I'm currently regenerating the figures in the paper as the original ones were not very clear. This has entailed me rewriting Barricelli's simulations. I'm currently investigating a discrepancy in the results of the longest run reported in the paper. Either he or I have made a mistake!

Yes, the translation is in progress! I'm lucky to have found a team of three Italians to work with, including a professional translator. We are writing a commentary and will be submitting it to the Artificial Life journal soon. I will also make it freely available on my website when it is published.

I'm currently working with two Italian colleagues to produce a good quality English translation of Barricelli's 1954 paper. I didn't know that Luca Manzoni was interested in this - I'll get in touch with him! 👍

I love opening an old book in a library (this one from 1888) and wondering who was the first person to look at it? And who was the last?

Thanks! I've sent you a private message 👍

To be clear, I don't have any money to pay for a translation, but I anticipate we would get this published in a journal with an introduction authored by me (and the translator if they wished) and with the translator listed as a co-author.

My plan would be to have the English translation published in a journal

It looks like it's working now! I had tried using #ALife before but that didn't seem to work either, but maybe it just takes a while for tagged posts to appear on the list. But anyway, thanks @sinalana.bsky.social for sorting it out 👍

The #alife feed doesn't seem to be picking up messages with #alife hashtag 🤔 @sinalana.bsky.social

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Many thanks for the shout-out about our book! I'm really loving the ALife advent calendar - what a great idea 👍😀