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True, but if that is found to be how it works then an automated AI rewrite of closed-source code is just as unbound by the original license. Which is a much bigger win for the open…

The author wrote a blog post a year later titled '"Lena" isn't about uploading' https://qntm.org/uploading The comments on this post discussing the upload technology are missing th…

Let's see if I understood this right. For the Betweenness Amazing Dragons rule: * Compute the "betweenness" of each living cell, which is 1 divided by its degree. Cells which are n…

Could you try explaining it in a comment? Not the general principle, but just the rules for one particular automaton. Whichever one is your favourite. Or Amazing Dragons, if you do…

The Game of Life implementation in this post is based on a torus. Watch the gliders when they go off the edge of the screen: they return from the other side!

So what actually is it? None of the rules in the videos look particularly striking compared to other Life-like cellular automata and 2d cellular automata in general. As you say, th…

It's back up now!

If they can, certainly. Assuming the developer still exists, and they still have the source code, some idea of the build environment, and they want their game to still be accessibl…

Quite possibly, yes - if you can find the page that gives "your" account information, the language often matches the location. I should really stop poking around, but this is a fas…

The video doesn't exactly make it look like a master of subtlety. They only show it on really obvious, simple emotions. Nothing too complex. Still creepy. Who would ever need this?…

Me neither. Are they new?

The curve editor works very nicely. Did you write it yourself? I'm working on something similar, and it's really interesting to see all the things you did differently.

The punishment, from the sound of it.

In the game? No. The shortest distance between two points is still a straight line.

What the fourth dimension is depends entirely on what order you put the dimensions in :)

In the 2D/3D world, the rubble just fell off the wall and landed next to it. It's only strange because it fell in the direction that the player character doesn't normally perceive.…

"Fresh Apples here! Only the best apples for 2 dollars!" "I would like 1000 apples, please." "Sir, I only have 600 apples in the shop. I can give you those now, and I'll ask the gu…

And it was always blessed greased +2 grey dragon scale mail.

The white lines are supposed to be the paths, not the walls.

>I wonder if this works backwards - given a tree could you construct a maze? efficiently? There are trees for which no rectangular maze exists - for example, any tree with a vertex…

Almost certainly. Supply, demand, and so on.

Zero.