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NNlk05

Does anyone know a good way to filter nbsearch results? apgsearch stdin won't work, as there's only one "soup".

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This sounds weird out of context

Goldtiger997 wrote: July 11th, 2018, 2:25 am The sun can be hasseled at many different periods.

NNlk05

Is the voting going to start soon?
Nobody has made any nominations for a while, so if you want your pattern to be the OCA discovery of the year, you should do it now! :mrgreen:

Here you go. It's almost September now, so I may as well start it.

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#1 HexaSmodel (islptng)
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D2_1 Blogic. A very interesting rule that has great potential for engineering.

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... due to my mistakes, I think it is better for someone else to host it...

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Alright, someone bring out a circuitry rule or the ruletable searcher...

We don't need all that

x = 44, y = 9, rule = B3/S23Super
6.3X.3X.3X.3X.3X.X.X.3X.3X2.X.3X$6.X.X.X.X3.X.X3.X3.X.X3.X3.X2.X.X.X$
6.3X.3X3.X.3X.3X.3X.3X.3X2.X.X.X$8.X.X.X3.X.X.X3.X3.X3.X.X4.X.X.X$6.3X
.3X3.X.3X.3X3.X.3X.3X2 ...

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Raw overnight C4_4 nbsearch2a dump:
x = 24804, y = 12530, rule = B3-ekqr4jz5cy6n/S2-in3-cekq4aw5-ce
26bo248b3o247b3o249bo246b5o246b3o246b5o246b3o247b3o248bo4b3o242bo5bo
243bo4b3o242bo4b3o242bo6bo242bo3b5o241bo4b3o242bo3b5o241bo4b3o242bo4b ...

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How do you face the fact that land shape appears from local or nearby character system?
That is absolutely not bias.

Explain how this pattern resembles the Chinese character "日" (Sun, pronounced rì ) turning into a shape resembling Sri Lanka near India?
x = 8, y = 13, rule = B3/S23
b6o$o6bo ...

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Here's the CGoL screensaver I use right now. There may be a way to turn this into a video.

: 2026-09-07_08-08.png (841.25 KiB) Viewed 49 times

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Now the week is up... can TheWayOfTheCon, WhiteHawk, and R2INT recast their votes?

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I'm thinking about giving this rule a LifeWiki article. Would it pass the notability guidelines?

General notability guideline
If a topic has received coverage in external sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article ...

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g0t0 wrote: Yesterday, 8:07 am Conjecture: the are no infinite growth in a row of n cells.

Overturn by counterexample

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Crossposting this discussion from Discord (all errors [sic]).

NNlk05 started a thread: The AROSICA project: A Real OS In CA
NNlk05: *A copy of the first post of this thread here*
NNlk05: see the forums thread (links to the thread)
speedydelete: for maximizing recursive runner speed i would use a ...

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Does anyone have an Unany register? I may try making one myself later.

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Found this "complexity" measure from an old post by apg.

apg wrote: August 1st, 2010, 1:22 pm Complexity of Wave CA = (ln(12)/ln(2))*(12^9) ~ 1.85 * 10^10 bits
Complexity of vNCA = (ln(29)/ln(2))*(29^5) ~ 9.96 * 10^7 bits

It seems to be:

Code: Select all

Complexity = l(n(n_states)/ln(2))*(n_states * neighborhood_size)

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Code: Select all

x = 5, y = 1, rule = B2i3aeijn/S02ai3eiy
ob3o!

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Even after all these years, I still don't know what is categorized as an "Interesting" rule by the general community. I also recently tried rulegolfing a rule with engineering potential:

x = 327, y = 129, rule = 3ik456aci8/2ac3cijnq4cet5ij68/3
325.AB$325.AB$325.AB$325.AB$325.AB$325.AB$325.AB$325 ...

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For this project, if we want something like that in CGoL, we may need an approach like Quest for Tetris , but with multiple layers of abstraction.
A potential first step is to emulate Bliptile , which is not much more complicated than 2-state OT rules. Doing so already gives us a huge advantage ...

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splitterrules wrote: September 6th, 2026, 2:08 pm I suggest that a new notation for MAP VN rules be created. At the moment, the notation consists of six unreadable characters, but due to the size of the rulespace it can be readable while being [sic] small.

See User:Apple_Bottom/Incubator/Swedish_notation.

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amling wrote: September 6th, 2026, 12:37 pm I had never even heard of this "zram" before. I don't know enough about qfind's memory representation to extract much meaning from that, although it's interesting to hear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zram

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Is zram effective against LLSSS? It works pretty well with qfind, in my experience.

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For every finite Game of Life pattern with n live cells, the next generation contains at most 3n−6 live cells.

I don't have a mathematical proof for this; I just know that a straight line with n cells (n > 2) has a population of 3n-6 in the next generation, and that looks pretty optimal. Has work ...

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J5L wrote: September 5th, 2026, 10:48 pm Wrong RLE. Please fix it.

Done.

NNlk05

p30 gun found in D8_1!
Soup:
x = 31, y = 31, rule = B3-ekqr4jz5cy6n/S2-in3-cekq4aw5-ce
obbobobooobbbbobobbbbooobobobbo$
booobobbobbbbbbbbbbbbbobbobooob$
boboboobobbbooooooobbboboobobob$
ooobobobobbooobbbooobbobobobooo$
bbbobbooobbbbbobobbbbbooobbobbb$
ooobboobboobobbobboboobboobbooo ...

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How do I de/encode mutistate RLE? I need to decode LifeHistory for one of my programs.

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