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user-inactivated  ·  3306 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Epic Conway's Game of Life

    He hates the game because he considers it trivial, he's done much more important work, and it's all most people know of his work is this game.

That's a shame. It and boids got a lot of people in computing thinking about emergence and self-organization. Distributed algorithms, graphics and optimization in particular owe him a lot. Good toys are important.