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A not-so-random walk through random walks
Though I’ve been interested of late with the idea of random walks, I was introduced to the concept when, more than two decades ago, I stumbled across Conway’s Game of Life, the cellular automaton built by John Conway in 1970. … Continue reading
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Tagged animal foraging, Brownian bridge, Brownian motion, cellular automata, Conway's Game of Life, fractals, gamma distribution, Gaussian distribution, heavy tail, John Conway, Langton's ant, Lévy flight, probability distribution function, random walk, random walk hypothesis, resistor networks, Sierpienski triangle, statistical properties, stochastic processes, Wiener process
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