Posting this here, maybe some programmers or philosophers or whatever could be interested.
Competition is to run Game of Life in reverse time. By any method, can you predict the starting position from an ending position? Unfortunately no prizes, fame only.
https://www.kaggle.com/c/conways-rever ... discussion
Already some python examples are up on the site.
Programming competition - Game of Life
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