Field notes on a pocket universe
How much joy, and how much accidental engineering, you get from refusing to stop playing with a rule you can learn in a minute.
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How much joy, and how much accidental engineering, you get from refusing to stop playing with a rule you can learn in a minute.
How a colony of two-line-of-code ants can find food around a maze — and why, surprisingly, the intelligence lives in the floor and not the feet.
How a simple estimate transforms a blind search into a guided one — and why the guarantee holds.
I was talking with a friend the other day about how learning the basics of game development did so much more for my understanding of linear algebra than any exercise in a class ever did. This is a short artifact to help show and explore some of the concepts.