Comments on: Julian Lopez-Morillas. Bill Gosper and Golly. http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2006/02/03/julian-lopez-morillas-bill-gosper-and-golly/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:07:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Rudy http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2006/02/03/julian-lopez-morillas-bill-gosper-and-golly/#comment-13324 Rudy Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:02:11 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/wordpress/?p=124#comment-13324 1943, though I don't know the day. Check the short Wikipedia article about him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gosper If you want to write about him, you should talk to him directly. 1943, though I don’t know the day. Check the short Wikipedia article about him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gosper
If you want to write about him, you should talk to him directly.

]]> By: Eliana http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2006/02/03/julian-lopez-morillas-bill-gosper-and-golly/#comment-13317 Eliana Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:03:13 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/wordpress/?p=124#comment-13317 I don't know when Gosper was born. Do you tell me please? I want to publish his biography. I don’t know when Gosper was born. Do you tell me please?
I want to publish his biography.

]]> By: Julie Tower http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2006/02/03/julian-lopez-morillas-bill-gosper-and-golly/#comment-7355 Julie Tower Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:12:32 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/wordpress/?p=124#comment-7355 Hi, Rudy! I went to Classical High School with Julian ("When Julian runs, he lopes more or less"). Please pass along my email address to him, as I live in the Bay area and would like to get in touch. Actually, I also was at Swarthmore for a couple of years (class of '67). Cheers! Julie Hi, Rudy!

I went to Classical High School with Julian (”When Julian runs, he lopes more or less”). Please pass along my email address to him, as I live in the Bay area and would like to get in touch. Actually, I also was at Swarthmore for a couple of years (class of ‘67).

Cheers!

Julie

]]> By: Andrew Trevorrow http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2006/02/03/julian-lopez-morillas-bill-gosper-and-golly/#comment-6950 Andrew Trevorrow Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:24:32 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/wordpress/?p=124#comment-6950 Hi Rudy, I'm one of the "young guys" working on Golly (I've just turned 50 actually). Nice to see that folks like you and Bill Gosper are using Golly -- my motivation index just shot through the roof. :) Regards, Andrew Hi Rudy,
I’m one of the “young guys” working on Golly (I’ve just turned 50 actually).
Nice to see that folks like you and Bill Gosper are using Golly — my
motivation index just shot through the roof. :) Regards, Andrew

]]> By: Bill Gosper http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2006/02/03/julian-lopez-morillas-bill-gosper-and-golly/#comment-6949 Bill Gosper Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:37:17 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/wordpress/?p=124#comment-6949 Note that the GoLly patterns come with blurbs. Press 'i' to bring comments up after a pattern is loaded. As an example, here's my comment (24 Jun 2004 )on Hashing-Examples/totalperiodic *** Without the block, this is Gosper's "total aperiodic" pattern (Nov '97), in which every cell in the universe eventually becomes aperiodic. With the block, every cell eventually becomes periodic, but incredibly slowly. The block remains untouched for very roughly 3^63 generations. It deletes the nth glider (and is shifted) at about generation 3^(57.5+5.5n). *** Also Check out that Miscellaneous/fermat-primes ! Also blockish-and-blockic-seeds. Motivation for these is under "slow salvo" in the excellent Life lexicon under Help. Note that the GoLly patterns
come with blurbs. Press ‘i’ to bring comments up after a pattern is loaded.
As an example, here’s my comment (24 Jun 2004
)on Hashing-Examples/totalperiodic
***
Without the block, this is Gosper’s “total aperiodic” pattern (Nov ‘97), in which every cell in the universe eventually becomes aperiodic.
With the block, every cell eventually becomes periodic, but incredibly slowly. The block remains untouched for very roughly 3^63 generations. It deletes the nth glider (and is shifted) at about generation 3^(57.5+5.5n).
***
Also Check out that Miscellaneous/fermat-primes !
Also blockish-and-blockic-seeds. Motivation for these is under “slow salvo” in the excellent Life lexicon under Help.

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