dozens of best-of lists from across the web
- Our world in data - a project to make research and data on the world’s biggest challenges – poverty, war, climate change, etc - accessible to the public
- This video showing the growth of human civilization throughout history
- Markov-chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) interactive gallery
- Euclidea - the compass and straight-edge puzzle challenge
More coming soon…