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by dvgrn
Yesterday, 5:01 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Replies: 861
Views: 176504

Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

I don't think there should be separate articles for transmitting and receiving ends. I also don't think there should be separate articles for specific mechanisms. In my opinion, a single article would suffice, to provide an overview of all known notable mechanisms, reactions, tools for working with...
by dvgrn
Yesterday, 4:48 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Replies: 861
Views: 176504

Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

I'm thinking that "2c/3 signal receiver" is an uncontroversial use of the term "signal" -- it means a receiver for 2c/3 signal s, which are already represented on the LifeWiki with a redirect to "2c/3 wire". What are your thoughts on that? My thoughts is that there is an existing agreement to leave...
by dvgrn
Yesterday, 4:15 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Replies: 861
Views: 176504

Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

Not really. As far as I can tell by looking at forum posts, dvgrn was the one who invented both of those polemical labels . Aha, you seem to be right! -- about who used the terms first, not about whether they constitute "polemical labels". Now that I see where the first experimental uses were, I ca...
by dvgrn
Yesterday, 3:34 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Replies: 861
Views: 176504

Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

I would appreciate it, if there were no further attempts to ascribe to me these old, well-understood meanings of words and phrases. This terminology and these concepts are not my contribution. I don't think that anyone has ever intended to imply that you invented the idea of information-theory "sig...
by dvgrn
Yesterday, 2:30 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Replies: 861
Views: 176504

Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

... immutable unchanging signals cannot be a subset of active objects (they are not active objects). Sorry, we've been talking past each other for so long about this that I'm really surprised that this point isn't clear yet. I totally agree that unchanging information-theory signals aren't active o...
by dvgrn
Yesterday, 1:54 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Replies: 861
Views: 176504

Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

I don't know what exactly you mean when you say "confocaloid-signal". Would you please consider putting some more effort into understanding that point, then? It's been explained quite a number of times -- here , for example. As an immediate consequence, "moving object" cannot be a superset of "sign...
by dvgrn
Yesterday, 1:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for Discord crossposts
Replies: 13
Views: 1227

Re: Thread for Discord crossposts

I'm drawing a blank on why LifeViewer is giving an "unsupported rule name" error, since the rule is definitely out there in the LifeWiki Rule namespace It's because there's an error in the rule definition. The following line ends with a ) rather than a }. That's 15 minutes of my life I'm not gettin...
by dvgrn
Yesterday, 1:35 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Replies: 861
Views: 176504

Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

Considering that you are discussing the topic "2c/3 signal receiver", and there's just one signal (which is received) as long as you are focused on the receiving mechanism, it feels to me to be very confusing to apply the same word in the same discussion to mean a completely different thing. I'm so...
by dvgrn
Yesterday, 1:13 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Replies: 861
Views: 176504

Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

I don't really see how you would need three signals somewhere in either of those patterns. As far as I can tell, any working 2c/3 receiver accepts just one signal at a time, arriving through the wire. Um... we've been through this topic before, a truly impressive number of times. When I use the wor...
by dvgrn
Yesterday, 10:54 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Faster 2c/3 Wires
Replies: 41
Views: 4182

Re: Faster 2c/3 Wires

calcyman wrote:
Yesterday, 10:46 am
repeat time 834...
... It's an impressive coincidence that the first part of the staged-recovery mechanism, the Callahan G-to-H, also needs exactly 834 ticks to recover. (At least I think it must be a coincidence.)
by dvgrn
Yesterday, 10:33 am
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Replies: 861
Views: 176504

Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

Should a new category article be added for "2c/3 signal receiver"? I just put in a CurrentNews item for Entity Valkyrie's discovery, and wanted to have an article to link to -- but there doesn't seem to be one: "receiver" currently just redirects to "Herschel receiver". Details about the receiver en...
by dvgrn
Yesterday, 8:19 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Faster 2c/3 Wires
Replies: 41
Views: 4182

Re: Faster 2c/3 Wires

Entity Valkyrie 2 wrote:
Yesterday, 8:06 am
Got it! 2c/3 receiver, repeat time 876...
Awesome! For this kind of problem, 876 is a pretty darn good improvement over the previous record of 964 / 970 -- and it does work perfectly well on double-length signals, assuming I ran the test right, so it can be used just as well after a 2c/3 elbow.
by dvgrn
Yesterday, 8:04 am
Forum: Scripts
Topic: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
Replies: 29
Views: 419

Re: safeopenclip.lua usability issues

I've just commited an update to safeopenclip.lua for community testing. ... Note: This version benefits from a new build of Golly to suppress warnings while testing different rule variants. Looks good! The script is eminently testable using the current beta -- there's just one extra pop-up error wi...
by dvgrn
Yesterday, 7:54 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thread for Discord crossposts
Replies: 13
Views: 1227

Re: Thread for Discord crossposts

Discord crosspost request for context and discovery information of Rule:LiterallyAnEntireRuleForOneStupidSpaceship . What were the patterns? What is known about this thing? Not much, it appears! Sorry, I went and looked on Discord when you posted this request, but didn't find any satisfactory answe...
by dvgrn
Yesterday, 7:15 am
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Replies: 861
Views: 176504

Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

(Tell Ian07 not to upload any rules to LifeWiki unless allowed by the creator.) Posting rules to the conwaylife.com forums implies that they're available for public use, especially if those posts don't contain any labeling that says they're "just for test purposes". Should the posts where these rul...
by dvgrn
March 26th, 2024, 2:17 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Synthesizing guns
Replies: 7
Views: 252

Re: Synthesizing guns

How are the existing ones there, then? If I remember right, those four were maybe the only named gun patterns on the LifeWiki at one point, that had a " |synthesis = {N}" line in their infoboxes. Somebody who understands the connection between Catagolue and Shinjuku better than I do, submitted one ...
by dvgrn
March 26th, 2024, 1:57 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Synthesizing guns
Replies: 7
Views: 252

Re: Synthesizing guns

There isn't a particularly easy way to get a synthesis of a gun pattern into Catagolue, right? We either have to post a synthesis of a capped version of the gun using the nonmagical box.

-- Or, maybe alternatively, submit a pull request to Shinjuku?
by dvgrn
March 25th, 2024, 2:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly
Replies: 47
Views: 3495

Re: [Rule]Investigator support in Golly

I'm still looking for feedback about what exactly the toStandard.lua, toSuper.lua, and toHistory.lua conversion scripts should do with [Rule]Investigator rules =-- and what toInvestigator.lua should do with Super and History patterns. I think I have a workable plan to start with, anyway: First I'll ...
by dvgrn
March 25th, 2024, 10:06 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Faster 2c/3 Wires
Replies: 41
Views: 4182

Re: Faster 2c/3 Wires

I just built a true period-41 emitter for the 2c/3 signal, which I optimized as much as I could... Nice! It looks like that works down to p36, at the 2c/3 signal insertion side anyway -- the LWSS stream would have to be built differently somehow. Not sure what the best solution would be for that. A...
by dvgrn
March 25th, 2024, 9:33 am
Forum: Scripts
Topic: Logic Life Search
Replies: 256
Views: 157158

Re: Logic Life Search

by dvgrn
March 25th, 2024, 9:18 am
Forum: Scripts
Topic: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
Replies: 29
Views: 419

Re: safeopenclip.lua usability issues

Unless I'm missing something, that would imply restrictions on rule filenames that are analogous to existing restrictions on LifeWiki pnames. In particular, "+" and "^" would have to be rejected. Allowed rule filenames would be those allowed by existing conventions in "Help->File Formats->@RULE" (a...
by dvgrn
March 25th, 2024, 8:55 am
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Replies: 861
Views: 176504

Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

Suggested fix: undo for the first linked edit (page Butterfly hasslers ); clarify relevance for second edit (page Silver's p5 ). Question for hassler-builders and other terminology experts: is there more or less of a consensus that to be a "hassler" of Object X, a pattern has to have hassling objec...
by dvgrn
March 25th, 2024, 7:44 am
Forum: Scripts
Topic: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
Replies: 29
Views: 419

Re: safeopenclip.lua usability issues

This is deliberate. If there is an error in the bounded grid definition and it's carried across to the safe rule then the pattern still won't open. What do you think of the two-stage approach? Try opening the safe rule with the bounded-grid suffix, and then if that doesn't work, try the safe rule w...
by dvgrn
March 24th, 2024, 3:44 pm
Forum: Scripts
Topic: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
Replies: 29
Views: 419

Re: safeopenclip.lua usability issues

Maybe instead add a status bar message along the lines "Unknown rule; the pattern is converted to a default 256-state rule; go to View -> Pattern Info to get the original rulestring". Yup, something along those lines seems like the important info to put in the status bar. It might not be necessary,...
by dvgrn
March 24th, 2024, 12:39 pm
Forum: Scripts
Topic: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
Replies: 29
Views: 419

Re: safeopenclip.lua usability issues

[*] (a) these lines clutter pattern comments. The more is added, the harder it is to understand what is going on. The instructions belong to help system. The idea of cluttering pattern comments with extra added lines was originally yours , not mine. Once the script is adding a new comment line anyw...