Peter Westmacott has a degree in Theology, a love of programming acquired during childhood and nearly a decade of professional programming experience in pensions, social games and cloud services.
He likes concision, correctness and epistemology.
Talks I've Given
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Lightning Talk: Building A Simulation-Based Text Adventure
Featuring Peter Westmacott
In this talk, you will discover update on an ambitious text-based game Peter has been making. Inspired by the work of the late René Girard, the renowned philosopher of social science, Peter is aiming to create a simulation-driven world in which the themes of contagious violence and the practice...
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Lightning Talks Session 2
Featuring William Hamilton, Peter Westmacott and Daniel Janus
Join us for these speedy sessions by Clojure experts!
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The Territorial Prisoner’s Dilemma
Featuring Peter Westmacott
In this talk, you will learn how little code is needed to run computational simulations, and how easy this is with a modern high level language like ClojureScript. By way of an example I will be simulating the prisoner’s dilemma, as a one-off game, as an iterated tournament and as an ongoing...
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