2022: First Half News Summary

6/30/2022

T2 Live Grid Status: Reached 3 Lotus / 57 tiles in size:
- Logged 15+ total tile years runtime to date (see T2 Demos below)
Released ulam-5 for 64-bit architectures (6/6/22)
Design innovations for spatial scaling:
- 'HardCell3' (HC3) as a flexible minimal alternative to space-filling plates;
- Flexible 'pockets' as an alternative to specifying exact sites:
- "Introducing Low-Density Mobile Grid" [#3122]
Released: RingO coordination technique - a General Distributed Ring Oscillator [#3119]

The Computing Up podcast reached its 59th episode
Attended virtual SFI Embodiment Workshop:
- Implement "Interesting Cognition" by combining embodiment (implementation) and culture (codebase)
T2 Tile Discord hosts useful & lively interactions: new look, new folks
Twitter @livcomp (870 followers)

T2 Tile Project: +221 new, 800 subscribers
- Posted 11 T2sday Updates #3113-#3123 to The T2 Tile Project YouTube channel.
T2 Demos channel: +7 new, 77 subscribers
- Added demo #14 (1:50) "Annotated Huegene OG" (2015);
- Added demo #15 (13:58) "2D Printer Extended Cut" (2022);
- Added demo #16 (6:57) "Gas Clouds v10 & v11 - Spikes";
- Added demo #17 (22:46) "Huegene Long Run - Artificial Life Flow";
- Added demo #18 (3:57) "SoftCell v15".
DaveAckley channel: +76 new, 4819 subscribers
- Released "A Coordination Task" (0:33)
- The second HyperSpace Academy video "We Are Coders" reached 1613 views.

Submitted SFI Paper Intro: "Life and Computation: From Statistical Physics to Emergent Physics"
Short story "Search Quiet Wake" (SQW):
- SF magazine rejection count: 2
- Rewritten for improved accessibility after initial readers' feedback
- Considering self-publication