 Welcome to the T2 tile project school pageant, the multicellular menagerie one brief announcement in fairness to all participants your mouse buttons are now disabled until the show is over. Let's get right into it. So first up we have the second and third grade classes present the adventures of mix slash on the T2 tile. Now the folks that were watching the live stream saw a longer version of this just now. It starts out okay the slash heading up into the right up into the right. But you know the fact is anything that reproduces is going to start running into itself start getting crowding up. So those two things have collided. Yeah. So I let this run for a long time. This is where it ends up. This is what example of what we would call not clean living. So all right. And that is the second and third graders. Good enough. Yes. The fourth and fifth grade class present backslash mc backslashy face on the T2 matrix actually taking advantage of some of the learnings from the other ones. This ends up having a lot of the same problems but cleans up better. It takes quite a while for the segments to pair up and they hold pretty well. This one down here looks good but in fact it's messed up. There's lots of problems here. But again so these guys have collided but they clean up. These guys have collided but they clean up etc. Live together. Die together. Okay. That is backslash mc backslashy face. And finally the sixth grade class presents their design project. Little die owns MFMS and this is running on the simulator because they didn't have quite enough time to get onto the T2 matrix. Looks just like mcslash but wait. The four cell little die. It's actually a big die and it's trucking pretty well. It's beating its head against the edge of the universe at the moment but then it heads east. And I think this is pretty interesting actually. So these dark lines in the simulator those are the simulated intertile connections and they cause trouble. And we'll see this thing is about to head west. And it bobbles around and messes up and so forth quite a bit. But then when it gets into the meat of this tile just take a look at this. It's pretty smooth. It's nice. And then it messes up again when it gets to the intertile. So that is it. The first half multicellular challenge succeeded one month late. I will take it. So these were the goals for today. Multicellular menagerie. Artificial life conference talk success. I'll talk about that new video on the Dave Ackley channel. I'll talk about that every day fun. I did not too badly but every day would be a little bit too strong. Okay so today. Multicellular menagerie we saw it. I have to talk about the cheat report and it really comes down to one issue. Physics, physics, too much physics bringing physics to a biology fight. So the idea is that stuff that's physics cannot be changed without rebuilding an entirely new universe. Whereas stuff that's biology is much more soft. It's just arranged the bits in a certain pattern. You could change the bits. So the biology is like programmable whereas the physics is like firmware, hardware like that. And so there's too much physics going on. So for example, this is just a bunch of gobbledygook but it's part of little dye actually. It's dye seek number four. That's diamond sequence. There's an information, a collection of information about each diamond in a multicellular creature has some number. Number four in little dye is the north diamond. And it's actually the leader and leader is equal to true. And this is its life plan. Last time that was its boot operations or something like that. But then I realized that, you know, so the WN, WN, NNN, lowercase, those are instructions that just this diamond is supposed to do. And that is to help get it up above so that the diamond it's supposed to get next to when it's first created will be there. But then the uppercase ones, this is the new thing. Those are commands to the entire organism. We're all supposed to go west for up to five on the timer, then south, then west. Now for seven on the timer, we're supposed to go north, east, southwest. And that's exactly what we saw. Little dye, north, east, south, and west. And that's all hard coded and not satisfying in the bigger picture. But again, it's right to make it physics first and then say how could we take that information, boil it down, encode it in some kind of little instruction set and try to pack it into the ancestor chain itself. So I'll take it. I'll take it for now. I don't think I want to try to, you know, publish it in nature yet because too much physics. Education and outreach. So this is a photograph from Emily Doulson who was in Sapporo, Japan for the artificial life conference, unlike me, because we're still not traveling. So I was doing the talk via Zoom. And this is what it looked like from her seat. Too bad, actually. And, you know, I was using all my learnings from these T Tuesday updates, you know, giant font, you know, Max Green, all of this stuff. Now my research talks are just T Tuesday updates with more jargon. Not basically. And, you know, I think it worked out okay. I think it worked out okay. And so it ended up producing not one but two videos on the Dave Ackley channel. So that's why I was able to check off the goal for this time. This one was the folks that were doing the summer school thing sent me a request to make this little video about answering these three questions in the 10 minutes. And so I did it. And then this is the talk. This is the talk that we just saw on the screen. So, you know, I more than satisfied the requirement of having a video on the Dave Ackley channel, but it wasn't what it was supposed to be. It was supposed to be a new standing created video to go on the Dave Ackley channel, but what the heck, I will take it. You know, so the Sapporo conference was the first in person artificial life conference since 2019. And I wasn't there and the online component wasn't all that great in some respects, but you know, that's what happens. It's not as social. But they had this thing called Neuromatch where if you wanted to you could answer these five questions on a web thing and then they would match you according to some secret algorithm. And they had an in person version of it so that you'd be matched with three or four people and you were supposed to go talk to the people in your group and figure out why you were matched together. They also had online versions where they were matching together online people. But, you know, it was like 2am, you know, something like that. You know, the afternoon in Sapporo is like 2am in the mountain time. And so when we got to do the online version of it, you know, I was the only one in my online group who showed up. And most of the other online groups, which we could see in Discord, were empty too. But there were a few scattered around. So we all just made our own group that were not Neuromatched at all. We were just the one that actually showed up. And so I met this guy, Andrew Kutaravi, and we had a great conversation. You know, he's interested in computational systems biology, distributed algorithms, all of this stuff. So, you know, I think the Neuromatch could probably do about as good a job as it did just by random matching. And it's a really good idea just to take the social impetus. So nobody has to walk up to anybody, especially in the online circumstances, because there's something else to do it. So that was fun. All right. And then there was this. The T2 Tile Project is an award winner. It received the 2023 ISAL International Society for Artificial Life Award for Education and Outreach. And I just had to make this up. There's no proof of this yet, but apparently there will be a blog posting on alife.org sometime soon. But I swear it happened. And this was the citation for the 2022 Education and Outreach Award. And I sort of imagine that it'll probably be the same to recognize the authors of an outstanding project that either teaches about artificial life or uses artificial life techniques to teach about another topic or inspires users to learn more on their own. So does the T2 Tile Project do that? Maybe some. Maybe a little bit of all of it. What do you think? I made a button. I'm happy. We'll take some recognition because it proves to me once again. All right. So that's education and outreach. And so finally, the multicellular challenge is now done. And so what's going to be the plan for the rest of 2023? What's the plan for the T2 Tile Project in general? Well, so this is what I figured out. I want to talk about it a little bit. These are the goals for next time. I want to have a living computation video out on the Dave Ackley channel. I have a plan for that. And so I need to put a deadline on it. And so the deadline will be the next T Tuesday, even though it's not really exactly T2 Tile related, it's more general. But I think it counts in the bigger picture. I need to work on the tools. I need to work on the stream deck button stuff. And I want to try to work on MFMS because I've been using it a lot. And there's just a couple of features that I really, really wish it had that maybe I could get one or two of them in there. And basically I want to push back from Oolong, from multicellularity, from all this. I just want to decompress for a little while because I'm a little burnt out. This multicellular stuff was really hard. And there was an important step in the middle where I got the parallel threading going, which sped up the builds a lot, like from 8 minutes plus to 2 minutes plus, that sort of thing, which helped a ton. But it was all a lot. So I'm going to hack on other stuff and so forth and hopefully have some good big fun. I'm really looking forward to trying to get this video out. So that is it. I went quick and so be it. Thank you, folks, again for showing up for the award-winning T2 tile project. Doesn't look so good in text on text. And I hope to see you in the Discord and here next time.