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A Conway 'Game of Life' Conjecture Settled After 29 years
In 1992 John Conway raised a question about the patterns in his famous mathematical Game of Life: "Is there a Godlike still-life, one that can only have existed for all time (apart from things that don't interfere with it)?" Conway closed his note by adding "Well, I'm going out to get a hot dog now..."
Ilkka Törmä and Ville Salo, a pair of researchers at the University of Turku in Finland, have found a finite configuration in Conway's Game of Life such that, if it occurs within a universe at time T, it must have existed in that same position at time T-1 (and therefore, by induction, at time 0)... The configuration was discovered by experimenting with finite patches of repeating 'agar' and using a SAT solver to check whether any of them possess this property.
Other Game of Life-related news:
- David Raucci discovered the first oscillator of period 38. Remaining unsolved periods are 19, 34, and 41.
- Darren Li has connected Charity Engine to Catagolue, providing approximately 2000 CPU cores of continuous effort and searching slightly more than 10^12 random initial configurations per day.
- Nathaniel Johnston and Dave Greene have published a book on Conway's Game of Life, featuring both the theoretical aspects & engineering that's been accomplished in the half-century since its conception.
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DNA is a fractal antenna in electromagnetic fields
Purpose: To review the responses of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to electromagnetic fields (EMF) in different frequency ranges, and characterise the properties of DNA as an antenna.
Materials and methods: We examined published reports of increased stress protein levels and DNA strand breaks due to EMF interactions, both of which are indicative of DNA damage. We also considered antenna properties such as electronic conduction within DNA and its compact structure in the nucleus.
Results: EMF interactions with DNA are similar over a range of non-ionising frequencies, i.e., extremely low frequency (ELF) and radio frequency (RF) ranges. There are similar effects in the ionising range, but the reactions are more complex.
Conclusions: The wide frequency range of interaction with EMF is the functional characteristic of a fractal antenna, and DNA appears to possess the two structural characteristics of fractal antennas, electronic conduction and self symmetry. These properties contribute to greater reactivity of DNA with EMF in the environment, and the DNA damage could account for increases in cancer epidemiology, as well as variations in the rate of chemical evolution in early geologic history.
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Flower of Life: Pattern that can be extended indefinitely
Shri Yantra: mystical diagram (yantra) used in the Shri Vidya school of Hinduism.
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The Matrix is falling apart. Meta-slaving people in recursive simulacra is a dead end. Wake up
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Wellsaid - "Convert text to voice in real time"
'Deep Fake' Technology Used to Perfectly Re-Create a Radio Announcer's Voice (reuters.com)
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Search is a creative process: Finding is equal to generating
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Jeffery Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell are computer generated virtual characters. Spot the clues
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Art Generated with "CLIP guided diffusion" - by @nshepperd1
Prompt: "mandala of time by greg rutkowski"
Prompt: "the eternity mirror by joshua kenney"
Prompt: "sigil of the witch of cyberpunk by greg rutkowski"
Prompt: "a rose tree resembling the threads of fate by greg rutkowski"
Prompt: "the gateway between dreams, trending on ArtStation" - by @RiversHaveWings
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It Began as an AI-Fueled Dungeon Game. It Got Much Darker (Wired) - "The game touted its use of the GPT-3 text generator. Then the algorithm started to generate disturbing stories, including sex scenes involving children."
#Comment: Trying to moderate a powerful generative system is a sisyphean task that inevitable will fail, but certainly will lead to more censorship of human speech and action. The only thing more stupid, is trying to apply intellectual property rights to the outputs of a generative system. These are not signs of strengthening artificial intelligence, but quickly degenerating human intelligence.
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Homo imaginatus (aeon) - "Imagination isn’t just a spillover from our problem-solving prowess. It might be the core of what human brains evolved to do."
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“Footless Deepfake President”: The matrix is falling apart fast.
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A Future Space Voyage, a psychedelic adventure through an alternate spacetime
