A Summoning Salt style video on omniperiocity in life?

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NimbleRogue
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A Summoning Salt style video on omniperiocity in life?

Post by NimbleRogue » May 22nd, 2024, 2:13 am

Think about it, would that not go so hard. Do people think it is a good idea? If people do I may make this one of my projects over the summer. . Why I think Omniperiodicity in life would be so good for this style, is it has a rich 50 year+ story baked into it, with a goal that was always there. Even though patterns are random, big leaps in the number of oscillators were because of new programs. There was a dead period for new periods with p23 bring the new wave of oscillators. I could Imagine saying "So, was this it? Were some periods impossible to achive?" as a moment of tension. There also is a comunities hopes and dreams baked into it. Think about hearing, "and then, on 7/13/23 an ordinary day to the rest of the wold. mvr's Catforce outputed somthing astonishing; a p19 oscillator." with this in the background https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9zuIoJ ... ynthMaster I know there is already a great paper on it, but this video format could bring people to the community https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.02799

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Re: A Summoning Salt style video on omniperiocity in life?

Post by confocaloid » October 11th, 2024, 11:57 am

NimbleRogue wrote:
May 22nd, 2024, 2:13 am
[...] I know there is already a great paper on it, but this video format could bring people to the community https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.02799
The idea looks interesting.
I would suggest to aim for deeper understanding. (Successfully explaining a topic to one person is better than failing to explain to dozens or hundreds at once.)
A video helping people to understand some topic (such as omniperiodicity), or helping to understand what CGoL/CA is all about, could be interesting.

However, I think "bring people to the community" is not a very good aim in itself. More people is not necessarily better.
E.g. probably you wouldn't want to invite people who are too lazy to even attempt to understand things, but instead would just chat about tangentially related or unrelated topics.
(This is already a problem, with newcomers often missing the ideas, and getting stuck in the "pointless chat" mode.)
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July 10th, 2024, 9:09 pm
Making a post in a thread: First of all it is important to note that this is an academic forum, not a chat or microblogging platform if you want a place for looser conversation. If you want to make more random posts, please do so in the Sandbox thread. In all other threads what this means is you should keep conversations relevant, productive, and "of interest to the community"
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When making a thread it is important to think, does what I am posting about have enough meat for other people to discuss? If it does not then it is better to not make a thread about. For example although the P41 in CGoL is incredibly cool, it would not be a good thing to make a thread about because there is no place for further discussion
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