Life In 19x19

Kirby wrote:

dsatkas wrote: Why do people feel the need to elevate the importance of go in such ways?

Because we like go

That's irrelevant. You are seeing what you want to see.

dsatkas wrote:

Kirby wrote:

dsatkas wrote: Why do people feel the need to elevate the importance of go in such ways?

Because we like go

That's irrelevant. You are seeing what you want to see.

What's wrong with that? I think everyone has a perspective of the world based on what they interpret to be relevant...

Given the topic, I thought people might like the pattern on the facade of the newly opened Cambridge North railway station:

porky wrote:Is this count?

nope. for 2 reasons: monty and duckie existed decades before Aliffe nought, which, along with fiddling with molecular bonds or anything that comes in combinations, is just one of a gerzillion examples of a familiar phenomenon: a solution looking for problems, instead of a problem looking for solutions. expect more candy floss about monteduck for a few more years, until they kill a few more people with inappropriate synthetic medicines or duckie bombs that have a 63% chance of hitting their target, miss by a mile, and hit Washington instead.
PS the fractals of nature are more beautiful than any old 50 shades of grey junk that ain't even Sierpinski ____________________
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Uberdude wrote:Given the topic, I thought people might like the pattern on the facade of the newly opened Cambridge North railway station

Nice! But this is not the game of Life. What is it? I stared at this for a while and find that this is the state sequence of a 1-dimensional cellular automaton. For any given t the state is given on a line sloping down in SE direction. The next state, for time t+1, is below (that is, SW) of it. A cell is on at time t+1 when at time t it and its two neighbours were all on, or all off, or only it, or only its right neighbour were on. Thus the evolution for a starting state .XX.X.X....X........XX.X.X.XXXX is and this (or, rather, a 45 degree rotated version of this) is visible on the image.

https://www.amazon.com/Protracted-Game- ... 0195014936

Is a fascinating book, analyzing the US War in Vietnam from the point of view of Go on the one hand and Chess on the other. (Spoiler alert: The Go side won.)

The author was an American kid raised in China, who later went on to be appointed a Full Professor even though he never went to grad school. (I summarize, of course.)