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Would it be possible to make the preferred way of sharing patterns (i.e. code tags) easier to discover and use for newcomers, and to make the "viewer" tags less visible in the "Post a reply" form? I think it is inconsistent that the button for the recommended feature is harder to notice (the UI enc...

Constructablility is vague, so how am I supposed to know which context? Anyway, as I said, constructablility is not integral to blockicness. Constructibility is directly relevant to Blockicness, though -- Blockic constellations appear in contexts where constructibility matters. The advantage of res...

Do you understand the difference between slow salvo construction and an arbitrary glider synthesis? Anyways, you only need 2 gliders for a bi-block - same as a block. This topic is covered in chapter 5.7 "Slow salvo synthesis" in the textbook . Constructablility is vague, so how am I supposed to kn...

I consider bi-blocks (and all other patches of block agar) as blockic pseudo still lives, so by my definition bi-blocks are allowed in a blockic constellation. It is clear that this is your definition. But the question is about the established meaning. Blockic constellations appear in contexts wher...

b-engine wrote: ↑

December 5th, 2023, 5:18 am

A: Like ground
Q: First existence of Life

A: 3.7 billion years ago

Q: What is dvgrn's fav colour?

Can we prove that 25P3H1V0.1 and 25P3H1V0.2 are the smallest c/3 spaceships?

Why do so many patterns in LtL moore look like doughnuts, regardless of range (of at least 2)? Spaceships, oscillators and still lifes tend to look like doughnuts in Bosco's rule and many other LtL.

In my opinion, only strict volatility is defined for spaceships - technically, the volatility of all spaceships is 1 or it would be a puffer/wickstretcher.

haaaaaands wrote: ↑

November 22nd, 2023, 7:38 pm

what's the apgcode of the o(sqrt(log(t)))?

What is the o(sqrt(log(t))) in the first place?

b-engine wrote: ↑

December 4th, 2023, 6:02 pm

A: 0
Q: Computer in CGoL

A: Proven impossible by Ethan Hunt, Life is not turing complete.

Q: What is the taste and smell of cells in B35/S23?

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Just a question: If the Mikipedia pages are just irrelevant, can you just move them to a new wiki for this?

Dave Greene discovered a counter-example to popular belief, IceNine, a massive seed that grows very slowly, quadratically, and unstoppably. This is characteristic of a rule like Seeds or 34 Life, except IceNine requires a much larger critical mass (about 10 megapixels). Yes, this does grow irregula...

EDIT by dvgrn: I've moved this post and responses to it out of the Edit War Reporting Thread. That thread is meant for self-reporting new edit wars that have started up, not for long discussions of any particular issue. Those discussions should find their way onto some separate dedicated thread on ...

There is a error, where "10 of 170" dyks are shown, but only 161 of them are actually shown. Can an admin correct this? Are you sure that that's still a problem anywhere? I'm not seeing it. Ian07 made the relevant update four days ago. Only 161 dyks in https://conwaylife.com/wiki/LifeWiki:Did_you_k...

(3,0)c/10 is both fast and high period. There's nothing really special about it except that it's the simplified speed of the natural pi propagation. It's very unlikely to be found any time soon, and I think there would generally be less interest in this speed which further reduces its chances. Yes,...

Just curious, are we more likely to find a spaceship with speed:
c/8o,
c/9o,
c/9d,
3c/10o,
c/7k,
c/8c?

Protecting the T life page is a little overboard just to stop one or two editors, as it prevents more productive edits from taking place. I suggest giving a partial block (For only the t life page) to those that have caused the most chaos in the edit war, instead of protecting it and not allowing a...

There is a error, where "10 of 170" dyks are shown, but only 161 of them are actually shown. Can an admin correct this?

Protecting the T life page is a little overboard just to stop one or two editors, as it prevents more productive edits from taking place. I suggest giving a partial block (For only the t life page) to those that have caused the most chaos in the edit war, instead of protecting it and not allowing an...

hotdogPi wrote: ↑

November 27th, 2023, 8:28 am

Haycat2009 wrote: ↑

November 27th, 2023, 2:18 am

If cvojan had created the spam pages in their userspace, I would have ignored them.

You do realize those pages contained racial slurs, right?

Yes, but I would only have ignored those without.

I understand, but the userpage is one's castle. One can do anything they like as long as it does not spread out to the main page space. Things like spam, attacking content, high-activity editing are still detrimental, even if in userspace. Ultimately the wiki is a shared space with a specific scope...

Can you please tame B2a/S12 such in a way that lightspeed travel is still possible, but it does not explode?

No need. Most Users have no other place to create hooked or sus stuff. As long as it stays within the Userpage space, it is fine. Maybe it would be fine (but this comes from just another pseudorandom CA enthusiast and wiki editor), if only (a) it was significantly less active than it is recently, (...

So far, here and on Discord, there haven't been any claims that the Mikipedia pages are relevant to the LifeWiki in any way. The best argument is that " edits are fine if it’s just once in a while". But "once in a while" isn't a good description of the last several days of editing (before today). A...