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Here's the writeup I mentioned yesterday, that could be a starting point for a LifeWiki page. Existing uses of "transition" could link to this explanation. Now is not necessarily the right time to add a page like this to the LifeWiki -- I'm happy to continue the discussion as long as there seem to b...

I want to see those changes be implemented, and I would support using them in LifeWiki articles in general. Many thanks! Your response and H. H. P. M. P. Cole's are exactly the kind of feedback that I've been asking for, from people who would like to see confocaloid's suggested transition->conditio...

I'm sorry to say this, but I am on confocaloid's side. Why sorry? People agreeing with confocaloid, especially about the proper definition of "transition", is exactly what I've been asking for. It's not quite clear to me yet if the definition of "transition" is what you're agreeing with confocaloid...

The most productive thing to do would be for you to acknowledge that you're a side in this conflict, and undo your edit adding the only redlink to that target. No other changes from you are needed at this point in this debate. I certainly do acknowledge that in some sense I'm "a side in this confli...

...the most productive thing to do remains to wait until someone else , an uninvolved editor, decides to go and fix the actual problems with LifeWiki articles. Um... it's true that there's no particularly huge urgency about settling this issue. On the other hand, I've tried this "most productive" o...

Applying the label "forum jargon" to an idea doesn't disqualify it from consideration. Quite a number of people have now stated that the current use of "transition" on the LifeWiki is perfectly acceptable. No one has yet spoken up to say specifically that they want to see your proposed changes to th...

The word 'transition', as used on these forums, is local forum jargon. It's not a technical term, and doesn't have a single well-defined universal meaning. Different people mean different things in different contexts when they use the word. I don't see any evidence at all of any of these statements...

... confocaloid is completely correct in arguing that LifeWiki articles should be edited for ease of understanding, even if it means replacing "transition" with "condition" wherever it would make the meaning more intuitive. Sure, I can agree completely with that -- nothing wrong with ease of unders...

It cannot be an article about a single well-defined concept, because it's basically forum jargon, rather than a single well-defined universally-understood term. What would you suggest as the content of a "transition" disambiguation page? Of the three definitions you mention, the first two don't see...

It's been several months since the "transition" vs. "condition" argument ran out of steam. This seems like the thread that most succinctly collected the relevant explanations of the different definitions of "transition", along with the differing philosophies of LifeWiki explication that might make o...

The report button isn't really designed for disputes such as this: it should only be used to alert moderators to actual spam, or offensive content, or other things that are severely inappropriate. Seconded. I've gone ahead and closed all seven of the post reports -- they were collectively a much mo...

Maybe the intended question is "What patterns can be improved by recent new discoveries?" I.e., what can we build better now, but we just haven't gotten around to it yet? The example that always comes to mind for me these days is the "SQ" / "B2D" two-dimensional memory component in the Osqrtlogt pat...

If the clipboard data does look like valid supported script (Python/Lua), show a warning message saying this: The clipboard appears to contain a <insert language name here> script. Do you want to run it? --- <insert clipboard text here so that the Golly user can preview it, before deciding whether ...

Copying each of the following RLEs into clipboard and doing "File -> Run Clipboard" causes the error message appended after that RLE... The first two messages seem to make some sense -- they're what happen if you try to interpret RLE as code. Probably it does make sense to disallow running anything...

I just checked out ChatGPT on Conway's Life topics again, and it has definitely improved -- in the sense that it now seems to be able to admit when it doesn't know something, rather than just making things up out of whole cloth: dvgrn: In Conway's Game of Life, what is a reverse caber tosser? ChatGP...

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April 23rd, 2024, 1:03 am

Where is the OCA Discovery of the Year voting topic?

There isn't a voting thread yet, I believe, just the nomination thread. Apparently there's some work left to be done still, on the LIfeWiki nomination lists.

It's at least a G-to-Loaf if you remove the Eater-Bridge-Eater... G-to-beehive, I think you mean? Pretty good clearance. Possibly good enough to manage some kind of restore-the-bait trick, in just the right situation. A glider following after the first one will make a fairly clean output Herschel, ...

with the two gifs, i was expirementing to see if i could post them on a forum post if i uploaded them to the wiki. it didnt work. Why not just make inline attachments to forum posts, directly? I've done an inline attachment and a regular attachment to your recent eye of the glider post , to show th...

What is this? File:Eye of the glider.gif File:B2n3 s23.gif https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Us:0e&redirect=no https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Us:ta&redirect=no https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=U:UN&redirect=no The last three are abbreviation pages, but what about the other ...

Should I push this change to GitHub right now? (There are also a few additions, since oscillators keep being discovered, but it should be an overall reduction in file size.) A push to GitHub seems fine. Or ... is there any reason to do some kind of fork at this point? I.e., is there still any possi...

Not sure what to do about the other two patterns. I've checked in improvements to both of these. Not sure how the comments ended up disappearing from the signal-turns-and-fizzles pattern, but it was probably my fault -- it's easy to lose them when changing formats to .rle.gz or .mc.gz. If someone w...

I just have no idea what is or isn't in range to be synthesized and I assume/hope this i the right place to ask. Hmm. Syntheses of objects like xs20_31248g0s248gzy21y11246 make me wonder if it might end up being workable to grow that wick from one end, rather than building separate pieces and then ...

What is https://lazyslug.com/lifeview/plugin/ ? That's the root directory for Chris Rowett's LifeViewer test bed -- lots of sample patterns, which for the latest build of LifeViewer should all still do ... some appropriate thing related to what the test case is named. It might be good to collect a ...

Is there a 0-degree reflector such that no objects block [its] output lane? No elementary stable shifters yet with transparent output lanes, if I'm remembering right. You didn't disallow periodic shifters, so the glider pusher technically counts, though it's not elementary either. It's easy to cobb...

Another question : What is the fastest Stable Edge Shooter in repeat time ? That's another category that could use a collection thread. It would be a fairly small collection, unless you included transparent-lane mechanisms like the Scorbie Splitter and Extrementhusiast's Transparent Turner. But the...