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Eternal Struggle

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post #61

Some people here were asking for it so I quickly vibe forked a speed control slider for farming some karma here on Hacker News: https://francisduvivier.github.io/eternal-struggle-with-spee... Code: https://github.com/francisduvivier/eternal-struggle-with-spe...

Not to alarm anyone, but when I ran this, the black ball eventually joined the dark side and the whole thing ended up black. I’m sure this doesn’t mean anything for the greater universe.

maxwell's demon peeking from the dark side

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post #68

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This happened to me in the original site. I think it happens when the white and black balls collide at the exact same spot of the border.

I think it's just a tunneling bug that happens when the point that make up the wall get messed up a enough. Almost never happens anymore in the v2[1] that I added. This one also allows you to see these points. [1] https://francisduvivier.github.io/eternal-struggle-with-spee...

Declare it as a Quantum tunneling effect :p

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post #116
post #61

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Not to alarm anyone, but when I ran this, the black ball eventually joined the dark side and the whole thing ended up black. I’m sure this doesn’t mean anything for the greater universe.

black-white here doesn't mean bad-good. they just mean opposites, different aspects of things. I think wikipedia does a pretty good job explaining it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%99%B0#Traditional_Chinese (陰) lists the following definitions:

1. cloudy; overcast; gloomy

2. hidden; secret

3. negative [of electrical charge]

4. the Moon

5. shade; shadow

6. north of a mountain or south of a river

7. back side

8. of the nether world; of ghosts

9. (philosophy) "female" principle; yin in yin-yang

10. in intaglio

11. treacherous; deceitful; cheating

12. (dialectal) to deceive; to trick; to trap

13. (Chinese phonetics, of a syllable) open; not having a consonant coda

14. (Cantonese) bangs; fringe

15. genitalia (of humans)

16. a surname

The one (American) person I know who has 陰 as a surname reports that Chinese people are often shocked at her surname upon meeting her. I think it might be a bit like having the surname Death in English (https://www.ancestry.com/last-name-meaning/death?geo-lang=en...).

That is to say, black kind of does mean "bad" here, in the popular conception anyway. Taoism and Buddhism promote a worldview that sees birth and death, creation and destruction, as neither good nor bad, simply inseparable parts of a larger whole. But most everyday people try to avoid darkness, death, destruction, cloudiness, gloominess, shadows, ghosts, treachery, traps, and so on, most of the time. It's more that Taoism teaches that this attempt is foolish.

Not all the senses are unpopular; plenty of people like human genitalia, the Moon, and intaglio, and the shady side of a river can be nicer when it's hot out.

Re: Eternal Struggle

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so simple yet so deep! anyone willing to provide a math-proof like argument on why the shape seem to stick to the YY curve indefinitely as the "eternal" name suggests? Should it always be this way or is there at least one bad initial bouncing configuration for which chaos can take place and we loose the YY curve? Does not seem that obvious to me.

Off the top of my head, there is no mechanism for tension, so it would basically approach a random curve with equal white and black areas over time, but in addition there is the point reassignment function which acts as a kind of low pass filter so you get something that looks like a sinusoid?

Re: Eternal Struggle

#137
Raava and Vaatu made into a game of dual-solitary pong

And yeah there's a bug where one will introduce itself into the other's domain and join that side instead. Very life-like :)

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post #51

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It's amazing how stable it is. It's been running in a background tab for a hour now, and it still has the yin/yang look.

Yeah, definitely run it in the foreground. Mine became completely black in about 3 hours.

Me too. Does black always win? If so, why?

Re: Eternal Struggle

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post #2

I’m really keen to see what this looks like after significant time but I’m not going to leave it open on my phone for ages just to find out haha. Clever idea!

Here is one sample taken after 5 minutes. https://d6f9e5179057.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Screenshot%2...

Thank you for this!
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