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A Simple CPU on the Game of Life (2021)

mwcz

First, I thought "not so simple!" But it's wonderfully grokkable compared to zooming in on equivalent hardware and watching transistor states unfold.

kimixa

I think I see the opposite - a Game of Life logic gate is way harder to understand than just a symbol representing the logic itself. And I see most logic gate transistor implementations as much simpler and so easier.

pron

That's just beautiful!

JKCalhoun

Now if there were some custom FPGA that ran the life rules…

jason66

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