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This is amazing, more detail about how it works: http://b3s23life.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html?m=1


And by the author of this version: https://blog.oimo.io/2023/04/10/life-universe-en/


That’s so clever. Nothing stands as particularly revolutionary but the author brilliantly solved all the problems to deliver the final product. They are only a undergraduate student as well, they have a bright future ahead.


Why do you write that they're only an undergraduate student? They just finished their PhD https://twitter.com/shr_id/status/1770769090719731873


If you're curious why the document was issued in "year 6":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiwa_era


Thank you! I still don't understand the relationship between "year 6" and undergraduate, or where does it say "year 6". I'm honestly wondering as I don't know anything about Japan


Nothing to do with undergrad/PhD - I was just commenting on the way the date was written (2024-03-21 in Chinese/big-endian format, 21.03.2024 in European/small-endian format, 03/21/2024 in the muddled US format):

At the bottom of the document, it says "令和 6 年 3 月 21 日“, where the first two characters denote the Reiwa era which started in 2019 (=year 1 of the Reiwa era). 2024 then is year 6 of that era. And that's just what the next two characters denote: "6 年" = year 6. "3 月" is month 3 (the character symbolises a moon), and "21 日" is day 21 (the character symbolises a sun).




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