Question
This mathematician, but not the 2008 Maxis game, inspired Nevermann et al.'s Spore Life. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this English mathematician whose namesake grid-based "Game of Life" was popularized by Martin Gardner.
ANSWER: John Horton Conway (Nevermann et al. 2025 is "A Game of Life with dormancy.")
[10m] Spore Life can feature the stochastic death of "dormant" cells, thus removing this algorithmic property of Conway's Game of Life. The "N" in "P equals NP" stands for "non-[this property]."
ANSWER: deterministic
[10h] Spore Life's alpha parameter is the probability of this property for a dormant spore between generations. A field of statistics named for the "analysis" of this property uses the Kaplan–Meier estimator to predict the namesake complement of the CDF.
ANSWER: survival [or word forms such as surviving; accept survival analysis; accept survival function]
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 37 | 9.73 | 87% | 11% | 0% |