The Eudaemonic Pie
The Eudaemonic Pie chronicles the arrival and genius of Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard, grad students from New Mexico who find themselves at UC Santa Cruz, and their cohabitants in a housing cooperative, and other members of a cabal of eudaemons who attempt to beat the house at roulette in 1974—before the Apple I—by building, programming, and training computers embedded inside their shoes. Unable to arrive at a suitable dissertation topic, they stumble into and write one of the first papers in chaos theory.
