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Posted: **July 12th, 2021, 2:32 am**

/* Generalized Arc4Random */
const int RAND_MAX = 256;
int key[RAND_MAX];
int key_i = 0, key_j = 0;

void srand (const char *seed, int len)
{
	int i, j, t;
	for (i = 0; i < RAND_MAX; i++)
		key[i] = i;
	for (i = j = 0; i < RAND_MAX; i++)
	{
		t = key[i];
		j = (j + t + seed[i % len]) % RAND_MAX;
		key[i] = key[j];
		key[j] = t;
	}
	key_i = 0;
	key_j = 0;
}

int rand ()
{
	int t;
	key_i = (key_i + 1) % RAND_MAX;
 	t = key[key_i];
	key_j = (key_j + t) % RAND_MAX;
	key[key_i] = key[key_j];
	key[key_j] = t;
	return key[(key[key_i] + key[key_j]) % RAND_MAX];
}

Posted: **July 14th, 2021, 3:45 am**

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x = 16, y = 16, rule = B2-a5ac6e78/S13akry4ikqwy5ace6ei78
bobobooobbobobbb$
obbbobbbboobbboo$
booobbbbobbbbooo$
oobobobbbobbooob$
oooooboobobboooo$
bobbobbooobboboo$
bbbbobbbboobbobo$
bobbbboooboooobb$
boooobbooobbbbbb$
bbboobboooobbooo$
bbooooobooobbooo$
bbbbboboooobobbb$
booobbobbbbbobbo$
bbbobobobooobobo$
obboboooobbooobo$
oooboobbbboboboo!

Posted: **July 16th, 2021, 3:57 am**

Logic circuits:

Single input gates:
- Logic buffer
- NOT gate
Double input gates:
- AND gate
- ANDNOT gate
- OR gate
- XOR gate
Triple input gates:
- Multiplexer
Memory cells:

Posted: **July 17th, 2021, 9:28 am**

breaker's glider gun wrote: July 17th, 2021, 8:50 am
sliversmith wrote: July 7th, 2021, 1:34 pm Here is a logarithmic growth pattern, which goes through a cycle every 3000 generations
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that's a bit silly...

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Posted: **July 17th, 2021, 1:21 pm**

Freywa wrote: July 16th, 2021, 12:35 am Since Wainwright called the similar SKOP75 6 bits I'm going to call the above p90 Silverstream after the MLPFIM character; the glider moves back and forth like a fish (or in Silverstream's case a seapony) streaming through water and the hippogriff is part of the Student Six (90 = 15 × 6).

Why do you have to call it that after a character in mlp???
I'm getting weird flashbacks.

Posted: **July 19th, 2021, 10:18 am**

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Posted: **July 21st, 2021, 1:16 am**

Check generation 18 ~ 21

Username soup

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x = 93, y = 8, rule = B3/S23
4b2o5b2o5b2o5b2ob2o2b2o5b2ob2o2b2ob2o2b2o5b2o19b2ob2o2b2o$4b2o5b2o5b2o
5b2ob2o2b2o5b2ob2o2b2ob2o2b2o5b2o19b2ob2o2b2o2$11b2o8b2o19b2o5b2o5b2o
2b2ob2o19b2o$11b2o8b2o19b2o5b2o5b2o2b2ob2o19b2o2$2o9b2o12b2ob2o9b2o19b
2o15b2o2b2ob2o2b2ob2o$2o9b2o12b2ob2o9b2o19b2o15b2o2b2ob2o2b2ob2o!

EDIT by dvgrn: This didn't seem like an "unusual catalysis" -- there's a fairly normal block catalysis in generations 18-21, but why make everybody sort through a big messy pattern to find that? Just take the time to post the specific part of the pattern that is the actual catalysis, and maybe explain why it's unusual.

This post was annoying enough that somebody reported it, so I moved it (and added this note).

The pattern does not include an unusual catalysis at the indicated time, only two standard block catalyses, where the block that performs the second catalysis happens to have been created in the first catalysis (and it is not unusual for a block to be created naturally then perform a natural catalysis).

Posted: **July 22nd, 2021, 8:57 am**

@Donald Fe Trump: The Olympiad is starting tomorrow. Don't forget to go there to watch it.

Posted: **July 23rd, 2021, 2:38 am**

Citation needed wrote: July 22nd, 2021, 8:57 am @Donald Fe Trump: The Olympiad is starting tomorrow. Don't forget to go there to watch it.

It's starting tonight.

Posted: **July 23rd, 2021, 7:08 am**

dvgrn wrote: July 21st, 2021, 1:16 am
EDIT by dvgrn: This didn't seem like an "unusual catalysis" -- there's a fairly normal block catalysis in generations 18-21, but why make everybody sort through a big messy pattern to find that? Just take the time to post the specific part of the pattern that is the actual catalysis, and maybe explain why it's unusual.

This post was annoying enough that somebody reported it, so I moved it (and added this note).

At generation 8 ~ 13, the rabbits catalyzes the glider and turned it into a block.

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x = 14, y = 14, rule = B3/S23
5bo5bo$7bo3bo$7bo2bobo$6bobo$13bo4$3o$2bo$bo$9b3o$9bo$10bo!

The two fishhooks caught the domino in. Can the reaction be made into a memory cell?

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x = 12, y = 19, rule = B3/S23
2o6b2o$o8bo$b3o2b3o$3bo2bo3$2bo4bo$bo6bo$o8bo$o8bo$o8bo$bo6bo$2bo4bo4$
9b3o$9bo$10bo!

EDIT: Without the rabbits, the two gliders would evolve into a block.

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x = 14, y = 14, rule = TripleB3S23
5.C5.C$7.C3.C$7.C2.C.C$6.C.C$4.2A7.C$4.2A3$3F$2.F$.F$9.3F$9.F$10.F!

EDIT by dvgrn: This post also got reported and moved.

... off-topic because it features sparkings, not catalyses, and neither sparking a glider to make a block nor using a domino spark to add a bridge in the demonstrated manner are unusual.

Please try to make sure to understand topics a little better before adding posts to them.

Posted: **August 1st, 2021, 2:35 am**

ColorfulGabrielsp138 wrote: July 23rd, 2021, 7:08 am

I know you're a human being. Since this behavior continues, I doubt that you are just ColorfulGalaxy.

@ColorfulGalaxy: Please bear in mind that xp0_2fo is named "Procrestinator".

Posted: **August 2nd, 2021, 12:49 am**

wwei47 wrote: August 2nd, 2021, 12:01 am
MathAndCode wrote: August 1st, 2021, 11:55 pm After discoveries such as electricity, radio, and integrated circuits, how does only a new smallest odd-period gun imply that God is dead?
I agree. Suppose god does not exist. Then god is not dead, because they would need to exist to die.
Suppose god does exist. God is still not necessarily dead-the creator of the universe could easily add something to prevent us from killing them.

My point was that according to Christian (I don't know of any other religions that discourage human ingenuity.) belief, God did not want Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge (Genesis 2:17). Because Abrahamic religions believe that God is omnipotent, if God were alive, God would have prevented humans from eating from the Tree of Knowledge, so any example of human ingenuity is evidence that God must be dead. My point is that more significant and monumental discoveries would constitute more convincing evidence that God is dead.
Of course, this is stupid (because God talks later in the Bible), but I can't think of any other reason why people making discoveries could be interpreted as signifying that God is dead.

Posted: **August 2nd, 2021, 1:35 am**

MathAndCode wrote: August 2nd, 2021, 12:49 amBecause Abrahamic religions believe that God is omnipotent, if God were alive, God would have prevented humans from eating from the Tree of Knowledge,

How does the first part imply the second?

Posted: **August 2nd, 2021, 2:16 pm**

wwei47 wrote: August 2nd, 2021, 1:35 amHow does the first part imply the second?

MathAndCode wrote: August 2nd, 2021, 12:49 amGod did not want Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge (Genesis 2:17).

Genesis certainly portrays God as powerful enough to prevent people from eating from the Tree of Life (Genesis 3:22–24).

Posted: **August 3rd, 2021, 1:40 am**

GUYTU6J wrote: Removed following text from ColorfulGalaxy's LifeWiki article
* ... is equal to 9999[[#9|9]] divided by ColorfulGalaxy's forum user ID.

Did you mean that it's not true?

Posted: **August 3rd, 2021, 1:54 am**

Citation needed wrote: August 3rd, 2021, 1:40 am
GUYTU6J wrote: Removed following text from ColorfulGalaxy's LifeWiki article
* ... is equal to 9999[[#9|9]] divided by ColorfulGalaxy's forum user ID.
Did you mean that it's not true?

Why is that of your interest and why is you instead of ColorfulGalaxy himself who is asking the question?

Posted: **August 4th, 2021, 12:58 am**

GUYTU6J wrote: August 3rd, 2021, 1:54 am
Citation needed wrote: August 3rd, 2021, 1:40 am
GUYTU6J wrote: Removed following text from ColorfulGalaxy's LifeWiki article
* ... is equal to 9999[[#9|9]] divided by ColorfulGalaxy's forum user ID.
Did you mean that it's not true?
Why is that of your interest and why is you instead of ColorfulGalaxy himself who is asking the question?

I suspect ColorfulGalaxy didn't dare ask this.

And why did you remove his text from the bookend article?
Who's Detrick?

Posted: **August 5th, 2021, 3:01 am**

Wow, Tanner's p46 is from 2017? I could swear it was much younger.

Posted: **August 5th, 2021, 7:41 am**

GUYTU6J wrote: August 3rd, 2021, 1:54 am
Citation needed wrote: August 3rd, 2021, 1:40 am
GUYTU6J wrote: Removed following text from ColorfulGalaxy's LifeWiki article
* ... is equal to 9999[[#9|9]] divided by ColorfulGalaxy's forum user ID.
Did you mean that it's not true?
Why is that of your interest and why is you instead of ColorfulGalaxy himself who is asking the question?

I suspect that you removed that line probably because you thought that ColorfulGalaxy and ColorfulGabrielsp138 are the same person.

Posted: **August 5th, 2021, 11:42 am**

testing testing

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Posted: **August 6th, 2021, 2:30 am**

Fun fact: Now there are 666 threads in the General Discussion forum.

Posted: **August 6th, 2021, 3:50 pm**

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Posted: **August 7th, 2021, 8:04 pm**

MathAndCode wrote: November 7th, 2020, 3:35 pm Here's a partial I→Q, preceded by a ∏→I.

[offtopic]

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x = 28, y = 9, rule = B3/S23
8b2o$4b3o2bo$4bobo2b2o14b2o$4bobo3b2o2b5o7bo$21b3o2bo$o13b5o7bo$obo22b
3o$3o$bo!

[/offtopic]

Posted: **August 8th, 2021, 1:16 am**

ColorfulGabrielsp138 wrote: July 29th, 2021, 9:14 am It has been proven that there are no finite patterns that appear to be Gardens of Eden in every outer-totalistic rule, for in rule B/S012345678 there is no Garden of Eden.

It has also been proven that there are no finite patterns that are not Gardens of Eden in any outer-totalistic rule, for in rule B012345678/S012345678 all finite patterns are Gardens of Eden.

By the way, here is a Garden of Eden in OCA:
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x = 0, y = 0, rule = WireWorld
o!
EDIT: Fixed error

ColorfulGabrielsp138 wrote: August 6th, 2021, 6:14 am Symmetric pure glider generator from digit soup:
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x = 3, y = 7, rule = B3/S23
bo$b2o$b2o$obo$2o$2o$bo!

ColorfulGalaxy had stolen both of the discoveries from ColorfulGabrielsp138, maybe.

Posted: **August 8th, 2021, 1:24 am**

pcallahan wrote: May 6th, 2016, 3:28 pm Another problem in my attempt to keep the shapes as simple as possible. If a white tooth meets a blue tile as I have here, then it could also be a blue t**th meeting a white tile.
Screen Shot 2016-05-06 at 12.20.40 PM.png
This is a problem if the blue tile really only has one blue tile as a neighbor but can be placed as if it had two by touching the face of a white tile.

This is fixable by making sure the contour of a blue-white coupling is different from a blue-blue coupling, since gray tiles enforce the contours. Originally I had something like this and mistakenly believed I could simplify it away. So it's a work in progress, but I believe the basic idea is correct.

Update: I fixed the original image by making the blue teeth wider. This address the specific issue. Let me know if anyone sees other potential for tilings that aren't still lifes (explicitly ruling out the tiling by all gray squares).

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