First, I thought "not so simple!"
But it's wonderfully grokkable compared to zooming in on equivalent hardware and watching transistor states unfold.
kimixa 181 days ago [-]
I think I see the opposite - a Game of Life logic gate is way harder to understand than just a symbol representing the logic itself. And I see most logic gate transistor implementations as much simpler and so easier.
mwcz 181 days ago [-]
I meant zooming in on the hardware very literally. Watching electrons in a transistor. Logic diagrams are naturally easier to understand than what they describe.
ninetyninenine 181 days ago [-]
Right but the motion of each signal is observable in the game of life version.
waltbosz 181 days ago [-]
It's a funny coincidence, the game of life computer reminded me of the human computer they built in the book "Three Body Problem", and your comment uses the term "grok" from the book "Stranger in a Strange Land", two scifi books I read recently.
mwcz 181 days ago [-]
Let's write an algorithm that ranks HN by number of oblique sci-fi book references!
TheOtherHobbes 181 days ago [-]
Conway would have loved this.
pron 181 days ago [-]
That's just beautiful!
dvrj101 181 days ago [-]
could not find what the stack he used for the site, it looks so good and readable. Anyone have any clue ?
fredley 181 days ago [-]
Fun challenge for AoC…
JKCalhoun 181 days ago [-]
Now if there were some custom FPGA that ran the life rules…
nokeya 181 days ago [-]
Now run DOOM on it
jason66 181 days ago [-]
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