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tommyaweosme wrote: June 2nd, 2024, 10:48 am wait why am i suggesting a site to its own users???

d/dx wrote: June 8th, 2024, 1:38 pm It'd be like TRR TRR TRRRRRRR trr trr trrrrrrr TRR TRR TRRRRRRR trr trr trrrrrrr TRR TRR TRRRRRRR trr trr trrrrrrr

otismo wrote: June 9th, 2024, 4:00 pm[...] maybe not academically noteworthy, but kids have to be interested enuf to want to go to college...

confocaloid wrote: June 9th, 2024, 6:28 pm[...] Open question: should it be possible for an alive non-kid to become a kid again one tick later? [...]

confocaloid wrote: June 9th, 2024, 7:08 pm

otismo wrote: June 9th, 2024, 4:00 pm[...] maybe not academically noteworthy, but kids have to be interested enuf to want to go to college...

confocaloid wrote: June 9th, 2024, 6:28 pm[...] Open question: should it be possible for an alive non-kid to become a kid again one tick later? [...]

rutabaga wrote: June 11th, 2024, 9:48 am

tommyaweosme wrote: June 10th, 2024, 6:48 pm[...]
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.
[...]

dvgrn wrote: March 3rd, 2017, 6:20 pm[...]
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.
[...]

eRroR_6o6 wrote: March 28th, 2024, 12:43 pm

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

Code: Select all

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

Code: Select all

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

H. H. P. M. P. Cole wrote: June 6th, 2024, 8:32 am 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.)

confocaloid wrote: June 6th, 2024, 8:40 am

H. H. P. M. P. Cole wrote: June 6th, 2024, 8:32 amMeet 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.

otismo wrote: May 14th, 2024, 6:11 am are the main hook into this mess so make sure you do a good job

otismo wrote: June 12th, 2024, 9:04 am Bad apples waste your time and your energy.

Trying to upset your applecart.

That is how you know them.

otismo wrote: June 12th, 2024, 8:40 am A bad apple is just a bad apple.

Ignore it.

Pray for Peace...

confocaloid wrote: December 11th, 2023, 5:48 am 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.

Sokwe wrote: March 2nd, 2024, 3:01 am

Haycat2009 wrote: March 1st, 2024, 11:27 pm 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?

confocaloid wrote: June 3rd, 2024, 1:23 am

Haycat2009 wrote: June 3rd, 2024, 1:16 am [...] 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.

qqd wrote: March 2nd, 2024, 2:28 pm

confocaloid wrote: March 2nd, 2024, 8:15 am

qqd wrote: March 2nd, 2024, 7:49 amI 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?!

Haycat2009 wrote: June 12th, 2024, 12:31 am Me VS The world [...]

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HartmutHolzwart wrote: March 5th, 2016, 8:34 amIs this a forum about netiquette or about GoL?

muzik wrote: March 5th, 2016, 8:52 amAt the moment, pretty much both.

hotdogPi wrote: June 13th, 2024, 9:01 pm Do you have shares in a competitor to Golly or something?

tommyaweosme wrote: June 14th, 2024, 8:16 pm 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*

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

SquishyBoi wrote: September 7th, 2020, 8:03 pm 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

tommyaweosme wrote: June 25th, 2024, 5:08 pm we did it boys. 6 posts per day

haaaaaands wrote: June 23rd, 2024, 1:37 pm

hotdogPi wrote: June 21st, 2024, 7:52 am 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)

haaaaaands wrote: June 26th, 2024, 7:59 am

haaaaaands wrote: June 23rd, 2024, 1:37 pm

hotdogPi wrote: June 21st, 2024, 7:52 am 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