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>"Can you wind the clock backwards at all?" >"Ah, no. Ask me again on Monday." Really? I'm just a layman but if it's a simulation, like game of life, then log
by INTPenis 13y ago
>"Can you wind the clock backwards at all?"
>"Ah, no. Ask me again on Monday."
Really? I'm just a layman but if it's a simulation, like game of life, then logic tells me that they should also be able to rewind the simulation by backstepping. Either that, or she just created magic.
- GregorStocks 13y agoI read that to mean that she hadn't implemented that feature yet.
- scrumper 13y agoIt's worth pointing out as an aside that you actually can't rewind the (Conway) game of life: the current state does not contain enough information to recreate the previous state. The reason is that many states can arise as a result of multiple possible precursor states. Diane's simulation is perhaps similar: a gigantically complex system of cellular automata.
- rtkwe 13y agoGame of Life isn't reversible. Take any oscillator, say a blinker http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Blinker http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Blinker , trying to reverse that you don't know if it was the opposite state the step before or some other pattern that became a blinker.