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I think that article should continue to refer to B2a as a transition.

Why? Do you think that's particularly intuitive or readable, from the viewpoint of a LifeWiki reader / beginner?

I recognise that your position has your own logic behind it which is intuitive to you. However, I ...

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confocaloid wrote: April 25th, 2024, 4:16 pm That paragraph should be rewritten to say instead...

I think that article should continue to refer to B2a as a transition.

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For posterity, so silversmith's post from a good few days ago doesn't appear like the last word on the subject: the majority view and only sense of the term for most of its existence is that the LifeWiki definition of the term "drifter" is, strictly speaking, incorrect and is generally understood as ...

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I managed to get it working following those instructions. However, there is an error in the apgsearch script I wanted to run (hacked apgsearch 1.0): "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'urllib2'".

apgsearch 0.x and 1.x are for Python 2.x and Golly 3.x only. Modern versions of apgsearch use C ...

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Last time I checked, eater one does not have a transparent debris effect, and is used to eat small spaceships and sparks, I've never heard of a transparent reaction with eater one before. If there is one of these transparent debris reactions with an eater one then it would almost certainly be the ...

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I reduced it :)

Welcome to the forums!

The point of the oscillators above was to rephase the 50P9 on the bottom though, so while this could be considered a reduction in some sense, it doesn't really serve a purpose anymore.

Based on 35P12: are there any other oscillators where this ...

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it's just the first Mona Lisa, there are millions others.

Well, the first Mona Lisa is a masterpiece and a perfect demonstration of the artistic skills of the famous and influential Leonardo da Vinci, while the millions of other Mona Lisas are demonstrations of just how easy and common it is to ...

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simsim314 wrote: October 19th, 2021, 1:39 pm Would you pay 5$ for the original Mona Lisa? Why? You can print it from google images for much cheaper. It just the first painting.

Legal concerns aside, $5 for the original Mona Lisa is a ridiculously good deal for the buyer, while the Google Images print is a scam.

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I'm not entirely up to date with what NFTs actually are: what I know is that they're marketable formalities, something that can be created, owned, bought and sold but are nothing, in that they are not physical objects, nor software, nor numbers on paper or a computer equivalent to money, nor ...

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pcallahan wrote: October 9th, 2021, 7:12 pmIn my mind, it has gone from "What a terrible idea, and who would even want that?" to "I wouldn't mind if it worked, but it obviously won't." (That's a real position change, right?)

Indeed, you have gone from vigorously opposing it to… hypothetically not opposing it. (???)

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thanks for the info

(Here's a tip: now that the forums have the like post feature, you can just heart the response rather than posting a separate message to thank!)

[…] it never speeds up at quite the speed that I want it to speed up, anyway.

How is Hyperspeed's speed-up calculated? I ...

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I checked the obvious 9G possibilities -- two-blinkers-plus-beehive in 3G, or beehive-plus-phi-spark in 3G -- but nothing came up, and I didn't see anything else to try.

There was the positioning of the green glider in the second step, which with a lucky collision might've gotten rid of the TL ...

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yujh wrote: September 1st, 2021, 3:47 pm where, is the number of objects?is all isotopic rules like this?

No, the census name is just too long to fit the object count with.

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Sokwe wrote: August 28th, 2021, 7:32 am Edit: does the following pattern or any of its relatives have a name?
Code: Select all
x = 5, y = 3, rule = B3/S23
3o$3bo$3b2o!

"Thompson's 6-bit methuselah" according to mniemiec's database.

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Solved the two remaining 16-bit p2s:
x = 111, y = 65, rule = B3/S23
35bo$34bo$34b3o2$11bo$12bo$bo8b3o82bo$2bo91bo$3o91b3o$32bo$31bo60b2o$
31b3o58b2o5$86b2o$7bo78bobobo$5bobo82bo18bo$6b2o80bo2bo4b2o10bo$96b2o
10b3o$86bobobobo$86b2o3b2o8bobo$101b2o$102bo$78bo$79bo2b2o11b2o5b2o$
77b3obo2bo10b2o5b2o ...

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Some changes to Catagolue have just been made.

Most notably, the maximum response size is now 32 MB (as opposed to 1 MB), allowing for Catagolue to store the entirety of xs21s and xs22s (maybe xs23s too) in b3s23/synthesis-costs without having to modify too much of the src.

Total memory has been ...

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Next pattern:
x = 6, y = 6, rule = B3/S23
bo$bo$b2o$2bo$obob2o$2b2o!

Eaten:
x = 22, y = 19, rule = B3/S23
6b2o$6b2o$2o$bo19bo$bobo15b3o$2b2o14bo$18b2o$9bo$9bo$9b2o$10bo$8bobob
2o$10b2o3$17b2o$10b2o5bo$10b2o6b3o$20bo!

Next:
x = 10, y = 10, rule = B3/S23
o$b2o$2o2b2o$4b2o4$3bo3b3o$3b2o ...

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muzik wrote: August 20th, 2021, 12:12 pm This is already the case and has been for a decade:

Wait, I thought the blue was supposed to be the head and the white the tail.

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That's weird, because this following overflow implies the existence of some sort of 32-bit integer data type:

Interesting - Number cannot overflow, as any number larger than about 1.8×10^38 is rounded up to Infinity. Additionally, no numeric types built-in to JavaScript are signed.

However ...

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pzq_alex wrote: August 18th, 2021, 12:03 am
LifeWiki article on LifeHistory wrote: State 5: start alive; enters state 4 upon death, and will never reappear during evolution.
Code: Select all
x = 5, y = 5, rule = LifeHistory
.A$2.A$3A2$4.E!
[[ AUTOSTART GPS 8 T 0 PAUSE 1 T 4 PAUSE 1 T 8 PAUSE 0.5 LOOP 30 ]]

yes this is intentional move on

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So I assume the only data type for numbers is a 64-bit float, and there are no natively supported integer-only or such data types?

There are two - Number and BigInt (infinite-length integer); BigInt is relatively new and for compatibility with older browsers like Internet Explorer, which nobody ...

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Entity Valkyrie 2 wrote: August 15th, 2021, 7:06 pm next one (do not eat this):
Code: Select all
x = 5, y = 5, rule = B3/S23
2b2o$3b2o$2b2o$obo$bo!

H':

Code: Select all

x = 22, y = 18, rule = B3/S23
20b2o$20b2o4$15b2o$16b2o$15b2o$13bobo$14bo5$2o$o$b3o$3bo!

x = 5, y = 7, rule = B3/S23
3bo$2b3o$b2obo2$ob2o$3o$bo!

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I have a questions about catagolue. How can one find the rle files for
zz_EXPLOSIVE
zz_LINEAR
zz_QUADRATIC
zz_REPLICATOR and
PATHOLOGICAL, and what does there name represent?

These aren't apgcodes, and as such have no RLE files. Check the sample soups. These are blanket terms, since apgsearch ...

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Patterns initially entirely dead will not show "Life ended at generation N" when sparks are drawn in while the viewer is running, until the viewer is paused and a pattern drawn in; is this intended?

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ColorfulGabrielsp138 wrote: July 29th, 2021, 9:15 am What's "Heins ketchup varieties"?

The number of varieties of Heinz ketchup. If you look at a bottle of Heinz ketchup, it says "57 Heinz varieties".

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