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vilc wrote: May 24th, 2026, 10:12 am The proof is quite interesting. Is the result that rule 90 has agars of all periods found in earlier litterature?

Probably, but I didn't find it in a few of the obvious places, or else I would've just cited them for it.

Blinkerspawn and I have been working on some results derived from the above in the discord, and have determined that the p6 and 8 agars are both embeddings of stripe oscillators into the form of phoenix agars. (specifically, they're a simple background pattern XORed with the specified stripe ...

Some qfind results from testing the new patch that improved manycore utilization

time ./qfind -r B3/S23 -v c/9 -w 8 -s gutter -q 20 -h 20 -t 256:
0 spaceships found.
Maximum depth reached: 503
Longest partial result:

x = 17, y = 55, rule = B3/S23
3b2o7b2o$3bob2o3b2obo2$4bo7bo$4bo7bo$5bobobobo ...

xs23_3h4ehik8z0178d via transfer
#CLL state-numbering golly
x = 344, y = 72, rule = B3/S23
193bobo$194b2o$194bo$198bobo$199b2o$199bo3$19bo$19bobo$19b2o5$7bob
o$8b2o4bo43bo202bobo$8bo3b2o45b2o200b2o$13b2o6bo36b2o202bo$obo16b
2o$b2o17b2o44bo44bobo$bo64bobo42b2o$66b2o44bo2$57b2o2b2o6b2o32b2o ...

Ran a bunch of transfer searches targeting still lives with C1 soups but no synths, committed to Shinjuku https://gitlab.com/parclytaxel/Shinjuku/-/commit/a1c179242ddf6076f45f9c41db63d96a46aaca04

This reduced the number of such objects from 148034 to 10728 (92.7% solve rate), list of the remaining ...

xs22_3h4ehaczc9521 via transfer

wanted xs24_3h4ehjzc9521023 (pseudo) in 9986, costs 21, reduces target xs22_3h4ehaczc9521, found at depth 4, used in
#CLL state-numbering golly
x = 171, y = 40, rule = B3/S23
19bo$19bobo$19b2o5$7bobo$8b2o4bo$8bo3b2o98bo$13b2o6bo91b2o$obo16b
2o91b2o ...

I decided to run some more xs22 transfer runs, and this current run I keep thinking "I'll just run it until it stops getting solves and then submit the results and make a post" and it keeps not happening.
traversed 31139000 nodes in 538500.814518109 seconds, 29987919 unique intermediates, queue ...

Ran some transfer searches, 394 solved, 1519 remaining. Submitted to nonmagical box.
Unsynthed with soups lists attached.

Unsynthed xs22 added to catagolue for easier tracking https://catagolue.hatsya.com/census/b3s ... ffset=1800
1913 at time of writing.

Came back to this to get the implication information, also ran another search. 1926 unsynthed. New synths have been submitted via nonmagical box (should be about 400 kB of margin left in contrib.sjk after conversion).

Attached a list of all the unsynthed-xs22 apgcodes, too, since that's not ...

Transfer pass (and some recursive searches, which knocked down the after-depth-1 remaining count of about 10k down significantly) complete, 2804 unsynthed
commit: https://gitlab.com/parclytaxel/Shinjuku/-/commit/418ccf74ba8061cbbaf1326e2574d62de1b48bd6
It will take an unknown amount of time for this ...

Given that the list of unsynthesized 22-bit still lifes is more than three times greater, at 672172, it appears that more time is needed to process these still lifes. After that, most of the 22-bit still lifes will be synthesized.


Yes. I'm running an all-targets depth-1 transfer run, but I also ...

DON'T PANIC - this thread is at this time essentially a placeholder, created to acknowledge that the xs21 synthesis project has been completed. There has been minimal automated effort put into the xs22, and no manual synthesis effort is requested. For the next while the primary objective of this ...

Congratulations to all, and especially to May13!
Elapsed time: 448 days (plus or minus one)

Looks like transfer's part is done. I'm still running it, but getting no additional traction.

Transfer solved xs21_4ap5a8oz0c9611 and xs21_j9a4oz115a952, 20 remaining
x = 847, y = 126, rule = B3/S23
4$788bo$787bo$787b3o2$742bo$17bo724bobo42bo$15bobo143bo39bo50bo47bo39b
obo8bo43bo38bo42bo37bo42bo47bo42bo43bo40bo7b2o36bo5bobo38bo$16b2o56b2o ...

Transfer solved xs21_ckg4qajozw343, 27 remaining.

#CLL state-numbering golly
x = 637, y = 56, rule = B3/S23
227bo$225b2o$226b2o2$276bo$275bo$275b3o4$310bo$308bobo$309b2o$333b
o$333bobo$333b2o$10bo304bo$9bo303bobo$9b3o302b2o2$5bo201bo251bo$6b
o198b2o53bo74bo122bo39bo5bo ...

Transfer solved xs21_8kiabkk8zx3452, 32 remaining

x = 474, y = 51, rule = B3/S23
52bo$53bo$51b3o3$62bo$63b2o$62b2o5$53bobo19bo$54b2o19bobo$54bo9bo
10b2o40bo340bobo$63bo6bobo42bobo341b2o$11b2o50b3o4b2o44b2o341bo6bo
$7bo3bobo37bo7b2o10bo393bo$5bobo3bo40bo5bobo404b3o$6b2o42b3o7bo10b
o ...

Transfer solved xs21_0gad1eoz320f9, xs21_0i5di4ozc97011, xs21_g84o796z9f023, xs21_g84q596z9f023, 50 remaining.

edit:
Transfer also solved xs21_0gad1eoz320f9, which was the last one with a soup in C1.
Only xs21_cikmharzx641, xs21_8kk6pjgozx346, and xs21_4ap5a8oz0c9611 have any soups in official ...

Could you also return the soup counts in symmetric soups? They are helpful for syntheses too.



Symmetric soups are a little more tricky, the below is iirc actually summed occurrence count (e.g. a 4x symmetric soup where an sl shows up four times would count for four)
xs21_8kk6p2sgz02543 - 18 ...

Ran transfer, solved 28, 98 remain (those listed on cata minus xs21_mq0cp3z65w123)

don't have implications yet, soupcounts in C1:

Under 300 left (291)
Implications:
xs24_6246p56z3213453 (64366 soups) implies xs21_65p68oz35871, xs21_65p6kk8z3543
xs16_6s1raa4zw1 (30593 soups) implies xs21_4apjgz3ege21
xs22_g84c0fpz9f0321 (1680 soups) implies xs21_0cq1rgbrz32, xs21_cq1rgbrz23
xs22_31km2kozw124628c (556 soups) implies xs21 ...

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1. In response to "how else to monetize CGOL" my suggestion would be "simply do not"

2. With regards to the high-end physical art market, yes, that is also largely run off of a combination of money laundering and grift, much like NFTs.

EDIT:

3. When opening with "this would need community buy-in ...

Rather than attempting to increase the number of communities obsessed with meaningless grift, I would suggest instead not doing this.