i spent the day reading about "Differentiable Self-organizing Systems", i'm very late posting about this but this is so cool if you haven't read about it till now. ever wondered how the cells in our body know where exactly to grow which specific organs? simple automaton programs with cell level rules can help us make regeneration simulations which mimic real biological behaviours! it can even help us write digits which auto classify themselves adhering to the MNIST dataset. read more here: https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/