Said Achmiz comments on Botworld: a cellular automaton for studying self-modifying agents embedded in their environment

Said Achmiz 11 Apr 2014 19:03 UTC
2 points
There we go! This is what I meant when I asked for instructions. :)

Going to check it out as soon as I have time away from classes/etc.

Edit: Has anyone tried installing the Haskell Platform via MacPorts? I’m going to try it, I think!

Edit2: Success! Instructions (given that you have a Mac and MacPorts):
```
$ sudo port install haskell-platform
```
If you don’t have git, do this step:
```
$ sudo port install git  
```
Carry on…
```
$ git clone https://github.com/machine-intelligence/Botworld.git
$ cd Botworld/examples
$ curl -O https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Soares/10444320/raw/3f96fe8e3cfe7afce7ec80d3e8fd07f304f2e6f1/gistfile1.txt
$ mv gistfile1.txt Botworld.hs
$ runhaskell Rudimentary.hs
```
Edit3: How the heck do I stop the commenting software from putting those angle brackets around my URLs inside code blocks?
- Richard_Kennaway 11 Apr 2014 19:48 UTC
  2 points
  Parent
  How the heck do I stop the commenting software from putting those angle brackets around my URLs inside code blocks?
  
  This is an experiment. Attempt 1:
```
a url: http://example.com
```
  Attempt 2:
```
a url: http\://example.com
```
  Attempt 3:
```
a url: http://example.com
```
  1: Just the url to replicate the original problem.
  
  2: Backslashing the colon. That blocks the URL-recogniser, but the backslash isn’t interpreted.
  
  3: Unicode ZERO WIDTH SPACE before the colon. It works! Well, no, it doesn’t. You get something that looks like a url until someone tries copying and pasting it.