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- February 26th, 2019, 1:46 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: apgsearch v4.0
- Replies: 525
- Views: 272842
Re: apgsearch v4.0
Verifications are done sequentially, not in parallel. As such, if you have many cores, they'd be under-utilised if verifications were enabled by default. (You can enable this by setting -v 5 in the command-line arguments.) I've found that verifications are so quick that the idle cores aren't worth ...
- February 26th, 2019, 1:22 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: apgsearch v4.0
- Replies: 525
- Views: 272842
Re: apgsearch v4.0
stupid question: How do you end a search prematurely? If you're using Cygwin or you're on Linux or Mac (anything POSIX, apparently), then type "q" and wait some number of seconds. Your partial haul will be submitted and the search will exit gracefully. As 77topaz mentioned, there are cases where th...
- February 24th, 2019, 1:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: apgsearch v4.0
- Replies: 525
- Views: 272842
Re: apgsearch v4.0
// Disable verification by default if running on a HPC; // otherwise verify three hauls per uploaded haul: if (verifications < 0) { verifications = (parallelisation <= 4) ? 5 : 0; } Why have this? Why shouldn't high-performance computers do verifications? With the increase in CPU cores these days m...
- January 31st, 2019, 3:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Soup-searching as a video game (ethicacha/apgacha)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9864
Re: Soup-searching as a video game (ethicacha/apgacha)
You can really lower the barrier to entry for non-mobile (i.e. computer) players by making it a browser game . The soup search could also run in the browser by compiling it to a WebAssembly target. It appears that Webassembly has the necessary instructions to handle 64-bit Lifelib (yes, it's not 256...
- January 31st, 2019, 1:40 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: apgsearch v4.0
- Replies: 525
- Views: 272842
Re: apgsearch v4.0
Should I switch to v4? V4 is faster now than it was a year ago… Indeed it is! The results below are observed from running the two different versions on my Haswell i7-4790K (4C/8T) at stock clockspeed with 8 threads using log file timestamp values when the system was otherwise idle. OS is Ubuntu 18....
- January 20th, 2019, 12:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: apgsearch v4.0
- Replies: 525
- Views: 272842
Re: apgsearch v4.0
Should I switch to v4?
I recently started running my apgmera install again and I see very few people are running v3.28. Should I upgrade to v4.0? Is the new version faster or more correct? When I asked this question about a year ago, the answer was that there wasn't a compelling reason to upgrade.
I recently started running my apgmera install again and I see very few people are running v3.28. Should I upgrade to v4.0? Is the new version faster or more correct? When I asked this question about a year ago, the answer was that there wasn't a compelling reason to upgrade.
- January 20th, 2019, 12:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Catagolue Discussion Thread
- Replies: 541
- Views: 234568
Re: Catagolue Discussion Thread
What do the colors signify in the root column on the haul pages?
- January 26th, 2018, 5:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: apgsearch v4.0
- Replies: 525
- Views: 272842
Re: apgsearch v4.0
I recently started running apgmera v3.28 again after many months idle. It's generally running with 2-8 threads depending on what else I'm doing.
For b3s23/C1 is there an advantage to running v4? Is it faster or better?
For b3s23/C1 is there an advantage to running v4? Is it faster or better?
- January 19th, 2018, 11:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Catagolue Discussion Thread
- Replies: 541
- Views: 234568
Re: Catagolue Discussion Thread
I've seen red, green, and blue hauls. What do the colors mean?muzik wrote:Is it just me or are blue hauls in Life no longer a thing?
- May 20th, 2016, 2:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: which 64-bit Linux is best for Golly?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7978
Re: which 64-bit Linux is best for Golly?
Running Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS here, but will be updating to Ubuntu 16.04 at some point.
- March 9th, 2016, 11:46 pm
- Forum: Website Discussion
- Topic: c/10 spaceship beat Gemini's record
- Replies: 21
- Views: 18517
Re: c/10 spaceship beat Gemini's record
Yes, it got at least as high as number 8 on the front page of Hacker News. HN drives traffic the way Slashdot used to.dvgrn wrote:Interesting! Did a news item about the copperhead spaceship show up somewhere very popular, just recently?
Direct link to HN discussion.
- December 14th, 2011, 1:04 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Zone of Influence
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11912
Re: Zone of Influence
Zone of Influence is useful when constructing stable aggregations of smaller stable components, like during a search for stable reflectors. The ZOI of the aggregation is calculated as the union of the ZOI of each cell in the component patterns. I conducted for several months last year a search for s...
- December 22nd, 2010, 2:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Reaction types and terminology
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3606
Re: Reaction types and terminology
Yes, the block keeper and blinker keeper reactions fall into this category. There are several examples of each, and even a variable-period gun based on the blinker keeper. Ahh, thanks. I found the writeup on the blinker keeper, but nothing about the block keeper. What about every reaction that thro...
- December 20th, 2010, 11:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Reaction types and terminology
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3606
Reaction types and terminology
[Edited Dec. 22 for spark reaction.] I was wondering about the terminology used for different types of reactions between an active region and a still life. It seems that there are two axes, each with two possibilities: +---------------+---------------+--------------------+ | Modifies | Object | Obje...
- November 14th, 2010, 2:19 pm
- Forum: Other Cellular Automata
- Topic: 3458/37/4
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14690
Re: 3458/37/4
I like the little eye-catching P8 oscillator that's part of it:ynotds wrote:A p250 switch engine which moves (2,2) per cycle
Code: Select all
x = 3, y = 3, rule = 3458/37/4
.C$B2A$3A!
- October 14th, 2010, 12:04 pm
- Forum: Other Cellular Automata
- Topic: Wired blog article about Minecraft
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5123
Wired blog article about Minecraft
On Gadget Lab, one of the Wired blogs:
Geeky Gamers Build Working Computers out of Virtual Blocks
There you go, Ajax!
Geeky Gamers Build Working Computers out of Virtual Blocks
There you go, Ajax!
- October 13th, 2010, 7:42 pm
- Forum: Website Discussion
- Topic: Updating the main applet
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12070
Re: Updating the main applet
I suggest having the index page link to the forums, wiki, applet, and possibly soup page. Yes, the front page should have links to the rest of the great content here, and a very brief intro to Life. My suggestions: Put the main applet on a separate page. It sounds like coding it in Javascript would...
- October 4th, 2010, 10:55 am
- Forum: Website Discussion
- Topic: How to paste code
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13222
Select All corrupts RLE in Firefox
Confirming the report from Ajax that "Select All" on Firefox adds leading spaces to the copied RLE text which then does not correctly paste into Golly. I patched my version of Golly to remove the spaces, but that's not practical for most users. If the Firefox addon Copy Plain Text hadn't been abando...
- September 12th, 2010, 9:21 pm
- Forum: Patterns
- Topic: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries
- Replies: 2053
- Views: 1416590
Re: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries
It's a shame that soups like this from Andrzej Okrasinski's census were never made public (apart from the P2 Lightbulb); Several rare oscillators like Tim Coe's P8 and the P5 Fumarole occurred naturally, and the soups might have led to improved glider syntheses. He did release a results document on...
- August 31st, 2010, 2:16 am
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: Speed optimization, automation of golly perl scripts
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4977
Speed optimization, automation of golly perl scripts
I'm guessing your script has lots of g_run() calls mixed up with lots of editing calls? Exactly. If so, put a g_new() call at the start of your script -- that will prevent lots of temporary files being created and the script will run faster. This solution assumes your script is creating a pattern r...
- August 29th, 2010, 2:44 pm
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: Speed optimization, automation of golly perl scripts
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4977
Speed optimization, automation of golly perl scripts
Is there a way to manipulate Golly's Undo/Redo setting from a Perl script? In Golly 2.1, some scripts can generate GiBs of undo info, eating disk space and slowing down the script. I've just written such a script. It would be useful to be able to save the state and disable Undo at the start of the s...