Activity for Charles Staatsâ€
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How to tell if intelligent life has evolved in a Game of Life simulation? A civilization has a "magic" computer with memory and processing capacities far beyond what our physics says is possible. They decide to run a massive simulation of Conway's Game of Life with a random "big bang" initial state. The goal is to see if, given enough simulated time steps and a large enoug... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |