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5 unusual facts about J. Doyne Farmer


J. Doyne Farmer

During this time the group built a series of computers that were capable of calculating the motion of a moving ball, and trials in Las Vegas showed success.

The Eudaemons were a small group headed by graduate physics students Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the late 1970s.

Farmer and Packard's work towards predicting outcomes of roulette games, along with their actual attempt at a Las Vegas casino, has been featured in the 2004 Breaking Vegas series documentary, "Beat the Wheel".

Doyne went to graduate school at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied chaos theory and the physics of roulette.

Although born in Houston, Texas, he spent most of his early life in Silver City, New Mexico, where he first developed an interest in physics.



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