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BokaBB wrote:777
I CAN APGSEARCH NOW!

Sure, I was a bad person, but I have changed myself.
I'd love to befriend anybody who's interested.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

Citation needed wrote: February 11th, 2025, 8:47 am

BokaBB wrote:777
I CAN APGSEARCH NOW!

Sure, I was a bad person, but I have changed myself.
I'd love to befriend anybody who's interested.
Have a good day!

BokaBB

yours truly, in a lifewiki edit note, wrote:don't see how this is a babbling brook, clearly does not meet the definition (last time i checked a string of cells cannot have four endpoints)

dvgrn wrote: February 15th, 2025, 6:11 pm Come on, y'all -- if you find yourself getting into arguments in a Sandbox game thread, could you please simply stop contributing to that thread?

If everybody follows that rule, then grumpy moderators won't have to go around locking unpleasant-looking threads in response to post reports.

someone on discord wrote: life has been so extensively studied already that its less about finding new stuff and more about finding the cool stuff we already know but randomly

dvgrn wrote: February 15th, 2025, 6:11 pm A grumpy moderator has been forced to pay attention to this thread.

Time to lock this thread.

If a word-chains variant thread of any kind pops up to replace this one, I'll cheerfully tempban whoever starts it.

D. Dennett, 'Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking' wrote: There is a time and a place in philosophy for rigorous arguments, with all the premises numbered and the inference rules named, but these do not often need to be paraded in public. We ask our graduate students to prove they can do it in their dissertations, and some never outgrow the habit, unfortunately. And to be fair, the opposite sin of high-flown Continental rhetoric, larded with literary ornament and intimations of profundity, does philosophy no favors either. If I had to choose, I’d take the hard-bitten analytic logic-chopper over the deep purple sage every time. At least you can usually figure out what the logic-chopper is talking about and what would count as being wrong.

tommyaweosme wrote: February 20th, 2025, 9:35 pm BIG DISCOVER!!!!!

A PRIMES SQUARE MINUS TWO IS A PRIME!!!!!!!! (tommyaweosmes conjecture)

TRY TO DISPROVE IT!!!!!!!

tommyaweosme wrote: February 20th, 2025, 9:51 pm oh.

maybe 11 is the only exception?(tommyaweosmes conjecture v2)

17^2)-2)/41=7

maybe if the digits add to an even number then it doesnt count?(tommyaweosmes conjecture v3)

23 also doesnt follow this rule

augh i give up

R2INT wrote: February 22nd, 2025, 10:45 pm [...] Note that I am using AI to help me here.

DivusIulius wrote: May 3rd, 2013, 5:19 pm

MikeP wrote:Sourceforge project page for my searcher: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bellman/

This stage of the search selects interesting partial results using a classifier based on a neural network of approximately 10^11 nodes which was generated using a genetic algorithm over a timespan of several hundred million years.

Hmm... I'm starting to think that because of my humble 1 GB, Intel Core 2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz, I can consider myself one of the 99%... :|

dvgrn wrote: February 15th, 2025, 6:11 pm Come on, y'all -- if you find yourself getting into arguments in a Sandbox game thread, could you please simply stop contributing to that thread?

If everybody follows that rule, then grumpy moderators won't have to go around locking unpleasant-looking threads in response to post reports.

dvgrn wrote: February 15th, 2025, 6:11 pm A grumpy moderator has been forced to pay attention to this thread.

Time to lock this thread.

If a word-chains variant thread of any kind pops up to replace this one, I'll cheerfully tempban whoever starts it.

dvgrn wrote: February 22nd, 2025, 3:56 am They're noisy, ugly, escalatory, and irrelevant.

People who can not reliably play nicely in the Sandbox...

d/dx wrote: February 8th, 2025, 2:09 am Created topic: Okay no Golly is just haunted at this point

Should I get an exorcism???

islptng wrote: March 5th, 2025, 7:44 am Created topic: This site is haunted!?

Sokwe on Discord wrote:I know I can come off as the "overly strict, no fun guy" sometimes. I understand that much of this is just joking and venting somewhat justified frustrations. I'm really just trying to balance the needs of the various users of this community. What can seem like a harmless joke to some may be taken badly by others. Similarly, what confocaloid might see as a harmless reminder of the rules may be viewed as extremely irritating badgering.

get_Snacked wrote: January 2nd, 2025, 8:56 pm [...] i have more discoveries, but i'll post them when i come back from eating food *nom nom nom* [...]
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[...] lastly, if confocaloid sees this, can you do an agar search for b2ein3cijkr4jy6is23-ky4citwyz?

H. H. P. M. P. Cole wrote: March 19th, 2025, 8:38 pm Do not overwork yourself. If you do so you will fail to see the world beyond your "line": whether it is your profession, your career, your studies, or something else.

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x = 56, y = 28, rule = R3,C2,S2,B3,N+
4obo3bo36bo3bob4o$9bo36bo$2bo4bobo36bobo4bo$9bo36bo$o54bo$9bo36bo$o54b
o$obo4bo40bo4bobo$o54bo$o3bob4o36b4obo3bo4$9bo2b3o3$bo52bo$3b3o5bo32b
o5b3o2$5bo4bo34bo4bo$10bo34bo$8bobo34bobo$bobo48bobo$bo52bo$bo4bo42bo
4bo2$o5b3o38b3o5bo$10bo34bo!

Instead, turn your life in an unexpected direction. Who knows what that will give you?

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x = 26, y = 8, rule = R3,C2,S2,B3,N+
o2b3o4$22bo$25bo$22bo$25bo!

User:Tommyaweosme wrote: a pattern is defined as having free speech it is not a period 5 oscillator, not 34 cells, not having a bounding box of 12x10, not having a heat of 13.2, not having a volatility of 0.58, not having a kinetic symmetry of n, or not able to serve as a weak sparker.

#C https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Montana
x = 12, y = 10, rule = B3/S23
9b2o$8bo2bo$bo7bobo$o3bob2ob2o$bobobob2o$3bo2bo2b2o$6bobo2bo$4bobobob
o$3bobo3bo$3b2o!

confocaloid wrote: March 23rd, 2025, 2:35 am A remarkably beautiful example of a totally-unmotivated definition:

User:Tommyaweosme wrote: a pattern is defined as having free speech it is not a period 5 oscillator, not 34 cells, not having a bounding box of 12x10, not having a heat of 13.2, not having a volatility of 0.58, not having a kinetic symmetry of n, or not able to serve as a weak sparker.

-snip-
Nothing in the definition quoted above explains why on earth anyone would be interested in defining a concept in this way.
-snip-

User:Tommyaweosme wrote: an oscillator is defined as having free speech if it does not have a constant still life in it.
ORIGIN
the origin of this term was made so you can say "montana doesnt have free speech" and you would be undeniably right, but then it turned into a better-defined term.

Sober ABC wrote: March 18th, 2025, 9:17 am Simpkin Rifle

d/dx wrote: ι - Well I mean I know just the person but (stares right at non-existent camera) they aren't canon.
ρ - Wait what? How can something be not canon?
β - Rho. You. Are. Such. An. Idiot. We're. Living. In. An. Imaginary. Universe.

confocaloid wrote: April 11th, 2025, 9:09 pm
Thou shalt not cause Paradoxes by changing transitions in specific Spacetime points.
Thou shalt rulegolf only by changing the Rules and therefore causing consequences across the entire Spacetime continuum.

confocaloid wrote: April 10th, 2025, 8:30 pm [...] It is impossible to control specific transitions in chosen "spacetime points", without consequences everywhere else whenever an equivalent neighbourhood configuration appears. Instead, it is a choice of specific rules, and after that, the chosen rules and the initial configuration taken together completely determine all transitions that will happen in the universe. [...]

confocaloid wrote: April 11th, 2025, 9:09 pm

Citation needed wrote: April 11th, 2025, 10:30 am

get_Snacked wrote: April 11th, 2025, 10:12 am for some reason these don't work anymore????
EDIT: seems like "PASTEMODE COPY" isn't working as it should.

Thou shalt not cause Paradoxes by changing transitions in specific Spacetime points.
Thou shalt rulegolf only by changing the Rules and therefore causing consequences across the entire Spacetime continuum.

Deep Thought wrote: The quote you've provided seems to humorously reference the manipulation of rules in the context of cellular automata, particularly emphasizing the idea of "rulegolf," which is the practice of altering rules to achieve specific outcomes or efficiencies in the behavior of the automaton. [...]
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2. **"Thou shalt rulegolf only by changing the Rules and therefore causing consequences across the entire Spacetime continuum."**:

• This part introduces the concept of "rulegolf," which generally refers to optimizing or altering the rules of the cellular automaton to achieve desired effects, usually in a more abstract or global manner rather than at specific locations. This implies that one should approach changes in a more comprehensive fashion, affecting the overarching rules rather than individual transitions.
• The phrase "causing consequences across the entire Spacetime continuum" humorously suggests that altering the rules will have widespread implications, potentially altering the behavior of the entire automaton's evolution across time and space, rather than just isolated points.

[...]

JoshM wrote: April 25th, 2025, 5:48 pm Eventually, I'm let out to take over operations of FWC (including freeing the wrongfully-contained SCPs, as they're not anomalous and are just different states, and this isn't a bug). I leave my house to live a luxurious life at work instead. Meanwhile, the other P113 guy keeps the actual prisoners in line with a sparse glider stream.

I wonder if I can start a still-life-engineering company as part of FWC, to satisfy the constantly-focused centroidal insectoids.

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x = 254, y = 366, rule = LifeSuper

forum rules wrote:4. This is an academic forum, not a chat or microblogging platform. Please spend some time doing some research to familiarize yourself with what is and isn't already known about the Game of Life before posting your discoveries. [...]

JoshM wrote: April 25th, 2025, 10:46 pm [...] Good question. Unfortunately, this is unrelated to cellular automata, and the very concept of this thread appears to be problematic, as it appears to document things forum users have said for seemingly non-academic purposes. [...]

islptng wrote: April 19th, 2025, 8:56 pm Please don't ask such dumb questions then. (Omniperiodicity is not important in circuitry rules.)

A book read by ColorfulGalaxy's former professor wrote: There are no dumb questions.

Citation needed wrote: April 26th, 2025, 6:37 pm

A book read by ColorfulGalaxy's former professor wrote: There are no dumb questions.