Scientific American article on Life, written in 1970, by non other than Martin Gardner. The rules are all here as is an announcement for a contest to prove or disprove a conjecture that no pattern can grow without limit (to be judged by Conway himself - reward $50). Gold!
http://web.archive.org/web/20090603015231/http://ddi.cs.uni-potsdam.de/HyFISCH/Produzieren/lis_projekt/proj_gamelife/ConwayScientificAmerican.htm On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Josh Price <[email protected]> wrote: > Bring whatever you fancy working on. > > Cheers, > Josh > > > On 24/08/2011, at 10:56 AM, Tim McEwan <[email protected]> wrote: > > What languages/libraries are we likely to need? Guessing everyone already > has ruby/python/perl/php, but it might be an idea to install > node/coffeescript. > > I mention this mostly because installing Haskell takes ages… > > > On Friday, 19 August 2011 at 15:01, Josh Price wrote: > > Hack Night is on Wednesday 24th August and will be hosted by the kind folks > at The Project Factory (who'll also be shouting some food). > > The plan is to do a mini version of the code retreat, where we pair up and > tackle John Conway's Game of Life problem in several different ways > (attempting it using a language, tool or technique you haven't tried > before). > > Wednesday 24th August 2011 > 6pm til 10ish > > The Project Factory > Suite 305 > 50 Holt Street Surry Hills > > Call David Parry on 0413 191 438 if you can't get in. > > There's only room for 12 so sign up now over on the wiki: > > <https://github.com/rails-oceania/roro/wiki/rorosyd-hack-night> > https://github.com/rails-oceania/roro/wiki/rorosyd-hack-night > > See you there! > > Cheers, > Josh > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to <[email protected]> > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > <[email protected]> > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > <http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en> > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- m| 0422 574 196 e| [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
