obligatory explainer on symmetrical voice alignment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOk--b_zSvE

Ah, nostalgia.

Someone better make another called Rasengan.

...if there's a GoL version where time varies somehow¹ with something²

¹ directly?

² amount of activity? mass?

There have been a lot of GoL variants over the years, but I don't remember running into any attempts to vary the speed of evolution in different locations on the same grid.

The idea that all neighbors move to the next tick simultaneously is a fundamental assumption in cellular automata in general. If you try changing that, the optimizations that allow us to simulate CAs at any kind of reasonable speed ... all stop working, pretty much. It's kind of painful even to think about.

Which means there are probably very interesting rules out there somewhere, where CAs run faster/slower depending on pattern density -- it's just going to be very tricky to explore that particular search space.

Well, there is SmoothLife (e.g. https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1111.1567/#S4) where the time step is also made continuous. I suppose you could extend this so that this isn't some uniform value across the entire space, but instead a value that is constantly recomputed based on neighbourhood density.

The "superstep" that we practically impose upon simulations of entropy and emergence is out of accord with our modern understanding of non-regularly-quantizable spacetime. The debuggable Von Neumann instruction pipeline precludes "in-RAM computing" which conceivably does converge if consensus-level error correction is necessary.

The term 'superstep' reminds me of the HashLife algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife for computing the Game of Life. It computes multiple generations at the same time, and runs at different speeds in different parts of the universe, but only with the purpose of computing CGoL faster, not to introduce any relativity.

Welp, this ate my time. Fun. Cool.

Second attempt.

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Soon, I will master this.

Soon, I will be able to just let my ideas flow.

Soon there will be no need for huge edits while typing.

Soon there will be shape in the words as they come out.

Maybe I should just delete the words myself and start over.

Or may I should just let the words be even if I don't like them.

Soon, I will master this.

Soon, I will be able to not stop.

Soon, I will be able to say what's really on my mind.

I wonder why there is friction between the words.

I wonder why the ideas in my head does not get reflected into words as I see them inside me.

Is it really true that I have ideas in me, or is it just an illusion?

Why are so many of the things I think I'm thinking about don't really just come out once I start trying to record them?

Do my ideas really exist? Or am I just imagining having them?

Do ideas matter if they are not told? Even to oneself?

Soon, I will get the answer to these questions.

Soon, I will master this.

Soon, I will survive the grueling task of coming up with ideas.

I am a writer.

I am a writer because I write.

I could write without having to think first.

My ideas will just come right out of me into words.

My ideas are real.

Soon, I will master the art of coming up with ideas.

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I think it came out kind of alright.

Remember the sliding doors button technique? Good times.

For a while there I thought Microsoft will ship Firefox as default and halt their browser efforts altogether.

Edge will go open source before that happens.

Big parts of Edge are already open source.

Exactly my point.

the Philippines:

"one of the starkest patterns I saw outsourcing there was their strong affinity to PHP. This isn't intended to be a derogatory... the LAMP stack is really appealing to folks who don't have much cash... the Microsoft stack... was simply much harder to find competence in. You'd go to a vendor and their default position was 'Yeah, we can do that in PHP and MySQL'"

Java and PHP are traditionally the most popular introductory languages being taught in CS courses (CE students are usually taught C).

I see some schools switching to Python as an introduction course. But generally, the pace at which the educational system move to update their curriculum is glacial. Heck, I even see some schools still teaching VB6!