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Sounds like a pursuit where we win either way

Publishing findings that amount to an admission that you and others spent a fortune studying a dead end is career suicide and guarantees your excommunication from the realm of study and polite society. If a popular theory is wrong, some unlucky martyr must first introduce incontrovertible proof and then humanity must wait for the entire generation of practitioners whose careers are built on it to die.

Unless the overall cost is too high, but yes it's definitely worth pursuing as far as we currently know.

and green

Zero. Non-zero only if someone says something deemed “woke”.

IKR?!

Is it possible that one is an input photo and the other is generative AI output?

Regular...albeit astronomically large (unless we're granting idealizations like infinite context, etc.)

Exactly, same as all real-world computers.

Although to be fair, nothing above regular (that I'm aware of, it's been a while) requires infinite space, just unlimited space... you can always make a real Turing machine as long as you keep adding more tape whenever it needs it.


Yeah, meant to say unbounded

It's comforting, at least, that the electorate sends people who will keep important agencies like the EPA & FDA healthy and who will only appoint the best & brightest to run them.

Very cool. It eventually got stuck for me, too, towards the bottom. Stuck detection would be a next step.

Then you could plot the change in score for the current war, and overlay other plots that different wars took.


For context, here’s an old article about how he kept asking his advisors about actions against Venezuela throughout his first term. Old flames never die.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/04/trump-sugges...


Why do you think it would not be possible?


To make a new cell "live" it must be neighbored by three live cells. And in 2d, a cell only has two neighbors.


A 1d row of cells also affects nearby cells above and below the line. Consider a row of three cells:

https://parkscomputing.com/page/conways-game-of-life?boardSi...

That produces a spinner, because the empty cells above and below the 1d row have three live cells nearby.


Yes, which is not what adzm asked for.


s/2d/1d/ right?


Oh, right.


I see what you're saying, but I think it's a misunderstanding. 1D here only means that there's some state where the active cells are confined to one row — but one row within the ordinary 2D GoL plane. I'm sure the next iteration leaps off the line immediately. Search for "Blinker" here to imagine how it could start spreading off the line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life


Right, but that's not what adzm was asking about.


The GP understood that.


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