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Hmm. This is a train station, yes? What % of people transiting the station see that pattern and think, 'Oh, that's a cellular automata.'. Clearly more than zero
by 11thEarlOfMar 9y ago
Hmm. This is a train station, yes? What % of people transiting the station see that pattern and think, 'Oh, that's a cellular automata.'. Clearly more than zero, and perhaps it's not considered obscure by HN readers, but likely a very, very small % of passengers will recognize what it is. Wolfram himself seemed to be surprised.
- Retra 9y agoI guess I just got the sense from your post that it would take a 1-in-6-billion person to recognize the pattern rather than something more realistic like 1-in-ten-thousand.