1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

Post by jancurn » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 8:38 AM UTC

falcor84 wrote: post #22

flufluflufluffy wrote: post #17

Me: oh cool, this is interesting, I don’t quite understand what exactly that means, let me read the thread to learn more… The thread: > Replacing ECCA1 by version with step after the direction change could save something like 1% of the ecca1 bits size. Compiling agnosticized program instead of fixed lane program by ecca1 could save something like 1% as well (just guesses). Build of smaller ECCA1 would shorten binary…

Their free book "Conway’s Game of Life: Mathematics and Construction" is a great starting point - https://conwaylife.com/book/conway_life_book.pdf

Post by golem14 » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 9:01 AM UTC

__del__ wrote: post #101

tombert wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it appeals to the same itch that languages like Brainfuck scratch. There's something exceedingly interesting about how you can model complexity with something extremely simple. Brainfuck is fun because it forces you to think extremely low level, because ultimately it is basically just a raw implementation of a Turing machine. I wouldn't want to write a big program in it, but it is fun to think about how you m…

for those who think brainfuck is too pedestrian, have a browse through the esolang wiki: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Language_list

Post by rizky05 » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 9:55 AM UTC

avhon1 wrote: post #96

nilslindemann wrote: post #67

I would like to see a video.

If each step was 1 frame, and the video played at 240 frames per second, the video would last about 17.5 years

Post by _factor » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 9:58 AM UTC

eru wrote: post #135

jacquesm wrote: post #125

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That's true, but we already know that a bunch of stuff about the universe is quantized. The question is whether or not that holds true for everything or rather not. And all 'fully continuous models of computation' in the end rely on a representation that is a quantized approximation of an ideal. In other words: any practical implementation of such a model that does not end up being a noise generator or an oscillator…

If your underlying system is linear and stable, you can pick any arbitrary precision you are interested in and compute all future behaviour to that precision on a digital computer. Btw, quantum mechanics is both linear and stable--and even deterministic. Admittedly it's a bit of a mystery how the observed chaotic nature of eg Newtonian billard balls emerges from quantum mechanics. 'Stable' in this case means that sma…

Post by Cthulhu_ » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 10:02 AM UTC

MasterScrat wrote: post #115

> The start is slow as well, skipping to generation 42168M is recomended. I picture entities playing with our universe, "it starts slow but check it out at the 13.8B mark"