On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:54 AM, James Propp<jpropp@cs.uml.edu> wrote:
If Conway were still posting to math-fun, he'd probably reply that I'd be better off just making numbered counters and moving them around. His early work on the Game of Life was done by hand, and he's of the opinion that some of the insights he gained from this couldn't have been gained if he'd just had a computer do the simulations. But I don't want to lose track of how I got to where I am. At the same time, I want the ability to backtrack. And I want to be able to mess around at the speed of thought, without having to write stuff down.
You could get a video camera and just record yourself playing; when you figure something out, play back the last few minutes of the video and write it down. -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://math.ucr.edu/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com