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🔍 Game of Life
Entdeckt das faszinierende „Game of Life“! Aus einfachen Regeln entstehen komplexe Muster. Probiert die interaktive Simulation selbst aus und lasst Strukturen entstehen!
⏲ Uhrzeit: 17:00-24:00 Uhr
🗓️ Datum: 21.06.2025
🧑‍🔬 Veranstalter: Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation
📍 Veranstaltungsort: @…

Question for y'all #SystemicGames¹ folks who like multiplayer/#coop games:
How do you logistically manage actually having a co-op, multiplayer playthrough of a complex video-game in your life?
I've always struggled, hard, with satisfying my needs here; not only is it so hard to find people who 1. like complex games, 2. like multiplayer/social gaming, and 3. have time/s…

playing prague | Prague City Tourism - https://prague.eu/en/playing-prague/?utm_source=charlesgames.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsl…

playing prague | Prague City Tourism
Playing Prague is a game celebrating Prague and all those who have shaped and continue to shape this beautiful city. Every detail of the game is a tribute to the 1000-year cultural heritage of a city that was once the seat of the Holy Roman Emperors and the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom. It is also the origin of the designation of bohemians as people with a creative and unconventional way of life. Become a Bohemian for a while and build your own Prague.

It’s the hard-knock life in #Sonoma’s wine country.

Nintendo Switch 2 review: great build quality, better haptics, and improved performance for Switch 1 games, but weak battery life and only a few launch titles (The Shortcut)
https://www.theshortcut.com/p/nintendo-switch-2-review

Nintendo Switch 2 review: bigger, faster, and the best handheld since Game Boy
Our full review and 30+ photos of The Shortcut team testing the Nintendo Switch 2 for a week

The nicest quality of life I learned yesterday: put these lines into /etc/profile.d/fsr4.sh so you don't have to muck about with them in every game and launcher
export DXIL_SPIRV_CONFIG=wmma_rdna3_workaround
export PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1

Honestly, I want to be remembered as an anarcho-syndicalist who really cared about building solidarity and living a simpler, more meaningful life.
Not just some random three-year-old autistic gamer who spends way too many hours glued to the same video game.
Like, there’s more to me than that, you know?
#Anarchism

Brian Schottenheimer on first game as a head coach, areas to improve https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-on-first-game-as-a-head-coach-areas-to-improve

"And quite an adventure the life of Margittai Neumann Janos Lajos was. A child prodigy, he published his first paper in mathematics before age 20. He was the indisputable champion of applied mathematics in the 20th century. His work yielded groundbreaking advances in theoretical mathematics, quantum mechanics, game theory, economics, fluid dynamics, artificial intelligence, electrodynamics, meteorology, and computing."

William Aspray
There was a moment in which Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann were all roaming the halls of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton at the same time. Let that information sink in. Humanity experiences such gatherings of brilliant minds in a remote location of the space-time continuum only every so often; maybe the ancient Greeks and the men of the Renaissance witnessed such periods in time, as did the IAS staff at the end of World War II. How much will we have to wait f…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07189 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@…

Scale-invariant dynamics in a purely deterministic Game of Life model
Scale invariance is a key feature that characterizes criticality in complex dynamical systems, which often organize into structures exhibiting no typical size and/or lifespan. While random external inputs or tunable stochastic interactions are typically required for showcasing such criticality, the question of whether scale-invariant dynamics can emerge from purely deterministic interactions remains unclear. In this work, we discover highly affirmative signatures of critical dynamics in equal-s…

Brian Schottenheimer on first game as a head coach, areas to improve https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-on-first-game-as-a-head-coach-areas-to-improve

Wild looking game 'Time Flies' coming to PC & consoles later this month. You experience the life of a fly and can do all kinds of things.
The game's website is pretty cool: https://timeflies.buzz
And here's the trailer:

Time Flies – A game about our limited time in this world.
Coming July 31st to PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and computers. A game by Michael Frei and Raphaël Munoz, produced by Playables.

For a moment last week, Donald Trump’s Justice Department appeared to throw a metaphorical life vest to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s public relations team.
As search and rescue operations continued, the Republican governor was under fire for suggesting that
survivors and the media were using the “word choice of losers”
when asking him who was to blame for the state’s handling of the flash flood that claimed at least 134 lives over the July 4 weekend.
Abbott also compared…

Texas Plays Cynical Racial Gerrymandering Game to Save House Majority for Trump
Trump’s Justice Department gave political cover for Gov. Greg Abbott to mingle gerrymandering with disaster relief.

Wanna Feel Old? The Vans #WarpedTour is 30...
What Other #PunkRock Tour Admits It's Age And Sets Up Its Own Museum?
Kevin Lyman's Tour That First Tried To Bring #Sublime To America Returns To The

Essential metrics for Life on graphs
Michiel Rollier, Lucas Caldeira de Oliveira, Odemir M. Bruno, Jan M. Baetens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21226 https://…

Essential metrics for Life on graphs
We present a strong theoretical foundation that frames a well-defined family of outer-totalistic network automaton models as a topological generalisation of binary outer-totalistic cellular automata, of which the Game of Life is one notable particular case. These "Life-like network automata" are quantitatively described by expressing their genotype (the mean field curve and Derrida curve) and phenotype (the evolution of the state and defect averages). After demonstrating that the genotype and p…

Watched the first 45 minutes of the Gran Turismo movie on Netflix. If you imagined it mostly consisted of people dramatically delivering variations on "this is real life, this is not a game", you would be correct.

TSMC's logo is pretty dope

The Glider Equation for Asymptotic Lenia
Hiroki Kojima, Ivan Yevenko, Takashi Ikegami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04167 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04167

The Glider Equation for Asymptotic Lenia
Lenia is a continuous extension of Conway's Game of Life that exhibits rich pattern formations including self-propelling structures called gliders. In this paper, we focus on Asymptotic Lenia, a variant formulated as partial differential equations. By utilizing this mathematical formulation, we analytically derive the conditions for glider patterns, which we term the ``Glider Equation.'' We demonstrate that by using this equation as a loss function, gradient descent methods can successfully dis…