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by gwern 6y ago
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My guess is that it almost certainly is, in even a very reduced knitting model, by reduction to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_tile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_tile or a similar CA or rewrite system. (Actually proving this, of course, is the tricky part.)