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The strange case of Zhong Guo in Conway’s Game of Life
When at Princeton, I met, in addition to John Nash, the UK mathematician John Horton Conway, who’d been lured from Cambridge University to New Jersey: they made him an offer he could not refuse.… more →
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cellular automata
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wrote 3 months ago: In the 1970s, British mathematician John H. Conway invented a pastime called the Game of Life, which … more →
Why US Air Corps Servicemen Were Allowed to Wear Such Badass Bomber Jackets in World War II
wrote 5 months ago: Why US Air Corps Servicemen Were Allowed to Wear Such Badass Bomber Jackets in World War II I … more →
Conway's Game of Life
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wrote 1 year ago: Back in the year dot I worked on a computer called a PDP11 made by Digital Equipment Corporation. Th … more →
The Doomsday method of determining the day of the week for any date
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wrote 1 year ago: This entry has little to do with programming. However, it deals with something that has proven very … more →
How A Digital Ecosytem Relates To OUR Umwelt
wrote 2 years ago: Following on from my earlier post concerning how we might consider digital interactions with an ecos … more →
The Game of Life, and other square things...
wrote 2 years ago: Image via Wikipedia Life, which is a pretty complex and diverse thing to begin with, is full of many … more →
What's in a Name?
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wrote 2 years ago: The product value of a word can be calculated as follows: Assign each letter of the alphabet a value … more →
The strange case of Zhong Guo in Conway's Game of Life
wrote 3 years ago: When at Princeton, I met, in addition to John Nash, the UK mathematician John Horton Conway, who … more →
The Prime Number "Happy Face": not a discovery
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wrote 4 years ago: An earlier post made reference to a display that was produced erroneously, which contained a “ … more →
