User:Lightbloom

Blackburn Meadows at the golden hour

Wikipedia editor

I live in Yorkshire, England. I specialise in computer programming.

My guiding principles

• Simple is better^{[N 1]}
• Perspective is key^{[N 2]}
• That which is not written is forgotten^{[N 3]}
• There is a time and place for everything^{[N 4]}
• The best way to get the right answer is to say the wrong answer^{[N 5]}

Articles I find interesting

Collections

• List of fallacies
• List of optical illusions
• List of cognitive biases
• List of 1960s musical artists
• List of ongoing armed conflicts
• Chronology of the universe
• Timeline of historic inventions

Singular articles

• Tesseract
• Randomness
• Hydra (genus)
• Fermi paradox
• Mandelbrot set
• Standard Model
• Pathetic fallacy
• Approximations of π
• Conway's Game of Life
• Fast inverse square root
• Sword-billed hummingbird
• Stabilimentum (web decorations)
• Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly

References

Notes

1. Based on da Vinci, L. (2011), The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Vol. 2, Dover Publications, Incorporated, p. 126 no. 837, ISBN 9780486138367, Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
2. See Pale Blue Dot
3. Unattributed but an echoed sentiment
4. Based on Ecclesiastes 3
5. See Cunningham's Law, conjecture, time heals all wounds