 Hey folks, it's T Tuesday 3120. Here were the goals for this time. How did we do deliver overdue paper intro? I made a lot of progress. I feel like I've got a path through to reach the end. Complexity and communication from statistical physics to emergent physics. I think an important change that happened in the early days of A-Life, a long story short, no, I did not deliver the paper intro, but I think I'm on track to deliver it this week, so hopefully that counts as progress. Number two, achieve next SQW rejection. Did we accomplish that? Let's take a look. So my goal for the science fiction story, search quiet wake, which I've been talking about for months here. My new attitude is, you know, the goal is to increase its rejection count. It's only been rejected once. That's unacceptable. Back in the morning, Friday, May 6th, I want to get search quiet wake story submitted to Clark's World right now so that there's a chance with its average of two-day turnaround time that I can get the story's rejection count bumped before T Tuesday next Tuesday. Made a little cover letter text. I hope this does not count as too long. We'll find out. New submission. Full name. I'll skip ahead through a little bit so this may be word count. See, search, quake, and the cover letter is presser science, owner search. Uh-uh. Thanks for the, what, you're telling me it's too long? Okay, well, okay, all right. Up the file. I hate the way this thing sorts. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. Worked so hard to become a one space after a full stop. Uh-uh-uh. Okay, 1918, Ackley, Ackley, Ackley Shack 4850, uh-uh-uh, boom, I'm gonna do it. That's it. Submitted. So, yes, yes, we achieved the, the next SW rejection. I'll have a few more words at the end today about next steps there. Finally, the research story from last time. We had this idea of going beyond doing this ring oscillation, the generalized distributed ring oscillator, which previously had been confined to a 2D plate and going back and forth. But we were observing that, hey, it could be more general than that. We might be able to use it in particular for structures that aren't as rigid as the plate. And we came up with this idea of a gas cloud, did a couple of versions of it. And I'm repeating it now because for what it's worth, last T Tuesday update, 3119 did terribly. Number 10 out of 10 in the recent scores. And from one point of view, whether I get 90 views or 140 views before the next T Tuesday update, either way, that's enough, at least it has been so far, to get me to focus and show up and try to have some progress to report to y'all and the folks that do come and do support it. I love you. I love you. But it's pretty clear, I think, what happened to 3119. Number one, it had a terrible title cooling the grid and making clouds. Number two, it had a terrible thumbnail. And number three, it was 30 minutes long, which is like, I can't even imagine. So, all right. And the long and short of this was, you know, the other thing was, which was a little bit unfortunate because had this cool stuff in it, these gas clouds that were that are moving around soft, all of that stuff. I tweeted a little cut down version of one of the versions of it like that, you know, because I think I think the stuff there is worthy, at least interesting. And, you know, in the live stream last time was great. There was a lot of conversation and questions and details and related work and all kinds of stuff like that. And it just drove home to me that, you know, my nerd instinct is, you know, to give the good stuff is to give nerd details, you know, but for most folks, if this is supposed to be outreach, you know, nerd details are at best time wasted or perhaps, you know, some sort of anthropological sort of sit back and say, nerds think that means something like that. And again, you know, the takeaway message for me, no, that's not, that's the message I want to take. Yes, short and sweet. And so all of this is to just, you know, reaffirm for me, I want to say, come on, 15 minute max target, you know, and I need to learn to love canned food, you know, on the one hand, I really am oriented towards live interactions and, you know, so like doing workshops and stuff like that conversations with people, you know, that's where I can kind of be myself and be real to the moment. And I do that, not terribly, I think. And when it comes to doing prepared stuff, canned stuff where you can edit and script and take have extra takes, that's where I'm not so strong because so boring. So I need to learn to do love doing the can bits and to like I did with the sqw thing to cut, cut, cut, cut. And I would have cut that again, but I ran out of time. And mainly demo, demo, demo, focus on the demo. And, you know, the demo, I don't want to appreciate it, but it's the key aspect of bottom up engineering. It's the key aspect of building bottom up. When you're going top down with science, the key thing that you're offering is truth, the truth that you didn't know. But when you're building bottom up, what you're offering is a capability, a fact that we can make this thing happen, you know, it's a demo, it's humble, it's got an arbitrary, you know, sample problem, whatever it is. But it offers the idea that maybe we could apply something like that to a different problem to my problem to more complex problems and so forth. Also, I didn't really like the gas cloud. It seemed, you know, fog of war, not very pleasant. So I have rebranded it. It's no longer a gas cloud. Now it's a soft sell, very marketing-y. Also, apparently, a 80s synth pop duo from the UK. So, all right, so the opening demo that we just saw here, we actually did have Ringo walking and chewing gum at the same time. The individual clouds, they were doing their sink, they were doing their Ringo yellow, red, green, blue, sink, whatever it was, but they were also actually moving around between them. And the way that was working, this root drift idea was, you know, the only thing that actually moved, moved was the root, the center of it. And everything else just said, geez, you know, I thought I was one hop away from the root, but now I'm two hops away from the root, or I thought I was two hops away, and now I'm one hop away. So that information propagates to the periphery, and the periphery that the root moved away from says, whoa, I'm too far away. And it withers, whereas the periphery on the root moved towards it, oh, hey, I can grow more. So just by moving the root and waiting a little while, you can see the cloud moving with it, the entourage following the root. So soft sell v12, which is what we saw at the beginning, is just that root drifting random walk. And, you know, it's really slow. It's really, really slow. That was a bunch of days on the grid to get what we saw there. And, you know, it's got, you know, and that's the funny thing about random walks, you know, random walks take, you know, roughly the quadratic time square root of n steps is how far you'll actually go typically depends on dimensionality, but not that much. And the net effect of that is that if you're small, then moving, you know, if you want to move, you know, one times your size, and you're small, then random walks, brownie in motion will do that for you nicely. But if you're bigger, and so you need to move one times your size when you're bigger, it takes forever. And that's what we were seeing in the soft cells. So the question is, how to separate faster? Did another piece of work got soft cell v13 up on the grid? The biased root drift. Let's just take a quick look at it first. And then if there's time, I'll explain a little bit more how it works. This one, right? Right, v13. That's pretty cool. I feel good about that. The, without going into any details, the idea is now that edges of the cloud send information about how crowded they are back to the root, and the root tries to move away from crowding so that it tends to pull things apart. And again, it's still a random drift. Oops, I wanted. So, so I'm going to stop there. Talking the live stream. If folks want to go into more details about how v13 works. But for next time, 3121 on May 24, I'd like to submit, select the next search quiet wake rejection opportunity and possibly submit it depending on what the details are. And there's a bigger picture here, which is you know, okay, I'm starting to get it. You know, I'm submitting it to places that are actually, would actually pay me if they took it. So there's plenty of people that are submitting to these places. So they're, you know, if it just doesn't, if it doesn't sniff perfectly, you know, they're going to, they're just going to immediately move on. And so I can understand that. But I want to get this story out. And to spend, you know, months or years, who knows, retuning this one thing to make it so whatever, I don't think it's in the best interest of the time or the work. So I think we'll go one more round, you know, three rejections, I think is minimum honorable rejection count for SKW. And then we'll think about doing something else. After that, if it doesn't go through gas cloud, no, not soft sell, I didn't fix the slides. I want to build something bigger than a single route. I would like to make a little mini cloud or maybe even a plate. I'm not sure that will serve as the route of the soft sell around it. We'll see how that goes. And once again, continue to try to have some fun. I hope things are going okay for everybody out there. I just got my second booster. So I'm wondering whether I actually dare interact with the world a little bit more. We've been keeping on pretty strict lockdown around here. I hope things are going well with you. I hope to see you here next time. Thanks for coming.