culturedgoat

As a teenager in the 90s I had a Conway’s Game of Life program for MS-DOS, and it did provide some hours of fascination (I mean hey, if your computer is too crappy to run Quake 🤷🏼‍♂️). I enjoyed making big explodey patterns, but a thing I always found interesting is how even the most chaotic storms would ultimately settle down into stable structures (with a few stragglers - usually gliders - here and there leaving the party). Is there anything in the patterns or tendencies of the game that has been successfully applied as an allegory for human (or any biological organism) population behaviours, perhaps over a large time series? I mean, I guess the hint is in the name (Life) but I always wondered if there was any research bearing out direct parallels that could be drawn…

Thanks for the answer! That’s pretty fascinating. Will check out that paper 🤓

Is 臭豆腐 (stinky tofu) effective at keeping away vampires?

(It was certainly effective at keeping me away from the 臭豆腐 stand near my place when I lived in Beijing…)

• Not a vampire

Working just fine for me

Any close calls?

Or failing that, funny stories where a pilot leaves the radio open while bragging about some stewardess he railed?