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Thank you, mind blown! Downloaded "Golly" (http://golly.sourceforge.net/ http://golly.sourceforge.net/) and ran HashLife/metapixel. Life simulating life, and
by dgreensp 14y ago
Thank you, mind blown! Downloaded "Golly" (http://golly.sourceforge.net/ http://golly.sourceforge.net/) and ran HashLife/metapixel.
Life simulating life, and it runs in real time.
- tisme 14y agoMind blown pretty much describes what I felt like when I first came upon it. After spending a good bit of time optimizing 'life' having your ass handed to you by a large number of orders of magnitude courtesy of mr. Norvig is a good lesson in humility.
- tripzilch 14y agohashlife is a pretty brilliant algorithm. basically it sort of memoizes patterns at different scales. highly recommended to check out the details of how it works.