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Sarp wrote:It seems like the web page is broken, are there any alternative links?

Here's a ZIP file containing a saved copy of the JAR file for 1.7 and the accompanying manual:

gameoflifemaniac wrote:You're a moderator on LifeWiki since you can add people to the trusted list?

Yes, in fact --- not that I have much time to spend on the wiki these days, mind...

Entity Valkyrie wrote:I am trusted and I am a life enthusiast. Please allow me to edit LifeWiki.

Done!

Rule speed differences between v3.x and v4.x, on an AMD A6-5200 running on both v3.28 and v4.52-ll1.52: B368/S245: 2100-2200 soups/sec for v3.x vs ~115 soups/sec for v4.x B3678/S34678: 18000-19000 soups/sec for v3.x vs 7700-7800 soups/sec for v4.x B36/S23: 2-3 soups/sec for v3.x vs 3-6 soups/sec fo...

My bad, I was supposed to paste this list: https://github.com/ceebo/glider_synth/blob/master/summary.txt I found the apgcode page and understood it, so thank you for that. I was unable to find anything on the numbering system (e.g. 16.1145 as you said). Would you mind explaining it or pointing me t...

In this list of glider syntheses for still lifes of at most 16 bits, what do the left and middle columns represent (I assume they're identifiers of each unique still life) and how are they calculated / named? First of all, welcome to the forums! That said, which list? Pattern naming in general is d...

256^(256^9), not (256^256)^9!!! (256^256)^9 is 3.844855995870422 × 10^5548, but 256^(256^9) is 10^(1.1372591694895835 × 10^22). Even so, the point still stands that 256^(256^9)/256! cannot possibly be correct, on account of not even being a natural number. (You may also want to reconsider the numbe...

Someone (presumably Apple Bottom) found a new (I think) p9 in D8_1: Yup, that's from one of my recent hauls (for the record: "This haul was submitted by Apple Bottom on 2018-09-14 at 00:15:24 UTC"). Also, replying to the older ones--- x = 10, y = 10, rule = B3/S23 3b2o$2bobo$2bo2b2o$2obobobo$bobo2b...

Hdjensofjfnen wrote:Are there any small spaceships that are period 2?

http://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title ... h_period_2

calcyman wrote:(Apple Bottom, any ideas?).

Afraid not --- I'm squarely in the "cargo cult" camp of programming here, so my only idea is this: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." -- "Don't do that then."

wwei23 wrote:This time the page loaded half right. But how do you load half a stylesheet properly?

Could you be so kind and stop posting this sort of thing? It's hardly relevant, and not worth notifying every single last subscriber to the thread of.

Redstoneboi wrote:did you mean contributions?

If you think about this for a few minutes, I think you'll be able to figure out the answer on your own.

I would think that the thrill (both personal and from the community at large) of finding a new spaceship or oscillator would far exceed the thrill of getting a badge indicating the same. I think the question worth asking here is "what are badges supposed to accomplish"? Or, more precisely, "how are...

wwei23 wrote:What the heck happened here?

Looks like the stylesheet didn't load properly. Move along, nothing to see here.

Macbi wrote:I think you are misremembering. That would be extremely magical if true.

You're probably right. I could've sworn, though... oh well.

Remember that although it was known right from the start that Life was universal (based, indeed, on one of those rather more abstract results previously proven for certain classes of CAs), even the glider wasn't found immediately. Is this true? I thought GoL was only proven universal once some glid...

I think one major factor in the recency of CA research, specifically CGoL, is that, to study the evolution of anything but the most basic patterns, you really need computing power. Before the 1970s, there really wasn't any way to simulate those larger patterns in any feasible time. Mind, CAs were s...

I don't know if this is off-topic, but is there any way we can prove that certain rules are not Turing-complete? B1 rules are trivially not Turing-complete, because every pattern expands at light speed, and so can't do the computation necessary (I believe). Is there some way to prove that any non-e...

I really despise the idea of downloading C++ just so apgsearch can run. C++ is such an unreadable and confusing language that it's really almost impossible to work with. :? You can't really "download C++" as such, but I understand what you mean. I think. That said, even if C++ is unreadable and/or ...

I'm a bit confused by this thread, because the latest version of apgsearch is already compatible with Python 3.x , without needing any further modifications. In fact, calcyman's comments in the link suggest it should be compatible with both 3.x and 2.x. Mind, that refers to the Python parts of apgl...

I installed Golly from the Debian package manager and wanted to tweak my hotkey settings. Since the built in hotkey editor is pretty bad (sorted by keys instead of actions), I can't see a list of all hotkeys there. On Windows, I was just able to find and edit my "GollyPrefs" file, but I can't find ...

77topaz wrote:searching b2-a4z678s234w with hauls of ~100 KB and ~2600 distinct objects once per minute

...yeah, that defies common sense, not to mention the ample warning given on the wiki.

Slow down cowboy!

EDIT: Calcyman tells me he's fixed this, by increasing the minimum required for that rule.

The object https://catagolue.appspot.com/object/xp4_199aaooaa991/b3s23 displays the correct object and links to soups, but instead of the correct name, it shows "?p4". Perhaps somebody gave this pattern the explicit name "?p4"? Yes, a few objects have names like that: xp3_69ba99b606b99ab96z69d599d6...

For example, :GPSE: and :BLSE: made it in, and they were in the final couple of weeks' changes. Do you see any other "for instance"s, besides the Sir Robin (2,1)c/7 problem? Nope --- that's the only one I spotted (and only because I'd fixed that myself in the source txt). What's the process for bui...

As objects get rarer, why don't we start including discoveries on people's pages for *all* objects, rather than everything but xs<30's? New discoveries are getting rarer, but they're certainly not rare yet. Compare my latest stats update on the wiki; there were (if I didn't miscount now) 223 new ob...