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... not trying to "restrict" anyone's personally preferred use of the word "signal". In discussions, people can use whatever wording they prefer. Your ... fact have a clear definition -- "an active object moving through signal circuitry" -- and is therefore not particularly ill-defined. It's in common ...

That implies known input signals (that can be produced by some other known elementary conduit that can actually ... the term is appropriate -- as a shorthand for "active object moving through signal circuitry", and in line with uses like " p6 signal source and sink " as well as everything ...

... B3/S is such a rule? It doesn't seem possible to design phoenix-based circuitry capable of carrying signals of any kind. Be careful that the circutry does not even have to be reusable - two examples ...

... that happen to contain X. Also I think this could be made to exclude signal circuitry oscs as well.) 3. Is the component after the perturbation different from X without ...

... supposed to carry some information". The definition and common usage of signal requires only a moving active object. The ambiguity you mention is ... common usage of "signal" to mean "active object moving through signal circuitry". I think that that small change would solve the problem much more ...

... removing what I consider to be valid and appropriate uses of the word "signal" from other people's LifeWiki edits. In this case, you replaced " ... the active object in question is moving through some kind of signal circuitry. If "signal" is used (e.g. on LifeWiki) to mean "active object ...

... and it occurred to me that there's one real-world sense of the word "signal" that seems like a particularly good match for the p128 oscillator ... mentioned above. To me at least, those "power towers" are not signal circuitry. They carry power, not signals. A question on electronics.stackexchange.com: ...

I prefer "signal" because it's shorter and clearer than "active object". It indicates unequivocally that the active object in question is moving through some kind of signal circuitry. If "signal" is used (e.g. on LifeWiki) to mean "active object moving through a circuit" ...

I think "signal" is more vague than "object". "Object" in these cases will almost certainly refer ... unequivocally that the active object in question is moving through some kind of signal circuitry. I'm not in the least disturbed by the fact that "signal" can mean multiple things. ...

... could apply to a lot of things that do not and cannot travel through signal circuitry. Pretty much every use of "signal" that you want to correct really does mean something ...

Both edits replaced "signal" with "object". The word "object" is not longer than "signal", and (I think) more ... that could apply to a lot of things that do not and cannot travel through signal circuitry. Pretty much every use of "signal" that you want to correct really does mean ...

... edits to Dove and I-heptomino . These were both uses of the term "signal" by a member of the community who hasn't yet expressed an opinion ... Lexicon , as a general term for any active object moving through signal circuitry. As such, they could be considered to be evidence that this sense ...

... would be to maybe add a sentence or two to the definition of "signal", to clarify that a commonly understood meaning of "signal" is "active object moving through circuitry" (or something along those lines). With that addition, I personally think all ...

[proposed removal of most uses of the term "signal" from "track" and "elementary conduit" Life Lexicon entries] I'm not sure ... a commonly understood meaning of "signal" is "active object moving through circuitry" (or something along those lines). With that addition, I personally think ...

Allowing periodic circuit to be called "signal circuits" makes the line between oscillators and circuits too blurry, to the ... devilish argument could convince me, against my will, that I see "signal circuitry" here (everyone is gullible). I think that would constitute loss of understanding ...

Allowing periodic circuit to be called "signal circuits" makes the line between oscillators and circuits too blurry, to the ... are certainly sometimes included as catalysts, in what I would call "signal circuitry". A blinker by itself doesn't constitute either a signal or a signal circuit, ...

... these might be interesting to us nonetheless. I do not like the term "signal stream", and "signal circuitry", as having definitions naively implied from the definition selected for "signal" ...

Haycat2009 wrote: ↑

July 16th, 2023, 2:05 am

What, what is considered flipping? (Honestly I have no clue on what is considered flipping, up-down or left-right?)

180 degree rotation. You can see examples of "B" vs. "Bx" in the current Patterns/Life/Signal-Circuitry/h-to-h-collection stamp collection.

You seem to be really stuck on trying to make the usage of "signal" on the LifeWiki match this definition that you've gotten from elsewhere ... object can be either present or absent with no catastrophic effects on the circuitry. You're misrepresenting my position. Sorry if so. I'm doing my best ...

Here you've linked to a dictionary definition of "signal", not the LifeWiki's definition. That's intentional. I understand that ... object can be either present or absent with no catastrophic effects on the circuitry. You're misrepresenting my position. The current definition of "signal" ...

... viewpoint, it's obvious that dependent reflectors don't transmit signals . A dependent reflector is not "signal circuitry" in any helpful way. You keep on making these confident pronouncements about what ...

... Signals may either be present or absent from any given chunk of circuitry -- even identical pieces of circuitry -- depending on the behavior ... parts of the pattern. The glider stream from a periodic gun is never a signal stream, regardless of surrounding context. The same holds for a dependent ...

My understanding is that the word "signal" is ambiguous, and this existing ambiguity should be documented in LifeWiki. ... "signal" in my preferred sense, since the early 2000s when I added the "Signal-Circuitry" folder to Golly's pattern collection. Nobody has ever mentioned that they ...

... It reached that location from the western dependent reflector's output signal stream, only because a previous glider in that reflector's input signal ... avoid the use of my standard words for signals passing through signal circuitry, for the reason that they're "more confusing" than some alternative. ...

... come flying in from somewhere else. In the following, I'll be using "signal" in the same sense that I've been using "signal" whenever I've talked about signal circuitry for the last two decades or so. There shouldn't be any need to object to every ...