Stephen Silver

Stephen A. Silver is a Life enthusiast who is most well-known in the Life world as the creator and maintainer of the Life Lexicon , which is one of the most well-known and most used websites for learning about basic patterns and definitions used in Conway's Game of Life.

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His pattern discoveries include mosquito 4, which was the smallest-known (in terms of its initial number of cells) quadratically-growing pattern for a few days (until it was surpassed by mosquito 5). He also found the only known tagalong for the weekender, as well as the first true period 55 gun (with the help of Noam Elkies and David Buckingham). He found the glider synthesis that led to the construction of the first Cordergun in July 1999.

Additionally, he found a four-glider method of constructing a table next to another object, which led to a smaller glider syntheses of several still lifes.

Another prominent discovery of his is a reflector, discovered in November 1998. It still holds the record of the smallest and the fastest spartan stable reflector.

Patterns found by Stephen Silver

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gollark: Four dots? Wow.
gollark: Even if you reverse-engineer where it gets the hashes from and how it operates, by the nature of the thing you couldn't work out what was being detected without already having samples of it in the first place.
gollark: Anyway, the generality of this solution and the fact that they'll probably keep the exact details private for "security"-through-obscurity reasons also means that, as I have written here (https://osmarks.net/osbill/) in a blog post tangentially mentioning it, someone could just feed it hashes for, say, anti-government memes and find out who is saving those.
gollark: Although I suppose that *someone* probably keeps the originals around in case they have to change the hashing algorithm.
gollark: It's trickier on images (see how PyroBot does it...) but not impossible. (since you want moderately fuzzy matching, unlike SHA256 and such, which will produce an entirely different hash if a single bit is flipped)

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