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- April 30th, 2024, 12:43 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Thread for your speculative elementary conduits
- Replies: 285
- Views: 37712
Re: Thread for your speculative elementary conduits
L141... Wow! That's a rare one. There are even a couple of completely Spartan versions, in the oldest sense of "Spartan" -- a sidesnagger works, and/or there's no need to weld the eater to the boat, unless additional clearance is needed for the output. And two of them can be chained together: x = 5...
- April 29th, 2024, 11:22 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: LifeWiki Trusted Account Request Thread - Post requests here
- Replies: 798
- Views: 293148
Re: LifeWiki Trusted Account Request Thread - Post requests here
No problem! Okay, then, close enough...Haycat2009 wrote: ↑April 29th, 2024, 9:35 pmBut today is April 30 in my Time zone. Sorry for hassling you or sounding like an unblock request.
(Maybe we're halfway between a 30-day month and a 31-day month now.)
- April 29th, 2024, 11:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 4817
- Views: 1236500
Re: Thread for basic questions
tradition or something idk Pretty much exactly that. Those were John Conway's terms, from around 1970 -- it somehow didn't seem quite as weird a choice back then. But 1970 was somewhere around the time when people were only just starting to think that maybe using "he" as a "gender-neutral" indefini...
- April 29th, 2024, 7:56 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: LifeWiki Trusted Account Request Thread - Post requests here
- Replies: 798
- Views: 293148
Re: LifeWiki Trusted Account Request Thread - Post requests here
I think that 1 month (plus 3 days) is over. Do not forget that the block is for one month! Not to worry, I'm keeping a close eye on the date. The tempban, or rather temp-trusted-flag-removal, was on March 30, and tomorrow is April 30. (... That might be a month plus one day depending on how you cal...
- April 29th, 2024, 6:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 4817
- Views: 1236500
Re: Thread for basic questions
are these bitmaps built in or do you have to paste them in? There's no need to think of a Python script as a deep dark mystery -- just read it and see what it seems to be doing. You don't really have to know Python to do that. The script currently has a sample pre-defined character map that looks l...
- April 29th, 2024, 4:28 pm
- Forum: Website Discussion
- Topic: Thread for your website-related questions
- Replies: 351
- Views: 57400
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
This may be the wrong thread, but how do I contribute to b3s23osc_stdin and Catagolue's gun and guntrue pages? Either this thread or the "Basic questions" thread seems like a reasonable choice -- Catagolue isn't really the conwaylife.com website, but it's linked to in the header anyway! For an over...
- April 29th, 2024, 3:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 4817
- Views: 1236500
Re: Thread for basic questions
Can you provide a printer that prints out any ASCII character? I need it for a hypothetical typewriter and the simple “Hello world” program. That linked post has all the tools you need to build a printer like that. You supply the bitmaps of the characters that you want, at the resolution that you w...
- April 27th, 2024, 10:09 am
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 102
- Views: 5479
Re: Rule definition terminology
Here's the writeup I mentioned yesterday, that could be a starting point for a LifeWiki page. Existing uses of "transition" could link to this explanation. Now is not necessarily the right time to add a page like this to the LifeWiki -- I'm happy to continue the discussion as long as there seem to b...
- April 27th, 2024, 8:12 am
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 102
- Views: 5479
Re: Rule definition terminology
I want to see those changes be implemented, and I would support using them in LifeWiki articles in general. Many thanks! Your response and H. H. P. M. P. Cole's are exactly the kind of feedback that I've been asking for, from people who would like to see confocaloid's suggested transition->conditio...
- April 26th, 2024, 10:57 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 102
- Views: 5479
Re: Rule definition terminology
I'm sorry to say this, but I am on confocaloid's side. Why sorry? People agreeing with confocaloid, especially about the proper definition of "transition", is exactly what I've been asking for. It's not quite clear to me yet if the definition of "transition" is what you're agreeing with confocaloid...
- April 26th, 2024, 9:12 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 102
- Views: 5479
Re: Rule definition terminology
The most productive thing to do would be for you to acknowledge that you're a side in this conflict, and undo your edit adding the only redlink to that target. No other changes from you are needed at this point in this debate. I certainly do acknowledge that in some sense I'm "a side in this confli...
- April 26th, 2024, 8:49 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 102
- Views: 5479
Re: Rule definition terminology
...the most productive thing to do remains to wait until someone else , an uninvolved editor, decides to go and fix the actual problems with LifeWiki articles. Um... it's true that there's no particularly huge urgency about settling this issue. On the other hand, I've tried this "most productive" o...
- April 26th, 2024, 8:20 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 102
- Views: 5479
Re: Rule definition terminology
Applying the label "forum jargon" to an idea doesn't disqualify it from consideration. Quite a number of people have now stated that the current use of "transition" on the LifeWiki is perfectly acceptable. No one has yet spoken up to say specifically that they want to see your proposed changes to th...
- April 26th, 2024, 8:10 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 102
- Views: 5479
Re: Rule definition terminology
The word 'transition', as used on these forums, is local forum jargon. It's not a technical term, and doesn't have a single well-defined universal meaning. Different people mean different things in different contexts when they use the word. I don't see any evidence at all of any of these statements...
- April 26th, 2024, 7:52 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 102
- Views: 5479
Re: Rule definition terminology
... confocaloid is completely correct in arguing that LifeWiki articles should be edited for ease of understanding, even if it means replacing "transition" with "condition" wherever it would make the meaning more intuitive. Sure, I can agree completely with that -- nothing wrong with ease of unders...
- April 25th, 2024, 4:07 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 102
- Views: 5479
Re: Rule definition terminology
It cannot be an article about a single well-defined concept, because it's basically forum jargon, rather than a single well-defined universally-understood term. What would you suggest as the content of a "transition" disambiguation page? Of the three definitions you mention, the first two don't see...
- April 25th, 2024, 3:35 pm
- Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
- Topic: Rule definition terminology
- Replies: 102
- Views: 5479
Re: Rule definition terminology
It's been several months since the "transition" vs. "condition" argument ran out of steam. This seems like the thread that most succinctly collected the relevant explanations of the different definitions of "transition", along with the differing philosophies of LifeWiki explication that might make o...
- April 25th, 2024, 7:52 am
- Forum: Other Cellular Automata
- Topic: Very nearly exploding rules
- Replies: 201
- Views: 106659
Re: Very nearly exploding rules
The report button isn't really designed for disputes such as this: it should only be used to alert moderators to actual spam, or offensive content, or other things that are severely inappropriate. Seconded. I've gone ahead and closed all seven of the post reports -- they were collectively a much mo...
- April 24th, 2024, 11:26 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 4817
- Views: 1236500
Re: Thread for basic questions
Maybe the intended question is "What patterns can be improved by recent new discoveries?" I.e., what can we build better now, but we just haven't gotten around to it yet? The example that always comes to mind for me these days is the "SQ" / "B2D" two-dimensional memory component in the Osqrtlogt pat...
- April 24th, 2024, 10:34 am
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: Golly bugs
- Replies: 119
- Views: 20079
Re: Golly bugs
If the clipboard data does look like valid supported script (Python/Lua), show a warning message saying this: The clipboard appears to contain a <insert language name here> script. Do you want to run it? --- <insert clipboard text here so that the Golly user can preview it, before deciding whether ...
- April 24th, 2024, 8:30 am
- Forum: Bugs & Errors
- Topic: Golly bugs
- Replies: 119
- Views: 20079
Re: Golly bugs
Copying each of the following RLEs into clipboard and doing "File -> Run Clipboard" causes the error message appended after that RLE... The first two messages seem to make some sense -- they're what happen if you try to interpret RLE as code. Probably it does make sense to disallow running anything...
- April 23rd, 2024, 9:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: ChatGPT 3.5 and Google Bard on Life
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2930
Re: ChatGPT 3.5 and Google Bard on Life
I just checked out ChatGPT on Conway's Life topics again, and it has definitely improved -- in the sense that it now seems to be able to admit when it doesn't know something, rather than just making things up out of whole cloth: dvgrn: In Conway's Game of Life, what is a reverse caber tosser? ChatGP...
- April 23rd, 2024, 7:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thread for basic questions
- Replies: 4817
- Views: 1236500
Re: Thread for basic questions
There isn't a voting thread yet, I believe, just the nomination thread. Apparently there's some work left to be done still, on the LIfeWiki nomination lists.
- April 21st, 2024, 6:40 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Still-life 'factories'
- Replies: 219
- Views: 135418
Re: Still-life 'factories'
It's at least a G-to-Loaf if you remove the Eater-Bridge-Eater... G-to-beehive, I think you mean? Pretty good clearance. Possibly good enough to manage some kind of restore-the-bait trick, in just the right situation. A glider following after the first one will make a fairly clean output Herschel, ...
- April 20th, 2024, 8:17 pm
- Forum: Website Discussion
- Topic: Thread for your website-related questions
- Replies: 351
- Views: 57400
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
with the two gifs, i was expirementing to see if i could post them on a forum post if i uploaded them to the wiki. it didnt work. Why not just make inline attachments to forum posts, directly? I've done an inline attachment and a regular attachment to your recent eye of the glider post , to show th...