it must be something in the range of complexity described in Permutation
City by Greg Egan :-)
a really nice SF book about automata, although I agree with someone I talked
to about it that it gets confusing/confused in the end. but maybe thats the
point...
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:13 PM, AlgoMantra <algomantra_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> A Pig implementation of a CA system would be good:
>> >>
>> >> http://incubator.apache.org/pig/
>> >
>> > The spiel on that website totally freaked me out, dude.
>>
>> It's a higher-level language for MapReduce operations.
>>
>> Which means it's a way of processing data across a network of
>> computers. So you can pass each cell out to a single computer and it
>> will process it (more realistically every 3 cells for a CA or every 9
>> cells for Life). This would allow you to process amazingly large CAs
>> very quickly.
>
>
>
> This is good stuff. Thanks Rob...
>
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