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I struggled with the Game of Life too. I was fascinated by it and evolved cell populations on graph paper by hand (yeah, I'm that old). When I've got a computer, I checked my drawings and all of them were wrong.



Reminds me of Knuth's dragon mosaic, which also contains a mistake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v678Em6qyzk


Really fun & informative interview, thanks for linking!


I used to do this as a kid on long car trips. I would play GoL on paper. It's a good way to eat up time enjoyably.




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