s10e02 Cellular Automata – The Good Robot Andys

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A tech takeover this week with special guest Fran Buontempo talking about Cellular Automata – a cool techie toy for exploring the links between computation, complexity and life, or at the very least a sort-of interesting way of generating some moving patterns.

Those promised links:

• How to code your way out of a paper bag – Fran’s book on all kinds of AI stuff
• Cellular automaton on Wikipedia. Also check out Conway’s Game of Life.
• Cellular Automata at Stanford – very in-depth CA info
• Wolfram’s Cellular Automata page – nice diagrams of 1-d CAs
• Interactive Conway’s Game of Life – Andy B’s smolpxl game
• Crowd Your Way Out of a Paper Bag – video of Fran’s recent talk on this stuff

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