biggiemac42

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by biggiemac42 2y ago
The post (and my previous waterbear post) both talk about universal construction, it is equivalent to glider construction. There are patterns which have N generations of predecessor but not N+1, which are also non-constructible.
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by biggiemac42 2y ago
Hi, I'm the author, the preferred URL is https://biggieblog.com/building-arbitrary-life-patterns-in-1... . Does that work for you?
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by biggiemac42 4y ago
I would say "the educated public" is already the target audience for my blog. Game of life topics are notoriously hard to disentangle from their jargon, and I went to some effort here but needed to balance that against the goal t
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by biggiemac42 4y ago
Right, as far as I can tell the term "semilator" was coined for this task, so google won't help. The middle of the RCT pattern where all of the action happens, reads its first bit 2^N generations B.S (before singularity, or b
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by biggiemac42 4y ago
Ooh, I appreciate the diligence! The numbers here came from manually fiddling with more granular output from Pavgran's special purpose "profiler" script. One of those steps, where the DBCA assumes control of the bit stream,
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by biggiemac42 4y ago
LMAO I found outdated info on that wikipedia page, in the best way. "Some patterns require a very large number (sometimes hundreds) of glider collisions"
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by biggiemac42 4y ago
I think the portion that is fundamental is deeper than game of life itself. Game of life is a rule set with sufficient complexity to get this far, but it isn't the only one. Anything with this class of behavior will support systems i
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by biggiemac42 4y ago
To clean up the mistakes in your summary: 4 gliders hit each other to make a stream of gliders. This isn't a gun, because a gun costs more. instead it's a GPSE, which looks like a gun from the barrel end, but has a limit. As it
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by biggiemac42 4y ago
This is a really good and not at all easy to answer question. The most I can say is that folks earlier this year used some SAT solver equivalent to find notable patterns that cannot be constructed - including a still life and an oscillator
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by biggiemac42 4y ago
Definitely worth trying to learn! As with most topics, it starts out seeming hard to grasp, and then you start naming things and recognizing them. What looks like jargon to an outsider is just a compressed way of communicating. The peopl
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by biggiemac42 4y ago
It can! A seed constellation for the initial gliders would be possible using the extra debris from the original collision. Without using that debris, there might be a problem reaching far enough without adding extra bits that each double
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by biggiemac42 4y ago
Hi there, I'm the author (of the blog post, not of the achievement itself)! So glad this is spreading. Feel free to ask here or on the post for more clarification if stuff is too unclear