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		jayturley on April 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Conway has died The Game of Life is responsible for getting me into computing back in the early 80s. Spent a summer implementing classifier systems at VA Tech in the 90s and never had so much fun. A great mind that will be greatly missed.

rzach on April 11, 2020 [–]

Cellular Automata got me into computing a few years ago - it's amazing how the Game of Life and other CA's are Turing Complete. So many people will miss him.

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