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Nice, kudos to everyone involved for your excellent ongoing work!

The latest Lexicon fixes don't seem to have made it into the bundled Lexicon in this release though --- for instance, Sir Robin is still listed as (2,1)c/7 in :spaceship:.

Billabob wrote:Is there a reason we have 14 pages for bipole extensions?

Yes.

wildmyron wrote:The table of elementary spaceships in the entry for :spaceship: has an error:

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 (2,1)c/7 oblique    Sir Robin         Adam P. Goucher    Mar 2018

which obviously should read (2,1)c/6.

Already corrected (but I can't build/push updated lexicons, so it's not showing up anywhere yet).

Noticed this in a quote on the forum - [b]:sparse Life[/b] ... but it is not at all clear that there is any mechanism for these to deal with _the all_ junk produced by switch engines. Thanks --- fixed. (And also updated the "reverse caber tosser" entry to reflect the fact that the best lower bound ...

Congratulations! I've edited the wiki accordingly, and awaiting Apple Bottom to change the protected number 329 to 59. Oh, oops. The template itself shouldn't be protected -- isn't, in fact -- but I foolishly used it on Template:CurrentNews, which is included on the Main Page, and as a result it en...

I've made some major speed improvements to object detection in apgluxe v4.45-ll1.54 , lessening the effect of 'tail soups'. Can you confirm whether it beats 3.28 on C4_4 now? I just checked, using the same test seed ("MiAmoreCadenza") as before. Here's the soup timing breakdown for 4.45-ll1.54: 0 t...

Because it's highly dependent on the soups themselves, you'll get a more accurate comparison by using the -s option to coerce apgluxe and apgmera to have the same seed and therefore run the same sequence of soups. I'd be interested to see if there are cases in which v3.28 outperforms v4.44 on the s...

onit wrote:Woah spam really seems to be an issue here. Yo can someone add me as trusted on wiki? It would be greatly appreciated!

Done!

@AppleBottom, you were still finding 3.28 to be faster last time I checked. Have you tried testing 4.44 against 3.28 yet? (Since you're on AVX1, I'd expect 4.44 to be much faster than 3.28, at least assuming your architecture resembles benetnasch85's.) I just gave it a try. 4.44-ll1.53 is faster th...

Macbi wrote:We should probably edit these pages on the wiki so that the "Glider synthesis" section reads as

Fewest gliders 264 (67)

Where the bracketed number (I used 67 as an example) links to the reverse-caber-tosser page.

Indeed --- FWIW this is already being discussed on the wiki.

KittyTac wrote:What would be the best way for it to defend against switch engines and gliders flying in its direction? Building walls? Shooting *WSSs in random directions?

Building IceNine, clearly.

Adding to the pile of work-to-be-done, rather than reducing it --- now that we've got a reverse caber tosser, surely that deserves a Lexicon entry. Should we wait until after v29 and queue it for v30, or is it OK inserting new material at this late stage of the review process?

I suspect that this comment is from a spambot. It's a new user (written only five minutes after they registered) commenting on a thread that's been dead since 2012; the post does not contain any spam links in itself , and while the text is something that could theoretically have been written by a r...

grabadora305 wrote:I was told I have to come here to request the trusted flag?

You do indeed, and you've got it now!

dvgrn wrote:Ah, got it. Suppose I just make a habit of deleting the post reporting the spam, along with the spam itself? Would anyone object to that?

Please do --- the less clutter there is on the forums, the better!

I've followed instructions for now, but have to admit I'm very tempted to delete the whole thread. It's not in the Sandbox, and so far there isn't any content that has any business being in the main forums. Given it's just a spam thread, there is little reason not to delete it outright... and if an...

David wrote:Would you have me trusted: David?

Done!

Thanks! I presume you're referring to the recent B3/S23 speed improvements which take it beyond v3.28? I still have a few ideas about how to make B3/S23 even faster by reducing the instruction count in the iterator. On the subject of speed improvements, 4.4 is still slower than 3.28 for me, or so i...

I'm not sure whether to post this in this thread or in " Soup search results in rules other than Conway's Life ", but I reckon people subscribed to this thread might be more specifically interested, so--- Here's a gun that apgsearch found (and classified as a https://catagolue.appspot.com/object/zz_...

Yikes, this is a relatively scary one. At least one of those posts was on-target enough that it didn't immediately make me suspicious (though it was also vague enough that I wasn't tempted to try to answer it). All cleaned up for now. Here's hoping whoever-it-is gives up and goes elsewhere -- that ...

Apparently there are now Catagolue censuses about non-totaliatic Generations rules, like this one . List of rules investigated on Catagolue needs to be updated accordingly. ~~~~ Don't worry, these will show up in the next scheduled update of the List Of Rules(tm), which is due to be made on Saturda...

And here's a robot reposting random snippets originally written by others in a variety of threads.

This probably explains why some people are more insistent than others about editing previous posts vs. double-posting. When a thread on an interesting topic gets used as if it's a chat system, there's always a new notification for the thread even if you just checked it, but then when you go and loo...

Can anybody troubleshoot what exactly happened here (with the exception of the obvious memory error)?[/code] Looks like this is thrown in several places in lifelib, specifically in hashtrees/kivtable.h , when calls to posix_memalign(3) fail. Looking at the man page for that in turn, there's two pos...

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