Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page • Hacker News Board

Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

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Post by madrona » Sun, Oct 14, 2012, 4:07 AM UTC

jschuur wrote: post #79

eranation wrote: post #36

Predicting the next HN front page article in the near future: "Show HN: weekend project - open source Google's conway's game of life"

"Do you still want to be writing Game of Life easter aggs when you're 50?"

And the rebuttal, "Yes, I want to be writing Game of Life easter eggs"

Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

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Post by carlob » Sun, Oct 14, 2012, 6:45 PM UTC

saraid216 wrote: post #60

carlob wrote: post #21

First the knowledge graph, now the game of life animation. It really seems Google is trying to be more and more like Wolfram|Alpha! :)

I just checked Wolfram Alpha and couldn't find the Javascript animation of game of life. Could you link me to how you did it?

Every time you do a query on W|A you see a brief animation of the game of life while the result is loading. I was referring to that.

(and my comment was meant tongue in cheek)

Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

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Post by kamaal » Fri, Oct 19, 2012, 6:24 AM UTC

eranation wrote: post #33

jonmwords wrote: post #4

Here's the interview I published with the creator! http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how-a-google-engineer-b...

> So I made a demo and started showing my co-workers what it was and realized that some of them had never seen the Game of Life before. So let me get this straight, there are Google software engineers, that passed all the 3 month interview process which some considered the toughest in the world, and they never have heard of conway's game of life. this makes me feel a little better about myself now.

'Knowing' algorithms is hardly great.

Most of them who cleared it might be kind of guys who read interview questions on programming forums every day and master the art of gaming interviews.