VincentYu

This is the supposedly-bimonthly-but-we-keep-skipping 'What are you working On?' thread. Previous threads are here. So here's the question: What are you working on? Here are some guidelines: * Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started. * Why...

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http://blog.regehr.org/archives/546 John Regehr, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Utah, writes about two algorithmic optimizations for Conway's Game of Life, and speculates on the implications for self-aware entities in simulations. > Hashlife is a clever optimization that treats the Life grid as a hierarchy of quadtrees....