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qqd wrote: June 25th, 2026, 10:34 am Life Worker Withdrawal Syndrome can be powerful:

synperiplanar wrote: June 10th, 2026, 10:45 am ...
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.

Resu wrote: October 2nd, 2025, 1:50 am Aren't all spaceships moving spaceships?

Aleph wrote: May 12th, 2021, 9:11 am 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.

In "Theoretical computer science", Wikipedia wrote:The Zuse-Fredkin thesis, dating back to the 1960s, states that the entire universe is a huge cellular automaton which continuously updates its rules.

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KittyTac wrote: September 2nd, 2018, 11:38 pm It's weird when you're 16 and all of the other forumites are either much younger than you or much older than you.

Gustone wrote: August 30th, 2026, 11:32 am

hash0 wrote: August 30th, 2026, 10:59 am 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.

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.

Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue wrote:

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

Richard Guy wrote:December 31st, 1969, 8:00 pmCome over here, there's a piece that's walking!