Alastair Jamieson-lane

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Hey hey everybody.

I'm Alastair. Let's see... ummm... I'm from New Zealand. I'm currently studying evolutionary game theory with Christoph Hauret at the university of British Columbia. I'm here because... I study mathematics, and mathematics is very much a subject which needs to be applied to things, and I like the huge variety of subjects and applications we'll be studying here.

Outside Mathematics I'm most interested in Computer creativity (eg programming self generating games, stories etc) board game design and story writing. I love morally ambiguous characters and my favorite book is Red Mars. If you haven't read that book you should. Preferably right now.

My super powers include programming, building mathematical models, asking random questions, a slightly obsessive nature and a legally questionable interest in architecture.

My super weaknesses include organisation, handwriting, dependence on sleep, a slightly obsessive nature and inability to come up with coherent lists.

I'm really hoping to work on twoish projects this summer. Also, if anyone is interested in self generating platform games I'm currently seeing if I can rope people in on a project I'm working on.

If you need to find me, I'm in room 16 of Urania, so that's the front corner of the building right next to the linen swap room. Feel free to knock on my door and/or windows... not sure how often I'll be there though. There's also email, but I'm not sure how wise it is to put an email address up on a public page- will that attract spambots? Who knows, whatever.

Oh also- here is a link to the random questions I've been asking. I hope to have a different one each day. Feel free to add your answers with or without a name and/or explanation. Alastair/randomQuestions

I'm also interested in story writing (usually short stories) and programming self generating platform games and other forms of computer creativity... so if either of those sound like fun get in touch.

Oh and finally- umm... I do mathematics... so if you have questions about any of the mathematics we're doing, or something you want to try for project, or any other thing, I might be able to help... it's not ALL stuff I've seen before, but I've generally got a fairly reasonable idea, and some of these things I've studied quiet a bit.