2022: Second Half News Summary

12/31/2022

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Progress in the T2 Tile Project

• Artifical Life Countdown: Build new life in 180 days
  • Monthly Plans to the Ancestor (#3124)
  • T-9: YouTube Studio reports "Reaching a Wider Audience"
    • Back Story: 1990 Clip 2 (#3127)
  • T-6: Engineering a new Serial Computer
    • Introducing the Diamond Sequencer (#3129)
  • T-5: Spatial Programming in 1D (#3130)
  • T-3: T2 Tile Grid Speedup (#3132)
  • T-1: The Diamond Lifecycle - Autopoesis in Action (#3134)
• 31 commits to ulam-5 develop repository for bug fixes, etc.

Outreach: Social

• The Computing Up podcast reached its 63rd episode
  • Twitter interaction w Andrew Davison (SLAM) re: "The Path to Best Effort" leads to most popular conversation
• Moved Twitter @livcomp to Mastodon, Oct 27th (100+ followers)
• T2 Tile Discord: 97 signed up

Outreach: Videos

• T2 Tile Project: +49 new, 849 subscribers
  • Posted 11 T2sday Updates #3123-#3134 to The T2 Tile Project YouTube channel
• T2 Demos channel: +2 new, 79 subscribers
  • Added demo #19 (2:01) Diamond Chain Spike
  • Added demo #210 (2:20) 2nd Gen Diamond Borders
  • Added demo #211 (2:58) Growing Diamonds
  • Added demo #212 (5:54) Growing Diamonds (full run)
• DaveAckley channel: +200 new, 5019 subscribers
  • No new videos

Outreach: Writing

• LCF is a publisher
  • First book selected for publication: "Companionate Caring: An Ethical Philosophy of Life" by Sheldon C. Ackley
  • Short story "Search Quiet Wake" (SQW) on hold.
• Shipped marginal notes for SFI Paper Intro: "Life and Computation: From Statistical Physics to Emergent Physics"

Foundation Business

• Third Board meeting held Dec 29th
• 1 new Nerd
• 5 recurring donors
• Zoom subscription
• Block of 100 ISBNs