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    Wry

    wry.me · Personal blog · on HN since 2009

    Darius Bacon's site of programming toys and essays, including Turing Drawings, Bytebeat, and a hacker's introduction to partial evaluation.

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    What HN says

    HN links it for the Turing Drawings cellular automaton demo, where commenters share favorite patterns and praise it as a cool project.

    Stats for nerds
    78HN people shared it
    12linked in comments
    250story points
    Feb 2020last shared
    2013people per year2020

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Turing Drawings
      70 people · 166 points · first shared 2013 · 119 comments on HN
    2. 2
      A Hacker's Introduction to Partial Evaluation (2002)
      6 people · 83 points · first shared 2009 · 1 comments on HN
    3. 3
      Interactive palindrome maker
      1 person · 1 points · first shared 2011 · Discussion on HN
    4. 4
      Sonnetron
      2 people · first shared 2012
    5. 5
      Irrationaltriangle
      1 person · first shared 2013
    6. 6
      Examples
      1 person · first shared 2018
    7. 7
      Canvas asm
      1 person · first shared 2013
    8. 8
      Words words words
      1 person · first shared 2011
    9. 9
      Bytebeat
      1 person · first shared 2012
    10. 10
      Bytebeat
      1 person · first shared 2019

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • kragenFeb 2020

      I fed four popular song names from 2019 to GPT-2, and it suggested some other song titles in the same genre. A few of them already exist:

      B2B, by X Ambassadors (feat. MØ, Alex Clare, Lido, FUSE) .

      Saturday Night, by Dot Genesis.

      Saturday Night, by Above & Beyond.

      Thanks for the Wrecking Ball, by Black Moon.

      Best Regards, by Florence + The Machine.

      "Fuck You All," by RBE.

      Birthday Love, by Notoriously Morbid.

      Welcome to the jungle, by Rogue (feat. Mosca).

      Nobody and Nobody, by

      Stunna (feat. Q-Tip).

      Feels Like Summer, by Public Enemy (feat. Public Enemy).

      Critical, by Mobb Deep (feat. X-Clan).

      Electric, by Josh Wink.

      Down, by Aaliyah.

      Hip Hop 4 Life, by Quad City DJ's.

      Post-9/11, by The Notorious B.I.G.

      The Oneness, by 99 Problems (feat. AK-47).

      Where Are Ü Now, by Too

      All These Things That I've Done, by The 1975.

      Triple Poison, by Weezer (feat. Weezer/Beck).

      Lionheart, by Usher.

      In time, we've come so far

      I feel like this approach ought to work well for generating names. Also, lyrics:

      Pull me up like you be makin' an '80s comeback

      The devil, he stole your soul and he's back like it ain't no fuckin' thing

      I'ma turn you on my side with another trend, boom

      Heard they wanted to make a video and they could only get me

      When they heard I could do and write and everything was under control

      Hey, you could say, just listen to this hit I made

      Twist the straw, pull the switch and wrap this napkin around it

      All I hear is "ice-nine"

      It takes a 'dub to make…

    • ggchappellMay 2013

      Lovely.

      My findings:

      Here is one with a curious counter-clockwise rotation phenomenon:

      http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#6,5,5,2,0,2,1,0,4,4,2,3,4,1,0,3,2,3,3,0,0,1,2,3,1,0,5,2,2,0,4,0,4,4,3,5,2,3,1,4,0,5,2,0,4,3,2,4,1,2,4,1,1,3,3,0,4,2,0,5,1,2,0,4,1,3,3,1,0,1,3,5,3,0,3,1,2,1,4,3,0,1,3,1,1,3,0,4,0,4,3,0

      And a few that take a long time to stabilize and do some interesting things in the meantime:

      http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#3,5,2,4,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,3,0,0,3,3,0,1,2,2,2,1,0,4,3,0,1,2,2,1,0,1,4,3,1,3,3,0,4,1,0,4,3,1,2,1

      http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,2,1,2,1,3,2,0,3,1,2,3,1,1,0,1,2,0,1,1,1,2,0,3,1,3,3,2,0,1,1,3,3,1,3

      http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#3,6,1,3,3,2,1,0,0,2,1,0,5,2,2,4,0,1,3,2,0,3,1,1,5,1,2,5,0,1,4,2,2,4,3,0,4,1,2,1,0,0,5,2,0,1,2,0,2,1,2,1,0,1,4,3

    • JimJamesMay 2013

      I got something like the Sierpinski triangles too : http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,24,1,6,1,0,17,1,1,19,1,0,9,1,1,5,0,0,4,2,1,23,2,1,19,2,0,4,0,1,11,0,1,23,0,0,8,2,1,20,2,1,22,3,0,21,1,0,10,2,0,1,1,0,8,2,1,16,3,1,16,0,1,10,2,0,18,3,1,4,2,0,3,1,0,16,2,0,4,2,0,2,3,1,7,2,1,22,1,0,4,2,0,5,0,0,11,1,1,7,0,0,8,0,1,1,0,0,22,1,0,10,2,1,15,3,1,3,0,0,23,0,1,8,0,0,11,3,0,17,1,1,16,1,0,13,2,0,7,1,0,7,0,1,1,1

      even closer : http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,23,1,2,2,0,19,3,0,18,2,1,19,1,0,14,3,0,10,0,1,5,1,0,2,3,0,14,0,0,3,0,0,3,1,1,21,1,1,22,0,0,4,2,0,20,3,0,17,2,0,7,0,1,16,1,1,16,0,1,9,0,1,21,0,1,3,3,0,17,1,1,5,1,1,3,1,0,1,0,0,17,0,0,19,0,1,8,0,1,4,0,1,19,3,0,6,0,1,12,2,1,9,0,1,9,1,0,10,1,0,6,3,1,6,1,1,4,0,1,14,0,0,8,2,0,21,3,1,21,1,0,8,3,1,12,2,1,8,2

    • a-nikolaevNov 2013

      This machine is interesting. It does not look periodic, fractal-like patterns are slowly changing with time:
      http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,4,1,2,2,2,2,1,1,3,3,3,2,2,1,2,3,0,3,2,4,1,3,1,1,3,0,1,0,1,3,3,0,2,2,4,2,3,0,2,2,4,3,2,1,1,2,0,1,1,2,1,1,4,1,1,2,1,0,1,3,0

      A related machine, but eventually diverge to static:
      http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,4,3,2,0,2,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,2,3,3,2,0,3,2,4,1,3,1,1,3,0,1,0,2,2,2,3,2,0,0,3,1,0,2,2,3,1,0,3,2,2,0,1,1,4,1,3,4,2,1,2,1,0,4,1,0

      Update. One more: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,4,3,2,0,1,1,2,2,1,2,1,2,2,4,2,2,0,3,2,4,1,3,1,1,3,0,1,0,2,2,2,3,2,0,0,3,1,0,2,2,3,1,0,3,2,2,0,1,1,4,1,3,4,2,1,0,2,2,4,1,0

    • polemicMay 2013

      This is amazing. My favourites seem to always have only 2 states.

      "sunset and nightfall":

      http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,15,0,3,1,1,1,3,1,10,1,0,14,2,0,3,1,1,2,3,1,11,0,1,5,1,0,9,2,1,3,0,1,10,2,0,1,1,1,5,3,1,2,1,1,4,2,1,11,1,1,14,0,0,8,3,0,12,3,1,10,3,0,3,2,1,9,0,0,9,0,1,14,3,1,1,3,1,8,2,1,9,2,0,9,0,0,8,1,0,8,1

      "shoreline EQ"

      http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,22,1,6,2,0,6,0,0,21,1,1,1,3,0,10,3,0,13,3,0,13,1,0,14,2,0,6,1,1,11,0,0,4,0,1,12,3,0,4,0,0,7,1,0,7,2,0,2,1,0,4,3,1,19,1,0,7,1,1,5,0,0,15,0,0,7,2,1,6,1,1,8,0,1,7,0,0,6,1,0,19,3,0,10,2,0,6,0,1,14,1,1,13,1,1,15,0,0,8,1,0,2,0,1,16,3,1,3,1,0,9,0,1,15,0,0,11,2,0,13,3,0,13,3,0,17,0,1,14,2,1,5,2

    • CyranixMay 2013

      Wow, I finally got a neat one via random. 4 states, 13 symbols, yields an interesting illusion of depth as "blocks" start moving towards and away from the viewer. Recommended two notches down from default speed, three down if you're patient.

      http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,13,3,1,0,0,5,1,2,1,2,1,1,2,1,7,0,3,1,1,2,8,0,2,1,3,2,2,3,2,10,0,2,8,3,3,8,2,1,11,2,2,8,3,3,6,2,2,6,1,2,3,0,1,6,1,1,9,2,2,12,1,2,4,2,3,5,2,2,2,2,3,3,0,3,2,0,0,10,1,0,2,3,2,2,1,3,2,1,2,12,0,0,3,0,3,6,3,2,10,3,2,3,0,2,2,0,2,7,3,3,5,3,2,2,3,2,10,2,3,3,0,2,1,0,1,8,2,2,6,1,3,9,0,1,11,3,1,6,1,1,2,1,2,6,3,0,2,1,3,5,0,0,10,1,1,4,0

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