Famous Quotes

[tommyaweosme]

Life Worker Withdrawal Syndrome can be powerful:

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if you're into CA, you WILL come back to conwaylife.com eventually, whether you want to or not. i came back around a year after i had an "argument" because i found real life so boring without any fake Life to play.

i seem not to suffer with it, i can spend days or even weeks at a time without CA even crossing my mind. maybe there could be a few other factors contributing to that fact, but in general it's best not to assume something is true for every case.

[NNlk05]

This gem

Aren't all spaceships moving spaceships?

[NNlk05]

So funny:

Hm.

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RLE

EDIT by dvgrn: "Hm" apparently means "p60 blinker puffer, quite a bit smaller than ihatecordership's version". I wish I spoke that language, it seems impressively compact and expressive.

[I6_I6]

The Zuse-Fredkin thesis, dating back to the 1960s, states that the entire universe is a huge cellular automaton which continuously updates its rules.

We ARE CA.

[NNlk05]

F[REDACTED] SNOWFAKES

[NNlk05]

This is real

It's weird when you're 16 and all of the other forumites are either much younger than you or much older than you.

[qqd]

I'm not sure if it is an arbitrary ruleset.

OP is using Conway's Game of Life - or more specifically, the B3/S23 ruleset

B3/S23 is an arbitary ruleset.

[LuveelVoom]

From Kazyan in Feb. 2016:

If you united a dragon/caterpillar, you could not tell that from looking at it, because you'd have to zoom out so far to get the 'caterpillar' part that the 'dragon' part would be invisible. The tagalongs you mention are diagonal instead of orthogonal, look nothing like each other, and are not 'massive' compared to anything remotely on the scale of a caterpillar. You're just not going to synthesize a caterpillar component in 386 gliders; there's more than 386 gliders in the caterpillar's helix-builders.

[TheWayOfTheCon]

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#CSYNTH xq4_153 (glider) costs 1 gliders (true).