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The post (and my previous waterbear post) both talk about universal construction, it is equivalent to glider construction. There are patterns which have N generations of predecesso…

Hi, I'm the author, the preferred URL is https://biggieblog.com/building-arbitrary-life-patterns-in-1... . Does that work for you?

I would say "the educated public" is already the target audience for my blog. Game of life topics are notoriously hard to disentangle from their jargon, and I went to some effort h…

Right, as far as I can tell the term "semilator" was coined for this task, so google won't help. The middle of the RCT pattern where all of the action happens, reads its first bit …

Ooh, I appreciate the diligence! The numbers here came from manually fiddling with more granular output from Pavgran's special purpose "profiler" script. One of those steps, where …

LMAO I found outdated info on that wikipedia page, in the best way. "Some patterns require a very large number (sometimes hundreds) of glider collisions"

I think the portion that is fundamental is deeper than game of life itself. Game of life is a rule set with sufficient complexity to get this far, but it isn't the only one. Anythi…

To clean up the mistakes in your summary: 4 gliders hit each other to make a stream of gliders. This isn't a gun, because a gun costs more. instead it's a GPSE, which looks like a …

This is a really good and not at all easy to answer question. The most I can say is that folks earlier this year used some SAT solver equivalent to find notable patterns that canno…

Definitely worth trying to learn! As with most topics, it starts out seeming hard to grasp, and then you start naming things and recognizing them. What looks like jargon to an outs…

It can! A seed constellation for the initial gliders would be possible using the extra debris from the original collision. Without using that debris, there might be a problem reach…

Hi there, I'm the author (of the blog post, not of the achievement itself)! So glad this is spreading. Feel free to ask here or on the post for more clarification if stuff is too u…