2023: Second Half News Summary

12/31/2023

Artifical Life Multicellular Challenge: The six-month project reaches its climax.
- T-0 and Living: But you've never seen tech like this (#3141)
- T+1: Multicellular Menagerie Achieved (#3142)
Next Challenge Begins: T2 Matrix Meets World (#3144)
8 commits to ulam-5.x develop repository for bug fixes, etc.
- with contribution from @mngr777

The Computing Up podcast reached its 72nd episode
Mastodon @livcomp : continued slow growth in followers
T2 Tile Discord : continued slow growth of members
ALife2023 Conference Talk, July 25th, Sapporo Japan, Live via Zoom (see Videos)
- Winner: 2023 ISAL Education & Outreach Award
- ISAL Summer School Questionaire

T2 Tile Project: +80 new, 1.12K subscribers
- On the first Tuesday of each month, at noon Mountain Time
- Posted 5 T2sday Updates #3141-#3145 to The T2 Tile Project YouTube channel
T2 Demos channel: +4 new, 87 subscribers
- No new demos added here
DaveAckley channel: +360 new, 5230 subscribers
- An Introduction to the Living Computation Theory Of Everything: Stating the Obvious Out Loud (1:00:01 long; recorded live Sep 5th)
- Artificial Life Research Talk : The Diamond Replicator (16:17).
- ISAL Summer School Questionaire: How I Got Started in Artificial Life (9:57)
- 3 New Shorts, 5 Total:

ALife2023 Conference paper: A Robust Programmable Replicator for an Indefinitely Scalable Machine (pdf)
LCF publication: "Companionate Caring: An Ethical Philosophy of Life" by Sheldon C. Ackley
- 5 more copies sold.
- Excerpt: Ethics as Networking (#3138)
Short story "Search Quiet Wake" (SQW) to be part of Collected Works book : in progress.