Revisiting the First Blackboard Problem in Good Will Hunting
The four tasks in the film’s first blackboard problem, from a multigraph and walk-counting matrices to generating functions and spectral ideas.
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Interstellar – The Real End
A short satirical alternate ending. Gravitation and starvation are real but I believe the latter feels more real.
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Current investigations include guitar physics, scientific modelling, indoor airflow and numerical experiments. These projects and their repositories are private; selected results may be published here later when they are ready.