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murtazahr/README.md

Hey 👋 I'm Murtaza

PhD researcher at the University of Melbourne, working at the intersection of distributed systems and machine learning. Previously a software engineer at Goldman Sachs.

Website · Google Scholar · LinkedIn · X

Conway's Game of Life, seeded by my commits

My contribution graph playing Conway's Game of Life

From generation 45, the colony alternates between 2 forms with a steady population of 7 cells.

Founded by 122 cells, one for each day I contributed in the last year · updated 30 Sep 2026

What is this?

Every day, a GitHub Action takes my contribution graph from the past year and turns every day I committed into a live cell. Then it runs Conway's Game of Life on it:

  • a live cell with 2 or 3 live neighbours survives,
  • a dead cell with exactly 3 live neighbours comes alive,
  • everything else dies.

The grid wraps around at the edges. The colony either goes extinct, settles at a stable population, falls into a repeating cycle, or is still evolving after 150 generations. The caption says which happened.

See the code →

More about me 
based_in: Melbourne, Australia
now: PhD, Engineering & IT @ University of Melbourne
before:
  - Software Engineering Analyst @ Goldman Sachs
  - Summer Analyst, full-stack & quant dev @ Goldman Sachs
  - Software Architect Intern @ Photobook Worldwide
studied: Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours) @ Monash University

Research and publications live on my website and Google Scholar.

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  1. Cloudslab/murmura Cloudslab/murmura Public

    A decentralized/P2P federated learning library

    Python 8 2

  2. kafila-research/protocol kafila-research/protocol Public

    Session layer for Kafila: rendezvous, client, and network reachability. No cgo, no dependencies.

    Go

  3. Cloudslab/TrustMesh Cloudslab/TrustMesh Public

    TrustMesh is a blockchain-enabled distributed computing framework designed for trustless heterogeneous IoT environments

    Python 3 6

  4. sketchguard sketchguard Public

    Forked from Cloudslab/murmura

    A decentralized/P2P federated learning library

    Python