TophWells

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by TophWells 7mo ago
True, but if that is found to be how it works then an automated AI rewrite of closed-source code is just as unbound by the original license. Which is a much bigger win for the open-source community, since any closed-source software can beco
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by TophWells 7mo ago
The author wrote a blog post a year later titled '"Lena" isn't about uploading' https://qntm.org/uploading The comments on this post discussing the upload technology are missing the point. "Len
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by TophWells 11mo ago
Let's see if I understood this right. For the Betweenness Amazing Dragons rule: * Compute the "betweenness" of each living cell, which is 1 divided by its degree. Cells which are not connected to anything have infinite/u
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by TophWells 11mo ago
Could you try explaining it in a comment? Not the general principle, but just the rules for one particular automaton. Whichever one is your favourite. Or Amazing Dragons, if you don't have a favourite. The amazing part of cellular auto
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by TophWells 11mo ago
The Game of Life implementation in this post is based on a torus. Watch the gliders when they go off the edge of the screen: they return from the other side!
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by TophWells 11mo ago
So what actually is it? None of the rules in the videos look particularly striking compared to other Life-like cellular automata and 2d cellular automata in general. As you say, their behaviour includes oscillators, spaceships, patterns tha
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by TophWells 2y ago
It's back up now!
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by TophWells 7y ago
If they can, certainly. Assuming the developer still exists, and they still have the source code, some idea of the build environment, and they want their game to still be accessible. And even then: https://mightyvision.blogspot.c
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by TophWells 11y ago
Quite possibly, yes - if you can find the page that gives "your" account information, the language often matches the location. I should really stop poking around, but this is a fascinatingly bizarre error. Has anyone seen anything
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by TophWells 12y ago
The video doesn't exactly make it look like a master of subtlety. They only show it on really obvious, simple emotions. Nothing too complex. Still creepy. Who would ever need this? Apart from people with diagnosable mental disorders, I
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by TophWells 12y ago
Me neither. Are they new?
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by TophWells 12y ago
The curve editor works very nicely. Did you write it yourself? I'm working on something similar, and it's really interesting to see all the things you did differently.
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by TophWells 12y ago
The punishment, from the sound of it.
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by TophWells 12y ago
In the game? No. The shortest distance between two points is still a straight line.
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by TophWells 12y ago
What the fourth dimension is depends entirely on what order you put the dimensions in :)
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by TophWells 12y ago
In the 2D/3D world, the rubble just fell off the wall and landed next to it. It's only strange because it fell in the direction that the player character doesn't normally perceive. In the 3D/4D world, the rubble fell off
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by TophWells 12y ago
"Fresh Apples here! Only the best apples for 2 dollars!" "I would like 1000 apples, please." "Sir, I only have 600 apples in the shop. I can give you those now, and I'll ask the guy across the street if he has
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by TophWells 12y ago
And it was always blessed greased +2 grey dragon scale mail.
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by TophWells 12y ago
The white lines are supposed to be the paths, not the walls.
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by TophWells 12y ago
>I wonder if this works backwards - given a tree could you construct a maze? efficiently? There are trees for which no rectangular maze exists - for example, any tree with a vertex of degree greater than 4. Or the tree with 4 vertices ar
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by TophWells 12y ago
Almost certainly. Supply, demand, and so on.
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by TophWells 12y ago
Zero.
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by TophWells 12y ago
Two people have to share a cake, and one of them wants to.
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by TophWells 12y ago
Did you get Numberwang?
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by TophWells 12y ago
>In any case, John von Neumann proved a long time ago that any nonzero sum game with n players can be modeled as a zero sum game with n+1 players, where the n+1 player represents the global state. TUA is simply an implementation of this
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by TophWells 12y ago
Does it say "Loading ..." in the top-right corner?
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by TophWells 12y ago
I'm rather disappointed that in spite of promises that transactions can be non-zero sum, on close inspection these transactions just draw money from other accounts - usually TUA. From the description, I expected new Strangecoins to be
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by TophWells 12y ago
Clever and pretty. Is it possible to add an "absorb" slider to the walls? I'm having trouble making some of the effects I'm trying for.
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by TophWells 12y ago
Because HN is just the webmaster's hobby and has a few weird hacks like that. Although I'm not actually sure it's a session ID we're looking at in the URL.
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by TophWells 12y ago
I think $100M per year makes up for those side effects. There will always be people whose workflows are interrupted by a new change, and legacy systems that don't like it for their own reasons. There are already systems in place to han

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