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

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

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Post by H8crilA »

layer8 wrote: post #14
pkilgore wrote: post #13

So it starts as a line, explodes into a huge 2D complex mess, and eventually, after many generation, returns to form the same 3.7B cells long line? That's kind of amazing. I wish someone unpacked the units of abstraction/compilation that must surely exist here. Surely they aren't developing this with 1 or 0 as the abstraction level!

See here: https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2040&start... It’s also a relatively sparse line, as the number of live cells is less than a hundredth of the line’s extent: https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Unidimensional_spaceship_1

> Work started in 2016 and was completed on December 1, 2025.

Almost 10 years of development.

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

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Post by culi »

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…

That's because it's not "game of life jargon", it's "cellular automata" jargon. Which is a field of math and comes along with a bunch of math jargon from related fields.

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

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Post by munchler »

bezko wrote: post #16

“History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” – Mark Twain Looking forward to the impending AI and crypto crash and have people run GoL simulations on expensive computer systems like it's 1972 again.

Off-topic, but like a lot of quotes attributed to Twain, there’s no evidence he said that.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/

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

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Post by culi »

londons_explore wrote: post #24

This seems like a great task as a test for AI. The result is easily verify-able, yet the techniques to design such a glider are very complex and some might not have been discovered yet.

It's already being done. Has been done for decades now. Definitely wouldn't be a good use of an LLM-type model if that's what you're proposing

If you look at the placement of Journal of Cellular Automata in SciMago's Shape of Science visualization[0] you'll see that it's completely surrounded by machine learning/AI journals

[0] https://www.scimagojr.com/shapeofscience/

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

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Post by dooglius »

culi wrote: post #32
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…

That's because it's not "game of life jargon", it's "cellular automata" jargon. Which is a field of math and comes along with a bunch of math jargon from related fields.

I searched several of these terms and they are all specifically jargon of game of life enthusiasts, (i.e. search reaults are all on fansites related to game of life) not general cellular automata jargon.

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

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Post by tantalor »

layer8 wrote: post #14
pkilgore wrote: post #13

So it starts as a line, explodes into a huge 2D complex mess, and eventually, after many generation, returns to form the same 3.7B cells long line? That's kind of amazing. I wish someone unpacked the units of abstraction/compilation that must surely exist here. Surely they aren't developing this with 1 or 0 as the abstraction level!

See here: https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2040&start... It’s also a relatively sparse line, as the number of live cells is less than a hundredth of the line’s extent: https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Unidimensional_spaceship_1

How many steps is the period? How far does it travel in that period? What direction does it go? Does it clean up after itself?

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

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Post by Romario77 »

pkilgore wrote: post #13

So it starts as a line, explodes into a huge 2D complex mess, and eventually, after many generation, returns to form the same 3.7B cells long line? That's kind of amazing. I wish someone unpacked the units of abstraction/compilation that must surely exist here. Surely they aren't developing this with 1 or 0 as the abstraction level!

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

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Post by levocardia »

dkural wrote: post #27
layer8 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See here: https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2040&start... It’s also a relatively sparse line, as the number of live cells is less than a hundredth of the line’s extent: https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Unidimensional_spaceship_1

Only about 1.5% of the human genome is protein coding. The human genome is about 3 billion base pairs long.

Game of life indeed!
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