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Re:Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020? by alpaca128 on Friday December 25, 2020 @06:39PM (#25540050)
If you liked the Game of Life running a Game of Life simulation you might enjoy the YT video[0] showing someone's functioning raycasting engine within the game world of Factorio using thousands of machines and parts provided by the game. It blew my mind.

What I also found quite amusing was the PowerPoint presentation demonstrating the Turing-completeness of PowerPoint animations[1].

I'll never get tired of this kind of tinkering walking the line between genius and a healthy portion of crazy.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28UzqVz1r24

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8

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Re:Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020? by gregsadetsky on Friday December 25, 2020 @11:23PM (#25541357)
I would also very highly recommend you watch this talk about PowerPoint’s Turing-completeness — https://youtu.be/_3loq22TxSc

It’s from the same person (Tom Wildenhain) as your video, but this is an hour long, there’s an actual audience (that’s supportive and spends most of the talk in disbelief), and the end with recursive slides / fractals is an absolute mind melt.

Strong recommend! :) Thanks for the suggestions/reminder!

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Re:Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020? by fouronnes3 on Saturday December 26, 2020 @02:11AM (#25541949)
That's an idea for a talk. Crazy place where people have implemented computers. My personal favorite is the pokemon red implementation in minecraft.

https://youtu.be/H-U96W89Z90

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