[HN Gopher] Conway's Gradient of Life
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Conway's Gradient of Life
Author : networked
Score : 155 points
Date : 2024-10-09 09:45 UTC (2 days ago)
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| dvh wrote:
| Few days ago I posted this:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743887
| mbauman wrote:
| Atavising was new to me. From
| https://nbickford.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/reversing-the-gam... :
|
| > First of all, while I said "Predecessorifier" in the talk,
| "Ataviser" seems to be the accepted word, coming from "Atavism",
| which the online Merriam-Webster dictionary defines as
| "recurrence of or reversion to a past style, manner, outlook,
| approach, or activity".
| Jerrrrrrry wrote:
| "its like showing a solved rubiks cube and asking what the
| scramble was"
|
| ^ this analogy may be the best I've seen in a long time.
| xfreesoft wrote:
| https://github.com/vtempest/Automated-Automata One idea is to
| have the gradient patterns emergent from simple rules calculating
| prior numbers with no need for hand of God intrvention.
| Hugsun wrote:
| Interesting. I can't zoom on mobile which is frustrating.
| conorpo wrote:
| Seeing alot of parallels to the article by Stephen Wolfram posted
| a few days back on the fundamental nature of time .
| sleepingreset wrote:
| which?
| jwood27 wrote:
| I made a related crossword puzzle. You can find it here if you
| want to give it a try! https://jacobw.xyz/projects/crossword/
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