Hacker News with Generative AI: Cellular Automata

Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata (google-research.github.io)
Imagine trying to reverse-engineer the complex, often unexpected patterns and behaviors that emerge from simple rules. This challenge has inspired researchers and enthusiasts that work with cellular automata for decades. In cellular automata, we generally approach things from the bottom-up. We choose local rules, then investigate the resulting emergent patterns.

Generative AI, Cellular Automata, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

448 points by eyvindn 2 days ago | 89 comments

computronium – differentiable learning of stateful binary circuits (google-research.github.io)
Imagine trying to reverse-engineer the complex, often unexpected patterns and behaviors that emerge from simple rules. This challenge has inspired researchers and enthusiasts that work with cellular automata for decades. In cellular automata, we generally approach things from the bottom-up. We choose local rules, then investigate the resulting emergent patterns.

Machine Learning, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cellular Automata

29 points by eyvindn 2 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Kartoffels – Cellular Automata, Statistics, 32-bit RISC-V (pwy.io)
Today I've released v0.7, which spans 122 commits and brings:

Cellular Automata, Statistics, RISC-V, Open Source

58 points by Patryk27 19 days ago | 3 comments

Bitbanging 1D Reversible Automata (richiejp.com)
I created a demo for the GFXPrim library. It implements and displays a nearest-neighbor, one-dimensional, binary cell automata. Additionally it implements a reversible automata, which is almost identical except for a small change to make it reversible. The automata is displayed over time in two dimensions, time travels from top to bottom. Although in the reversible case time could be played backwards.

Computer Graphics, Cellular Automata, Programming, Reversible Computation

97 points by richiejp 86 days ago | 22 comments

Autopoietic Networks (gbragafibra.github.io)
A type of cellular automaton with the intent of simulating autopoiesis in an emergent manner, with a simple scaling rule and with each unit having binary state attribution and a corresponding gate associated to it.

Cellular Automata, Artificial Life, Simulation, Computer Science

52 points by Fibra 107 days ago | 13 comments

Solving mazes with neural cellular automata (2021) (umu1729.github.io)
Interactive demonstration of Neural Cellular Maze Solver. This cellular automaton is trained to output the shortest path between the two endpoints. You can interactively edit the maze input by clicking or tapping with selected maze cell types (Wall, Road, Endpoint). The state of each cell is stochastically updated depending on the state of each cell and the four-surrounding cells.

Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, Mazes, Computer Science

37 points by lnyan 155 days ago | 5 comments

Nestedly Recursive Functions (stephenwolfram.com)
Integers. Addition. Subtraction. Maybe multiplication. Surely that’s not enough to be able to generate any serious complexity. In the early 1980s I had made the very surprising discovery that very simple programs based on cellular automata could generate great complexity. But how widespread was this phenomenon?

Mathematics, Programming, Cellular Automata

4 points by bananaflag 162 days ago | 0 comments

3D Cellular Automata (williamyang98.github.io)

3D, Cellular Automata

24 points by diginova 206 days ago | 3 comments

Mobiumata (a concatenation of Möbius strip and cellular automata) (scottlogic.com)

Mathematics, Computer Science, Cellular Automata, Möbius Strip

3 points by chrisprice 218 days ago | 0 comments

Any Game of Life pattern can be constructed from just 15 gliders (2022) (biggieblog.com)

Programming, Mathematics, Cellular Automata

47 points by fanf2 249 days ago | 11 comments

Cirkoban: Sokoban meets cellular automata written in Scheme (spritely.institute)