
I wish I'd gotten a good photo back before we had flat screens. The best first impression of the floor I ever heard (second hand) was that of a colleague's mother over a decade ago: "My God. It's a digital sweatshop!".
Random thoughts and anecdotes, hopefully with some direction.
In addition to being a fairly straightforward metapor for how I think and write and learn, Drift and Diffusion are mathematical terms. "Drift" is (usually) a deterministic effect like Newton's laws and "Diffusion" is a random effect like molecular bombardment.
The most picturesque description I know is the route of a dandelion seed in a stream. The current is drift, and all the while water molecules are causing tiny oscillations that keep the motion from being predictable and smooth. Such mathematical models played a role in my (fading) thesis work, and in quantitative finance.