Famous Quotes

[haaaaaands]

wait why am i suggesting a site to its own users???

[d/dx]

It'd be like TRR TRR TRRRRRRR trr trr trrrrrrr TRR TRR TRRRRRRR trr trr trrrrrrr TRR TRR TRRRRRRR trr trr trrrrrrr

[confocaloid]

[...] maybe not academically noteworthy, but kids have to be interested enuf to want to go to college...

[...] Open question: should it be possible for an alive non-kid to become a kid again one tick later? [...]

[otismo]

[...] maybe not academically noteworthy, but kids have to be interested enuf to want to go to college...

[...] Open question: should it be possible for an alive non-kid to become a kid again one tick later? [...]

as long as that alive non-kid

has not yet murdered off his inner child

of course, some children never get to have a childhood

so they were never children to begin with

so the question is

WHAT ARE THEY ?

[otismo]

orcs

ninjas ?

somebody's "little friend" ?

[otismo]

when i was growin up

i cud be anything

but i didnt go to college like my mama said

instead i stayed home and partied with all my friends

now all the math it just hurts my head

had to sell the car just to pay the rent

but everythings good, everythings good...

[confocaloid]

[...]
also, my color order makes more sense and its not like were gonna get through 83 posts in a short enough period of time that it matters

making more sense is a bad thing.
[...]

[...]
It might be more sensible to use a script to put it all together, but who says you have to be sensible? It's not 86,243 semi-Snarks because the base gun would take care of the first thirteen powers of two.
[...]

[rutabaga]

Also, I found this p2 (kissing-blocks) oscillator that seems to be made of 2 blocks touching diagonally.

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x = 4, y = 4, rule = B3/S23
2o$o$3bo$2b2o!

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x = 4, y = 4, rule = B3/S23
2o$2o$2b2o$2b2o!

For me, it was Cyclic.

[H. H. P. M. P. Cole]

Personally, I feel like this needs to be archived.

I have exchanged several PMs between confocaloid, dvgrn, and rowett regarding this issue, and the conclusion is that the mods' decision will be to not change the terminology (and as a result, occurences of 'transition') in the LifeWiki.

This situation is too much for me to handle on my own, dvgrn has been asking me terribly hard administrative questions, and overall this discussion has been devolving into two political 'parties' with one thinking that the other is just plain wrong without consideration of their opinions, possibly not considering that the other might be right.

I am unable to cope with this situation anymore. Others, feel free to improve the Transition (disambiguation), Condition and Transition rule articles. With this in mind, I will disengage from this argument, possibly forever.

Meet me again when I do some actual CA exploration.

(As I type this I am crying in my room, thinking about what kind of a mess I have gotten myself into. I hope that I have contributed something productive in this discussion.)

Meet me again when I do some actual CA exploration.

Completely understandable.

I think it's unfortunate that questions that could lead to an impersonal technical discussion, instead lead to something very similar to a political dispute.
Mathematics can be recreational, intuitive and fun, while still remaining clear, precise and honest.

[Haycat2009]

Me VS The world

are the main hook into this mess so make sure you do a good job

Bad apples waste your time and your energy.

Trying to upset your applecart.

That is how you know them.

A bad apple is just a bad apple.

Ignore it.

Pray for Peace...

https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?oldid=142715
https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?diff ... did=142541

I do not understand why the executive decision above is implemented (incorrectly; the title is capitalized incorrectly) by a user who is spamming the wiki with misspellings.

Will constrictor be an ok name? It is a type of snake and can be very long.

They also kill their prey by constriction, which involves the snake coiling around the prey. I think it would be fine to include that as an alternate name, but I would also keep the name "coiled snake", which I think is a bit more intuitive. Any objections?

[...] Conditions are Hensel notation configurations (4t, 2a, etc).

The string 'S4t' also can be used to specify a condition. Specifically, that is the following condition:
"the cell is currently alive and has four alive neighbours that are arranged like cells of a T-pentomino inside the 3-by-3 neighbourhood".

Note that it is impossible to refer to the same condition with just '4t'. By itself, the string '4t' refers to a different condition:
"the cell currently has four alive neighbours that are arranged like cells of a T-pentomino inside the 3-by-3 neighbourhood".

If you instead want to talk about the rules, then you can use 'S4t' to refer to the following transition rule:
"If the cell is currently alive and has four alive neighbours that are arranged like cells of a T-pentomino inside the 3-by-3 neighbourhood, then the cell survives in the next generation".
In this case, the transition that happens is "survival" (1 -> 1).

You can also use 'D4t' to refer to the following transition rule:
"If the cell is currently alive and has four alive neighbours that are arranged like cells of a T-pentomino inside the 3-by-3 neighbourhood, then the cell dies in the next generation".
In this case, the transition that happens is "death" (1 -> 0).

The same goes for other examples (B5, S2, S4w, and so on). Those strings also can refer to conditions that are different from the conditions referred to by omitting the initial letter.

edit 1: clarified a bit, without major changes.

Blinker VS Reality

I wanted to prove that p2 oscillators with a unidimensional stators exist [...]

I think the blinker already counts as an example...

I seriously forgot about the blinker?!

[confocaloid]

Me VS The world [...]

It doesn't have to be "you vs. others". It could be "people vs. the problem to be solved" instead.

[otismo]

A bad apple is just a bad apple.

Ignore it.

Pray for Peace...

[otismo]

Bad apples waste your time and your energy.

Trying to upset your applecart.

That is how you know them.

[tommyaweosme]

i just sell all the bad apples as a new breed of apples and get lots of money to put into my next big project: aweosmemart (not to be confused with awesomemart, the store that was immaturely made by a younger version of myself to dunk on a very specific few "mean" flipanim users)

[tommyaweosme]

lol look at wikipedias pathetic attempts to give me a bad reputation

CheckUser evidence confirms that the owner of this account has abusively used multiple accounts.
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its not gonna work XD just deal with it wikipedia stop acting professional.
(btw this happened when i was 8 so if any of yall think this is my fault i was stupid immature at that time, so dont go banning me around on other wikis just because i wanted to help a little on the "biggest" wiki on earth, even though i know thats a lie too)
edit: i meant the fact that it is the "biggest" is a lie, not that i didnt actually wanted to help.

[confocaloid]

Is this a forum about netiquette or about GoL?

At the moment, pretty much both.

[tommyaweosme]

well now the same thing that they were talking about happened to them XD

[tommyaweosme]

Do you have shares in a competitor to Golly or something?

btw: even though my account age is less than 5 months yall can still quote me

[Aleph]

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[tommyaweosme]

this is always how i introduce beginners to cgol:
(after explaining cellular automata and showcasing still lifes and glider)
me: this is an lwss
them: ok
me: if i extend it one, it still works
them: neat!
me: and i extend it again, it still works!
them: ok
me: what do you think will happen if i extend it again?
them: it still works
me: wrong! *starts laughing hysterically*

[b-engine]

this is always how i introduce beginners to cgol:
(after explaining cellular automata and showcasing still lifes and glider)
me: this is an lwss
them: ok
me: if i extend it one, it still works
them: neat!
me: and i extend it again, it still works!
them: ok
me: what do you think will happen if i extend it again?
them: it still works
me: wrong! *starts laughing hysterically*

Yeah, now it's really famous quote. (don't forget that tommy allows us to quote his posts here no matter what)

(Now "me" refers to b-engine)
Them: How? Why it doesn't works?
Me: *Lots of expert-like-mediocre-like explanation*
Them: How about shorten it?
Me: 3WSS becomes 2 ship ties as constellation "fleet". However it's possible to add fishhooks to turn it into a p8 oscillator.
Them: like this?

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x = 12, y = 7, rule = B3/S23
9b3o$obo6bobo$3bo5b3o$o2bo6bo$b3o6bo$8bobo$8b3o!

Me & tommy: still wrong! *laugh hyper-hyper-sterically*

[Gamer729]

a long time ago (literally back in 2016), the lord of the forums said

"This is an academic forum, not a chat or microblogging platform."
- nathaniel

but then the sandbox came and be like

"haha random posts go brrr"
- the sandbox


and so, all the fortnite 9 year olds with only the knowledge on how to bash the living hell out of their keyboard to convince somebody else that they created a pattern that was discovered 30 years ago, migrated to the sandbox to share their utter genius

and when we humans become a space-faring society, these sandbox dwellers who spend their time spamming in the random posts thread will always be remembered as the philosophers of the 21st century

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conclusion of history lesson: post your CA memes here or you might get eaten by wild shibes

when it's soup searching time

If I was English teacher this thread start would get A*

[hotdogPi]

we did it boys. 6 posts per day

6 posts per day is not a good thing unless you're making major contributions to CGOL or OCA. I have 1.20, and that's with finding oscillators and oscillator partials and discussing other things in the Patterns subforum. You spend most of your time in Sandbox (over 75% of posts), and you don't even research your OCA rules to find if they're interesting or not.

Pretending to be a bird has nothing to do with this forum.

Creating Google Docs forms about AI has nothing to do with this forum.

Caring about your post count has nothing to do with this forum.

I don't think you understand the purpose of this forum. It is not for random posting. This is an academic forum. If you are not willing to contribute in a serious manner, you should not be here.

[haaaaaands]

On this forum, your value in the community is determined by your contributions divided by your post count. That is, a lower post count is better.

that is, unless you're dvgrn (jk)

ok self insert but ehh it's true

[otismo]

On this forum, your value in the community is determined by your contributions divided by your post count. That is, a lower post count is better.

that is, unless you're dvgrn (jk)

ok self insert but ehh it's true

EVERYTHING that

dvgrn posts is valuable and on topic

probably the most helpful guy in the community...

I try to read them all...