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An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression

2018626 points179 comments Math & Algorithms details

Early this year a software engineer, Shaun Gilchrist, reached out to me after reading a blog post of mine from many years ago, about my informal search for hidden patterns in the prime numbers. The Ulam Spiral revealed non-random patterns, but they didn’t quite match up. Both Shaun and I had long felt there was […]

Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter

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This article is about a new kind of simple computational rule ("LACE rules" running on LACE, the Link Automata Computing Engine platform) which, when applied locally on a grid of cells, demonstrates fascinating emergent "artificial life" behavior.