#BAUniC 2016

#BAUniC2016 is the competitive event finalizing the year's efforts of participating teams.

As of 20160720, simplified rules (called #BAUniC-Prime-Pyramid):
Each year winners will get 1/3 of the pot, or an agreed maximum lower than that (10 bitcoins and 5000 USD for first prize winners, increasing if the total prizes can be covered with less than 1/10 of the pot. We will get less than the cut kickstarter gets for their 'just being there'.) 

Each year votes will half in price regardless of use.
(20170128 update: this was the expectation without the wild exchange rate disruption of bitcoin to USD in 2017. See #BAUniC2017 for updated vote rates)
2016 will see 1 bitcoin : 1024 votes, and 1 USD : 2 votes.

2017 will see 1 bitcoin : 2048 votes, and 1 USD : 4 votes.

Damn straight we want this to grow into pyramid scheme, and become a self-sustaining structure with replaceable human and technological components, like Nobel Prizes. But it won't give back money. Mostly endorphin rewards, and the sense of building something unstoppable that will change the world.

Full set of rules here:
baunic.blogspot.com/2016/02/building-universe-competition.html

Even simpler rules still forming a pyramid: #BAUniC-Sharp-Pyramid

Where half of the gathered pot is given to the best formula (of this prize, 10% held for promotion and maintenance, and if you think you can do it for cheaper, feel free to propose your scheme for this decentralized project) and the other half will be held for next year.


Don't like the pyramid prize version? Feel free to offer your own prizes.

For example:

Suela.hats is offering 3 hats to the winners, anywhere in the world, and 1 hat to the first 30 participants with working projects if they are within Albania. Very sweet of them. (offer valid through 2016 and 2017)

Or,

Baboon.al is offering 10'000 Euro to the first team with a stable fractal of a universe of changeable size, + accompanying generating function, rendered and addressable (polynomial form, aka. skippable steps), holding nuclear reactions in an environment that does not annihilate itself in at least a billion cycles of their base hydrogen atom clone orbits. They are smart. We would be at the verge of the revolution when getting there. Till then, they get the advertising here along with incentive for progress, paying nothing. (offer valid 2016-2020)

We are fine with just a promise. Your reputation on the line.

Projects presented need to be consistent instructions on how to reproduce the results, including instruction set (x86, ARM...), Operating System (Windows, Linux...), program (and where to get the program), and steps to get from the seeding code to the rendered results.

Final date to present projects will be November 13, and voting will end on November 25, 2016, allowing adequate time for judges to test them and reach their conclusions.

Challengers:

* GoTeamAlbania (goteamalbania-baunic.blogspot.al)
* TheAlien5cientists (alienscientist.com)
* S0S_Universe_Team (no project presented yet)
* 196883 (intro from numberphile: youtube.com/watch?v=jsSeoGpiWsw, seeking new members that already know 196883, at 196883mg@gmail.com)
* PES_Golly (pesgolly.blogspot.com)
* Vibrational-World (linkedin.com/pulse/vibrational-world-albert-thomagjini)
* Quantum_asymmetry (between time and space)(rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/472/2185/20150670) 

Nominated Challengers:
NerdfighteriaLegion
TheNumberphileAlliance
EganDisciples
MadMaxPartisans
PETU (People for the Ethical Treatment of Universes)
OpenSourceUniverse
LMFDB
UnfamiliarPhysics (keeping them nominated even after retreat)

Not Nominated:
"No Man's Sky" team, because their starships outclass ours infinity-to-1, but we love what they are doing for our civilization. (no-mans-sky.com)


Youtube representative: Terrence Popp of redonkulas.com
youtube.com/user/redonkulaspopp

Bitcoin donations are gathered here:
184FreFajZwXksbezbKaU4XHxonVAyaYs2
Treasurer, Nathan Fisher of the channel Nate's Turn (youtube.com/user/NatesTurn)

USD donations are gathered here:
(kickstarter project in the works. We live in a country where we can't open kickstarter directly, but we are managing through allies again)

During 2016, 1 Bitcoin : 1024 votes (rounded down to the lowest integer vote). 1 USD : 2 Votes.

Current Coin Pot: 0 (zero)
(what we need is intellectual contribution, the coins are here just to tease and gather eternal support through the mechanism of vote deflation)

Voting:

Votes (for each category) will be given to the projects voters see fit, in any order or arrangement.

(e.g., if I have 10 votes, I may wish to give all of them to only 1 project on the 'Best Formula' category, and give 3-3-2-1-1 votes on the 'Best Tutorial' category, and pass on the decision to my mate in the 'Best Scenery' category.)

Projects will be ordered by number of votes in their respective category.

Voters:

none(yet)

Participating teams will be rewarded with symbolic votes, 7 votes for their main project in the chosen category, +5 votes for a tutorial to building a similar project (not just steps to reproducing the results), and +3, +2, +1 votes for participating in other categories.

Finalists will also have a symbolic vote gift, +13 votes for making it to the finals of their chosen category, +11 votes for the tutorial finals, and respectively +6, +4 and +2 if they make it to more categories.

Winners will also have a symbolic vote gift, +19 votes for winning their chosen category, +17 if they win the tutorial race, and +9, +6, +3 if they win more categories.

These votes will be dispensed after the competition event and be valid from that moment on, not before.

The #BAUniC Team:

Virtual Universe: zero votes (wi'd rather help in other ways, virtualuniverse.the at gmail)

Shqep Palla: zero votes (can't deflate that, shqepalla at gmail)

Nathan Fisher: zero votes (the Treasurer, youtube.com/NatesTurn)

Rubin Gurabardhi: zero votes (will do a website redesign if there comes a need for it, facebook.com/maidiremsn)

Alessia Morina: zero votes (charming the hearts of the new generation through gently whispered dreams of grandeur, alessamorre.blogspot.com)

Terrence Popp: zero votes (#BAUniC youtube representative youtube.com/user/redonkulaspopp)

Since this is a human-to-human collaboration project, votes are less important than actually brainstorming and bringing forth something worthy, rewarding in more ways than just dropping a preference on a project.

Organizational: virtualuniverse.the at gmail dot com

Cheerful/rageful chirping: twitter.com/Virtua1Universe
(expected rare posts. We don't believe in spamming your feed unless we have something to say)

Even less updates:
facebook.com/bauniccc

Like/share/retweet organizing:

baunicretwarmy.blogspot.com
facebook.com/groups/baunicretwarmy

Needs and collaboration:
linkedin.com/in/baunic

Summary:
wikipedia.org/wiki/BAUniC
 
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Changelog:
20160420 - Encouraging participation by giving away symbolic votes.
20160507 - BAUniC RETwarmy
20160720 - Simplified rules
20160808 - #BAUniC-Prime-Pyramid and #BAUniC-Sharp-Pyramid
20161123 - As promised, the limited prestige title of 'Founder' goes to who made #BAUniC before the first competition. The work group and their media presence accounts got marked as '#BAUniC Team'


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See also:
. #BAUniC 2016 Finalists 
(baunic.blogspot.com/2016/11/baunic-2016-finalists.html) .
. #BAUniC:Enthusiasm
(baunic.blogspot.com/2016/09/baunicenthusiasm.html) .
. Why does the universe exist?
(virtualuniverse-the.blogspot.com/2014/05/why-does-universe-exist.html) .
. #BAUniC Trigger Warning
(baunic.blogspot.com/2016/09/trigger-warning-baunic-will-change-world.html) .

#BAUniC TL;DR

'Building A Universe Competition/Collaboration/Challenge' is our attempt to give the world a little push in the direction of sharing expertise, enthusiasm and inspiration, and interacting towards improving the tools and preparation which will help in our exploration of the mathematical universe, whether maths is the substrate of physics or not.

Challenge:

We seek to find self-consistent fractal formulas representing complex structures with enough stability and diversity to allow substructures to compete for finite 'resources' like energy, and evolve, and eventually build civilizations. We do not seek a Theory of Everything directly, though anthropocentric universes would be cool and awesome.

Collaboration:

We think there is enough knowledge and computing power in the world today to allow persistent individuals to have a shot at finding life inside fractals, but the information is hard to find and swallow forming a gap that discourages fans and non-technical artists. We aim to bridge this gap with step-by-step tutorials and overall human interaction fueling the production of various tools and methods to easily go from idea to rendering.

There is no need to reinvent the wheel.

Competition:

Where individuals and groups can present their formulas and path to visualizing them in a computer.

Where contributors and testers will check the presented works, replicate, evaluate, discuss, and eventually vote on them.

Contributors:

Mathematicians, Physicists, Programmers, Artists, Treasurers, Marketers, Testers, Organizers, Voters, and various well-wishing and people.

Voting Contributors are the ones who are rewarded with the ability to vote on projects by 1coin=1vote rule (actually 1bitcoin=maaaanyvotes & 1USD=8votes for 2018, halving the price each year. The idea is: once you are a contributor, you will be a contributor for life, with exactly the same votes as before, inspiring you to be an ally in more ways than just a voter. New donations will buy more votes for the same coin, fair since you already voted. More information and illustration by example can be found at http://baunic.blogspot.com/2016/02/building-universe-competition.html)

minds.com/BAUniC

facebook.com/bauniccc

twitter: @Virtua1Universe

linkedin.com/in/baunic

virtualuniverse.the at gmail