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Just looking at the Patterns of the Year list on the Wiki, and it only goes to 2023. Any idea when we get 2024?

I thought this might be a fun read for the members of this forum:
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46412766e34ef

NOTE: Dates in this hard science fiction space opera universe are given in years after Apollo 11, unless otherwise noted.

Thanks!
Hope for even more progress in this decade, as AI advances...

Does star gate actually violate "life relativity"? If so, how can that be possible?

The ultimate Life simulator:
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46412766e34ef

Are the candidates for 2017 and 2016 still available to see?
I would like to know what they were.

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Could you provide a link to the thread? Or is this the thread?

When will the voting be held? Am I eligible to vote?

I always see 10 of 92 did you knows on the wiki page.
But one of them refers to Sir Robin from this year.
Are did you knows deleted when one is added?

Use this to write your secret messages:
http://omniglot.com/conscripts/conway.htm

With the year over a third finished, we only have two patterns: http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Category:Patterns_found_in_2018
The Pattern of the Year competition normally has at least a dozen entries:
http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Pattern_of_the_Year
except for the Snark in 2013 (Sir Robin will ...

Any easy way of seeing all the Best Pattern of the Year and the runnerup for each year?

Donate an article on the Game of Life to the Memory of Mankind:
https://www.memory-of-mankind.com/

I just put up an avatar
The lower text reads "SHARKS (crossed out) MONGEESE (sic) WITH FRICKIN' LASER BEAMS ATTACHED TO THEIR HEADS"

Is there a sort of Idiot's Guide to Golly for Dummies ? that would help a newbie like me download it to their system (Mac in my case), learn the notation, tips for finding good patterns, etc.?

Just click the download links. Then we have:

- Set Algorithm and Set Rule in the Control menu
- Next ...

dvgrn:
What are the formulae for calculating those "magic constants"?

Saka wrote:

M. I. Wright wrote: Looks like anyone over 48 is out of luck, by the way

I don't think anybody here is that old. Except Bullet51.

March 5, 1958 for me.
I dabbled with Life on an Apple ][ Plus (and learned programming on punch cards...each punch machine was defective in its own way).

Go to the SCP Foundation http://www.scp-wiki.net/ and write an SCP for them based on a life pattern.

Majestas32 wrote:Somebody did experiments and it turned out to be 37.5% for Life. For Highlife or 2x2 and related it's more like 40%

I suspect that the somebody tried 20 densities from 25% to 75%.

What's the best density for a soup? I know 1 and 0 are pessimal, would 0.5 be optimal?

How about things where we don't even have a conjecture as to the answer, much less a theorem?

I had a little trouble opening it. Perhaps you could put Golly on the App Store?

Maybe long-lasting patterns that don't make the forum's standard for methuselahs could be called "jareds"?

Is there a sort of Idiot's Guide to Golly for Dummies? that would help a newbie like me download it to their system (Mac in my case), learn the notation, tips for finding good patterns, etc.?