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Amazing!
I did some work with thermotropic liquid crystals back in school and sat for hours capturing images of LCs changing phase. Nothing as beautiful as here, but they really are mesmerizing.
Super interesting read! Thanks for sharing.
I’d be interested to see how impactful a sparse representation would be. It’s an optimization I know to have been useful from trying it on AoC and similar cellular automata problems, but I have no clue how it would mesh with the other optimizations made here. I would guess its effectiveness would also rely heavily on the particular ruleset you were simulating, as well as your starting state.
Amazing as always!
As for regulations around personal logs, Star Trek has a long and confusing history with how it deals with privacy. I swear we’ve seen personal logs pulled up numerous times before (that one episode in TNG with Geordi and that woman’s dog?), including “Crisis Point” as mentioned.
Given that, I’d take it that Starfleet’s rules regarding personal logs are primarily focused on their admissibility in court, rather than general accessibility.
Thanks for sharing this! Very cool to see the work that goes into a proposal, especially knowing that it has paid off.
From my uninformed perspective, this seems like an easy approval (no doubt due to your convincing proposal), but I’m curious if you were confident it would be accepted when you proposed it? I have no idea how stringent the acceptance process might be.
Not to be a jerk, but the image used there is a pretty bad example of the Cool S. It shouldn’t have horizontal ends, and should instead use diagonal lines to connect back to the middle.
Not that there’s exactly one Cool S, but this does not look like the most common or recognizable variant.
Wonderful to see you here, USSBurritoTruck! These posts are amazing as always! That catch about a possible Roger Korby connection is fantastic, and with all the focus they’ve put on Chapel’s relationship with Spock, I wouldn’t be surprised to see that come into play.