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Re:Ask HN: What's your best implementation of Conway's Game ... by teekert on Thursday February 13, 2025 @03:59AM (#43034102)
This one is like looking the universe into its soul.

Btw, can the game of life (at least in theory) simulate chaotic systems like a double pendulum?

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Re:Ask HN: What's your best implementation of Conway's Game ... by AndrewOMartin on Thursday February 13, 2025 @04:52AM (#43034383)
It's Turing complete, it can simulate anything any other Turing equivalent machine (e.g. a PC) can.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your best implementation of Conway's Game ... by occamschainsaw on Thursday February 13, 2025 @04:55AM (#43034400)
Cellular automata in general can exhibit chaos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30

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