Elaborate jokes that will only be understood by like 5 people on the planet are the actual best
Mar 4, 2024 · 3:47 AM UTC
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@IsaacKing314 hmm, is it that niche? usually that's the main example people give to show you can create interesting things with automata
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@trickylabyrinth Simply knowing what the word "automata" means is probably like 5% of Americans at best.
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@IsaacKing314 the best bit is the attention to detail of having it wrap around to the top
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@sullyj3 I actually don't get that part; were old Game of Life clients toroidal or something? All the ones I've come across are just euclidian planes.
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@eigenbom I'm not the creator, I'm not sure who made this originally. And I still have yet to figure out why they made it a torus...
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@IsaacKing314 The “Blink” one should have been rotated 90 degrees in the second frame.
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@ben221199 Hmm, yeah. But then the glider would also have to be different in the third panel, which might make it harder to recognize.
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@IsaacKing314 everyone understands that. popular meme and game of life.
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@hejibits And yes, "5 people" was obviously an exaggeration. Conway's Game of Life is something that many programmers and other "mathy" people know, so a couple million people in total probably, but it's still quite niche overall. Ask a random person on the street and they'll have no idea.
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@IsaacKing314 @untitled01ipynb mmmh. Almost every actual & former CS student would get it, no ?
(nice one, btw !)
(nice one, btw !)
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@IsaacKing314 it's not that niche, I studied fucking sociology and they showed me this
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@UpadekP Oh, interesting. I expected programmers and other "mathy" people to be familiar, but why sociology?
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@IsaacKing314 "game of life" videos on youtube are done by every single pop science/pop algorithms channel to ever exist and have millions worth of views
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@hejibits And yes, "5 people" was obviously an exaggeration. Conway's Game of Life is something that many programmers and other "mathy" people know, so a couple million people in total probably, but it's still quite niche overall. Ask a random person on the street and they'll have no idea.
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@IsaacKing314 I know this exclusively because of a Minecraft mod that makes use of it for a very convoluted form of power generation
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@stupidGryphonje Oh that sounds interesting. What mod?
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@IsaacKing314 conway's game of life is one of the most well known automata out there what are you on about
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@IsaacKing314 The life game. I know it because of the powder game. One of the best free sandbox ever
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@zanadrium That game was great, I spent so much time on it. I still have no idea how "ant" actually works.
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@IsaacKing314 I'm kinda upset that the line didn't rotate between the first and second frames
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@ben221199 Hmm, yeah. But then the glider would also have to be different in the third panel, which might make it harder to recognize.
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