Nicolas Bouliane

Notes

It’s that time of the year where I sit down and seriously think about my resolutions for the next year. I take those seriously.

This time, I think a lot of Swizec’s recent visualisation of a drunkard’s walk. If he takes each step in a random direction, he will never stumble further than the square root of the number of steps.

Visualisation of a drunkard's walk

But if you bias his steps 10% in a given direction, look at him go!

Visualisation of a drunkard's walk with a 10% bias

This is how I see new year resolutions, less as an oath, but as a 10% bias in some direction.