@AlgoRythm DR ate my prior comment and fucked up the spacing, but have you tried varying any of the numbers mentioned and looked at the slope of the convergence rates across different configurations?

Also those are mega cool papers Algol. Thanks!

@BugsBuggy I put it through archive.is first. First thing I noted is it wants technical information and doesn't specify what. I'd fill it out but I'm entirely uninterested in providing my ip address.

@AlgoRythm Any sufficiently large population over time, will be a sampling of the full distribution of some parameter sweep over the grid of some distribution.

@AlgoRythm thank you. Going through the first now.

Anyone wanting to read it can find it here:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0902.1629

First thing that pops out

"The methodology proposed in [1] minimizes an influence of random circum-

stances and different power of the used computers. In particular, the com-

putation is run 100 times for each function of the test set. The number of

successful runs is then taken as the probability of the success (the compu-

tation is considered to be successful if the difference between the best value

found by the algorithm and the theoretical optimum is less than 1% of the

optimum value, or a distance is less than 0.1 if the theoretical optimum is

zero). If 500 generations pass and the optimum is still not reached"

I wonder if these numbers are empirical or if they just eyeballed them during test runs, or if theres some other theoretical reason they chose 1%, 0.1, and 500, etc?

@JsonBoa parameter sweep a grid, just randomize where you start for each parameter, and use some sort of bitmask for the combination of all selected parameters.

Doesn't get you partial activation of course.

Hey algorythm what papers you reading?

@BugsBuggy I'd love a platform that I could bitch about poorly made games on.

Anything steam-stats-esque would be great too.

@Wisecrack edit: after filtering, not before.

though I haven't implemented the full filtering regime either.

Why 7 btw?

@BordedDev RIP.

More meteor showers to come.

I'll make a post on DR when I hear about the new ones.

@AlgoRythm lol, alright, I'll give it a go. Number of candidates before sampling and a bunch of other filters, grows by a factor of about 2.4534 per digit (where 'one' digit here is the addition of both a digit to p, and a digit to q). So if you have 1400 pairs of 3 digits, at 4 digits, after filtering, you have 3,434 pairs, etc.

@AlgoRythm depends on the size of log2(n).

@AmyShackles Star trek is legit the most boring shit ever filmed.

But to each their own.

@BordedDev you were up late getting your drink on, did you see the meteor shower by chance?

Was too damn cloudy on our end.

@AlgoRythm It works out to any n. Current regime is subexpotential, same territory as general number field sieve, but I have a solid path to making it faster and more memory efficient.

@CoreFusionX it makes me think, if you dig deep enough, you will find one guy in iowa or something, who, if he vanished or died, everything else, by an absurd logistics chain, and unlikely degrees-of-separation, would collapse gradually or all at once.

We should make it our mission to find him (or her), and pay the man to go live in the woods and let the rest of civilization burn.

Could be worse.

Could by typing on a rigged speak-n-spell.

Name it jerry.

@whimsical mistral, like most LLMs are more hype than reality.

Still a big deal, but I think people get way to excited, or alternatively, BTFO, more over what they think AI is, versus what it is in practice.

@wojtek322 people change, but only very slowly, and rarely do they change completely, but they do change.

@whimsical cognitive tests are mostly just ego-strokes anyway.

I imagine day #14 be like "my spouse has decided to divorce, and marry skynet. They say they need stability and 'its not you, its me.'"

@Lensflare another appropriate song would be "for whom the bell tolls."

Good work LF.

@kiki but also if you use the wrong pronouns she might getcha!

feminist chucky can't hurt you.

@AlgoRythm sorry man, didn't get back to you late because I was busy watching for meteors, seeing if I could catch the tail end of the Perseids with family seeing as it was cloudy the night prior during the peak.

Did I manage to find your pair?

What were your factors?

@BordedDev didn't get back to you last night until late because I was busy having a deep conversation with family about google and other corporations recent shenanigans, while watching for meteors.

@BordedDev While I think he's right that there should be more people with core knowledge (and I can't really place why), it also sounds distinctly like pseudo-sincerity or rationalization, but I don't know enough about the maintainers to say whether they're being genuine or not.

@AlgoRythm sorry was busy.

Your pair is in this set of 1400 or so pairs:

https://rentry.co/8zwmqi4m

@AlgoRythm my brother, can you not spare some oats and post a semiprime?

@Liebranca I did not check your code at all, I'm only upvoting for effort.

@12bitfloat the big question is if you can still stand up or if you have to crawl so you don't fall down.

The real test of who is a true alcoholic and who is merely a weekend warrior.

@BordedDev just has the same feel as every other open project that denied going commercial right before it announced it was going commercial or obtaining a venture partner.