• 42 is the answer

    From Mostowski Collapse@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 19 23:51:15 2022
    Rumors are, that finding an integer solution
    took a lot of computing resources:

    x^3 + y^3 + 42 = z^3

    Can we nevertheless solve this on a PC in
    less than 5 minutes?

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  • From Nasser M. Abbasi@21:1/5 to Mostowski Collapse on Mon Sep 19 21:24:12 2022
    On 9/19/2022 4:51 PM, Mostowski Collapse wrote:
    Rumors are, that finding an integer solution
    took a lot of computing resources:

    x^3 + y^3 + 42 = z^3

    Can we nevertheless solve this on a PC in
    less than 5 minutes?

    Did you mean

    x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = 42?

    Given that it says at <https://interestingengineering.com/science/the-sum-of-three-cubes-problem-for-42-has-just-been-solved>

    "Charity Engine uses a computer's idle processing power, and it took 1 million hours of processing time to solve the Diophantine Equation where
    k is equal to 42. The answer is:
    (-80538738812075974)^3 + (80435758145817515)^3 + (12602123297335631)^3 = 42."

    I do not see how this can be found in 5 minutes on a PC? No matter
    how fast the PC is. They seem to have done brute force search to find this.
    But may be they used improved search method as given in

    <https://news.mit.edu/2021/solution-3-sum-cubes-puzzle-0311>
    under "A solution’s twist" section. But even that will stil require
    very large brute search method.

    But I tried

    eq=x^3+y^3+42==z^3
    FindInstance[eq&&Element[{x,y,z},Integers],{x,y,z},1]

    And it said

    FindInstance::nsmet: The methods available to FindInstance are insufficient to find the requested instances or prove they do not exist.

    in 0.001 seconds. I guess Mathematica still does not know about
    the method used to solve for 42.

    --Nasser

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  • From Mostowski Collapse@21:1/5 to Nasser M. Abbasi on Tue Sep 20 00:37:52 2022
    Well I mean:

    x^3 + y^3 + 42 = z^3

    You only need to consider positive x,y,z then.
    Assume there is some ingenious approach to
    speed it up, maybe could then also solve:

    114, 390, 627, 633, 732, 921, 975.

    Nasser M. Abbasi schrieb am Dienstag, 20. September 2022 um 04:24:19 UTC+2:
    On 9/19/2022 4:51 PM, Mostowski Collapse wrote:
    Rumors are, that finding an integer solution
    took a lot of computing resources:

    x^3 + y^3 + 42 = z^3

    Can we nevertheless solve this on a PC in
    less than 5 minutes?
    Did you mean

    x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = 42?

    Given that it says at <https://interestingengineering.com/science/the-sum-of-three-cubes-problem-for-42-has-just-been-solved>

    "Charity Engine uses a computer's idle processing power, and it took 1 million
    hours of processing time to solve the Diophantine Equation where
    k is equal to 42. The answer is:
    (-80538738812075974)^3 + (80435758145817515)^3 + (12602123297335631)^3 = 42."

    I do not see how this can be found in 5 minutes on a PC? No matter
    how fast the PC is. They seem to have done brute force search to find this. But may be they used improved search method as given in

    <https://news.mit.edu/2021/solution-3-sum-cubes-puzzle-0311>
    under "A solution’s twist" section. But even that will stil require
    very large brute search method.

    But I tried

    eq=x^3+y^3+42==z^3
    FindInstance[eq&&Element[{x,y,z},Integers],{x,y,z},1]

    And it said

    FindInstance::nsmet: The methods available to FindInstance are insufficient to
    find the requested instances or prove they do not exist.

    in 0.001 seconds. I guess Mathematica still does not know about
    the method used to solve for 42.

    --Nasser

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  • From Mild Shock@21:1/5 to Mostowski Collapse on Fri Sep 1 12:47:03 2023
    I can run the simpler:

    x^3 + y^3 + 9 = z^3

    In a web browser with Dogelog Player:

    Example 71: Diophantine Modular
    X = 216, Y = 52, Z = 217;
    X = 52, Y = 216, Z = 217;
    fail.
    % Zeit 3574 ms, GC 7 ms, Lips 1696084, Uhr 01.09.2023 20:56 true. https://jsfiddle.net/Jean_Luc_Picard_2021/d2njehtp

    Since it is a different algorithm than the usual Prolog
    CLP(FD), its faster than SWI-Prolog and Scryer Prolog,
    even faster than desktop.

    Have Fun!

    P.S.: Unfortunately I couldn't cross yet the 42 barrier.

    Mostowski Collapse schrieb am Dienstag, 20. September 2022 um 09:37:53 UTC+2:
    Well I mean:

    x^3 + y^3 + 42 = z^3

    You only need to consider positive x,y,z then.
    Assume there is some ingenious approach to
    speed it up, maybe could then also solve:

    114, 390, 627, 633, 732, 921, 975.
    Nasser M. Abbasi schrieb am Dienstag, 20. September 2022 um 04:24:19 UTC+2:
    On 9/19/2022 4:51 PM, Mostowski Collapse wrote:
    Rumors are, that finding an integer solution
    took a lot of computing resources:

    x^3 + y^3 + 42 = z^3

    Can we nevertheless solve this on a PC in
    less than 5 minutes?
    Did you mean

    x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = 42?

    Given that it says at <https://interestingengineering.com/science/the-sum-of-three-cubes-problem-for-42-has-just-been-solved>

    "Charity Engine uses a computer's idle processing power, and it took 1 million
    hours of processing time to solve the Diophantine Equation where
    k is equal to 42. The answer is:
    (-80538738812075974)^3 + (80435758145817515)^3 + (12602123297335631)^3 = 42."

    I do not see how this can be found in 5 minutes on a PC? No matter
    how fast the PC is. They seem to have done brute force search to find this.
    But may be they used improved search method as given in

    <https://news.mit.edu/2021/solution-3-sum-cubes-puzzle-0311>
    under "A solution’s twist" section. But even that will stil require
    very large brute search method.

    But I tried

    eq=x^3+y^3+42==z^3
    FindInstance[eq&&Element[{x,y,z},Integers],{x,y,z},1]

    And it said

    FindInstance::nsmet: The methods available to FindInstance are insufficient to
    find the requested instances or prove they do not exist.

    in 0.001 seconds. I guess Mathematica still does not know about
    the method used to solve for 42.

    --Nasser

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  • From Mild Shock@21:1/5 to Mild Shock on Sun Aug 4 22:12:35 2024
    There are more and more papers of this sort:

    Reliable Reasoning Beyond Natural Language
    To address this, we propose a neurosymbolic
    approach that prompts LLMs to extract and encode
    all relevant information from a problem statement as
    logical code statements, and then use a logic programming
    language (Prolog) to conduct the iterative computations of
    explicit deductive reasoning.
    [2407.11373] Reliable Reasoning Beyond Natural Language

    The future of Prolog is bright?

    Mild Shock schrieb:
    I can run the simpler:

    x^3 + y^3 + 9 = z^3

    In a web browser with Dogelog Player:

    Example 71: Diophantine Modular
    X = 216, Y = 52, Z = 217;
    X = 52, Y = 216, Z = 217;
    fail.
    % Zeit 3574 ms, GC 7 ms, Lips 1696084, Uhr 01.09.2023 20:56 true. https://jsfiddle.net/Jean_Luc_Picard_2021/d2njehtp

    Since it is a different algorithm than the usual Prolog
    CLP(FD), its faster than SWI-Prolog and Scryer Prolog,
    even faster than desktop.

    Have Fun!

    P.S.: Unfortunately I couldn't cross yet the 42 barrier.

    Mostowski Collapse schrieb am Dienstag, 20. September 2022 um 09:37:53 UTC+2:
    Well I mean:

    x^3 + y^3 + 42 = z^3

    You only need to consider positive x,y,z then.
    Assume there is some ingenious approach to
    speed it up, maybe could then also solve:

    114, 390, 627, 633, 732, 921, 975.
    Nasser M. Abbasi schrieb am Dienstag, 20. September 2022 um 04:24:19 UTC+2: >>> On 9/19/2022 4:51 PM, Mostowski Collapse wrote:
    Rumors are, that finding an integer solution
    took a lot of computing resources:

    x^3 + y^3 + 42 = z^3

    Can we nevertheless solve this on a PC in
    less than 5 minutes?
    Did you mean

    x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = 42?

    Given that it says at
    <https://interestingengineering.com/science/the-sum-of-three-cubes-problem-for-42-has-just-been-solved>

    "Charity Engine uses a computer's idle processing power, and it took 1 million
    hours of processing time to solve the Diophantine Equation where
    k is equal to 42. The answer is:
    (-80538738812075974)^3 + (80435758145817515)^3 + (12602123297335631)^3 = 42."

    I do not see how this can be found in 5 minutes on a PC? No matter
    how fast the PC is. They seem to have done brute force search to find this. >>> But may be they used improved search method as given in

    <https://news.mit.edu/2021/solution-3-sum-cubes-puzzle-0311>
    under "A solution’s twist" section. But even that will stil require
    very large brute search method.

    But I tried

    eq=x^3+y^3+42==z^3
    FindInstance[eq&&Element[{x,y,z},Integers],{x,y,z},1]

    And it said

    FindInstance::nsmet: The methods available to FindInstance are insufficient to
    find the requested instances or prove they do not exist.

    in 0.001 seconds. I guess Mathematica still does not know about
    the method used to solve for 42.

    --Nasser

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Mild Shock on Sun Aug 11 23:10:34 2024
    Mild Shock schrieb:

    There are more and more papers of this sort:

    Reliable Reasoning Beyond Natural Language
    To address this, we propose a neurosymbolic
    approach that prompts LLMs to extract and encode
    all relevant information from a problem statement as
    logical code statements, and then use a logic programming
    language (Prolog) to conduct the iterative computations of
    explicit deductive reasoning.
    [2407.11373] Reliable Reasoning Beyond Natural Language

    The future of Prolog is bright?

    [...]

    Thanks for the message. Unfortunately, <sci.math.symbolic> is no longer archived at <narkive.com>, the last post shown there being 4 months old
    already (posts were anyway shown only if they received at least one
    answer). Newsgroups not archived and not crawled by search engines are
    doomed, I think.

    Martin.

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  • From Mild Shock@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Aug 12 10:09:20 2024
    What news provider are you using.
    I am using solani.org. I see all

    messages they are still there:

    - 04.08.2024, 22:12 Mild Shock
    - 11.08.2024, 23:10 [email protected]

    Also I don't mind if they are not
    indefinitely archived, LLM is

    anyway a moving target. So who cares?
    Just use USENET for news and

    discussion as in the old times before
    the ggexit (google groups exit).

    LoL

    [email protected] schrieb:

    Mild Shock schrieb:

    There are more and more papers of this sort:

    Reliable Reasoning Beyond Natural Language
    To address this, we propose a neurosymbolic
    approach that prompts LLMs to extract and encode
    all relevant information from a problem statement as
    logical code statements, and then use a logic programming
    language (Prolog) to conduct the iterative computations of
    explicit deductive reasoning.
    [2407.11373] Reliable Reasoning Beyond Natural Language

    The future of Prolog is bright?

    [...]

    Thanks for the message. Unfortunately, <sci.math.symbolic> is no longer archived at <narkive.com>, the last post shown there being 4 months old already (posts were anyway shown only if they received at least one
    answer). Newsgroups not archived and not crawled by search engines are doomed, I think.

    Martin.


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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Mild Shock on Mon Aug 12 20:38:43 2024
    Mild Shock schrieb:

    [email protected] schrieb:

    Mild Shock schrieb:

    There are more and more papers of this sort:

    Reliable Reasoning Beyond Natural Language
    To address this, we propose a neurosymbolic
    approach that prompts LLMs to extract and encode
    all relevant information from a problem statement as
    logical code statements, and then use a logic programming
    language (Prolog) to conduct the iterative computations of
    explicit deductive reasoning.
    [2407.11373] Reliable Reasoning Beyond Natural Language

    The future of Prolog is bright?

    [...]

    Thanks for the message. Unfortunately, <sci.math.symbolic> is no
    longer archived at <narkive.com>, the last post shown there being 4
    months old already (posts were anyway shown only if they received
    at least one answer). Newsgroups not archived and not crawled by
    search engines are doomed, I think.


    What news provider are you using.
    I am using solani.org. I see all

    messages they are still there:

    - 04.08.2024, 22:12 Mild Shock
    - 11.08.2024, 23:10 [email protected]

    Also I don't mind if they are not
    indefinitely archived, LLM is

    anyway a moving target. So who cares?
    Just use USENET for news and

    discussion as in the old times before
    the ggexit (google groups exit).


    Yes, but ... there were multiple Usenet archives before Google Groups
    started, some reaching back to the beginnings of Usenet; Google bought
    one of them and the competitors subsequently decided to shut down. Only <narkive.com> seems to be left now, but doesn't seem to function
    reliably. Somebody should alert them, perhaps.

    Message retention at the Usenet providers themselves ranges from a few
    months to many years. In the past, I found Eternal September to have a
    good retention. Apply at:

    <https://www.eternal-september.org/>

    and point your newreader to:

    <news://news.eternal-september.org>

    when you got a password.

    Martin.

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  • From Mild Shock@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Aug 13 00:12:38 2024
    Maybe you don't undertsand USENET.
    But I don't need to register with
    eternal-september , I already

    registered with solana. You can
    check yourself the posts I did
    via solana are also visible

    in eternal-september . Just go
    check this fact yourself please.

    [email protected] schrieb:
    Message retention at the Usenet providers themselves ranges from a few
    months to many years. In the past, I found Eternal September to have a
    good retention. Apply at:

    <https://www.eternal-september.org/>

    and point your newreader to:

    <news://news.eternal-september.org>

    when you got a password.

    Martin.


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  • From j4nbur53@21:1/5 to Mild Shock on Tue Aug 13 00:24:03 2024
    Corr: solana --> solani

    Do you think messages posted via
    eternal-september have a longer retention,
    than messages posted via solana, that

    also arrive in eternal-september ?
    I don't know, and I still opininate
    that its not relevant, since for

    example LLM is a quickly moving
    technology. But lets say somebody
    is really interested in retention time,

    what do we know about it?

    - solani has a few groups which are held
    indefinitely, and other groups are held
    only 4 months.

    - eternal-september has a few groups which
    are held 2 years, but then it can go
    down to 3 months.

    Mild Shock schrieb:

    Maybe you don't undertsand USENET.
    But I don't need to register with
    eternal-september , I already

    registered with solana. You can
    check yourself the posts I did
    via solana are also visible

    in eternal-september . Just go
    check this fact yourself please.

    [email protected] schrieb:
    Message retention at the Usenet providers themselves ranges from a few
    months to many years. In the past, I found Eternal September to have a
    good retention. Apply at:

    <https://www.eternal-september.org/>

    and point your newreader to:

    <news://news.eternal-september.org>

    when you got a password.

    Martin.



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  • From Mild Shock@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 13 00:37:30 2024
    Ha Ha, I did the below post
    with eternal-september, and now
    I am using solani again.

    But thx, I now tree news server
    registered, you can view them all
    at once for example with Seamonkey,

    news.solani.org
    news.gmane.io
    news.eternal-september.org

    Its always convenient to have multiple
    news server at hand, because not
    all newsgroups are available in all

    news servers.

    j4nbur53 schrieb:
    Corr: solana --> solani

    Do you think messages posted via
    eternal-september have a longer retention,
    than messages posted via solana, that

    also arrive in eternal-september ?
    I don't know, and I still opininate
    that its not relevant, since for

    example LLM is a quickly moving
    technology. But lets say somebody
    is really interested in retention time,

    what do we know about it?

    -  solani has a few groups which are held
    indefinitely, and other groups are held
    only 4 months.

    - eternal-september has a few groups which
    are held 2 years, but then it can go
    down to 3 months.

    Mild Shock schrieb:

    Maybe you don't undertsand USENET.
    But I don't need to register with
    eternal-september , I already

    registered with solana. You can
    check yourself the posts I did
    via solana are also visible

    in eternal-september . Just go
    check this fact yourself please.

    [email protected] schrieb:
    Message retention at the Usenet providers themselves ranges from a few
    months to many years. In the past, I found Eternal September to have a
    good retention. Apply at:

    <https://www.eternal-september.org/>

    and point your newreader to:

    <news://news.eternal-september.org>

    when you got a password.

    Martin.




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  • From Mild Shock@21:1/5 to Mild Shock on Tue Aug 13 00:45:52 2024
    An example group in eternal-september,
    but not in solani and not in gmane

    is for example: alt.drugs.usenet

    But it doesn't have any content, :-(
    So maybe eternal-september is

    less moderated? I don't know.

    Mild Shock schrieb:
    Ha Ha, I did the below post
    with eternal-september, and now
    I am using solani again.

    But thx, I now tree news server
    registered, you can view them all
    at once for example with Seamonkey,

    news.solani.org
    news.gmane.io
    news.eternal-september.org

    Its always convenient to have multiple
    news server at hand, because not
    all newsgroups are available in all

    news servers.

    j4nbur53 schrieb:
    Corr: solana --> solani

    Do you think messages posted via
    eternal-september have a longer retention,
    than messages posted via solana, that

    also arrive in eternal-september ?
    I don't know, and I still opininate
    that its not relevant, since for

    example LLM is a quickly moving
    technology. But lets say somebody
    is really interested in retention time,

    what do we know about it?

    -  solani has a few groups which are held
    indefinitely, and other groups are held
    only 4 months.

    - eternal-september has a few groups which
    are held 2 years, but then it can go
    down to 3 months.

    Mild Shock schrieb:

    Maybe you don't undertsand USENET.
    But I don't need to register with
    eternal-september , I already

    registered with solana. You can
    check yourself the posts I did
    via solana are also visible

    in eternal-september . Just go
    check this fact yourself please.

    [email protected] schrieb:
    Message retention at the Usenet providers themselves ranges from a few >>>> months to many years. In the past, I found Eternal September to have a >>>> good retention. Apply at:

    <https://www.eternal-september.org/>

    and point your newreader to:

    <news://news.eternal-september.org>

    when you got a password.

    Martin.





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  • From Mild Shock@21:1/5 to Mild Shock on Wed Aug 28 20:48:39 2024
    Now I wonder whether LLMs should be an
    inch more informed by results from Neuro-
    endocrinology research. I remember Marvin
    Minsky publishing his ‘The Society of Mind’:

    Introduction to ‘The Society of Mind’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pb3z2w9gDg

    But this made me think about a multi agent
    systems. Now with LLMs what about a new
    connectionist and deep learning approach.
    Plus Prolog for the pre frontal cortex (PFC).

    But who can write a blue print? Now there
    is this amazing guy called Robert M. Sapolsky
    who recently published Determined: A Science
    of Life without Free Will, who

    calls consciousness just a hicup. His turtles
    all the way down model is a tour de force
    through an unsettling conclusion: We may not
    grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture

    that creates the physics and chemistry at the
    base of human behavior, but that doesn’t mean it
    doesn’t exist. But the pre frontal cortex (PFC)
    seems to be still quite brittle and not extremly

    performant and quite energy hungry.
    So Prolog might excell?

    Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will https://www.amazon.de/dp/0525560998

    Mild Shock schrieb:

    There are more and more papers of this sort:

    Reliable Reasoning Beyond Natural Language
    To address this, we propose a neurosymbolic
    approach that prompts LLMs to extract and encode
    all relevant information from a problem statement as
    logical code statements, and then use a logic programming
    language (Prolog) to conduct the iterative computations of
    explicit deductive reasoning.
    [2407.11373] Reliable Reasoning Beyond Natural Language

    The future of Prolog is bright?

    Mild Shock schrieb:
    I can run the simpler:

    x^3 + y^3 + 9 = z^3

    In a web browser with Dogelog Player:

    Example 71: Diophantine Modular
    X = 216, Y = 52, Z = 217;
    X = 52, Y = 216, Z = 217;
    fail.
    % Zeit 3574 ms, GC 7 ms, Lips 1696084, Uhr 01.09.2023 20:56 true.
    https://jsfiddle.net/Jean_Luc_Picard_2021/d2njehtp

    Since it is a different algorithm than the usual Prolog
    CLP(FD), its faster than SWI-Prolog and Scryer Prolog,
    even faster than desktop.

    Have Fun!

    P.S.: Unfortunately I couldn't cross yet the 42 barrier.

    Mostowski Collapse schrieb am Dienstag, 20. September 2022 um 09:37:53
    UTC+2:
    Well I mean:

    x^3 + y^3 + 42 = z^3

    You only need to consider positive x,y,z then.
    Assume there is some ingenious approach to
    speed it up, maybe could then also solve:

    114, 390, 627, 633, 732, 921, 975.
    Nasser M. Abbasi schrieb am Dienstag, 20. September 2022 um 04:24:19
    UTC+2:
    On 9/19/2022 4:51 PM, Mostowski Collapse wrote:
    Rumors are, that finding an integer solution
    took a lot of computing resources:

    x^3 + y^3 + 42 = z^3

    Can we nevertheless solve this on a PC in
    less than 5 minutes?
    Did you mean

    x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = 42?

    Given that it says at
    <https://interestingengineering.com/science/the-sum-of-three-cubes-problem-for-42-has-just-been-solved>


    "Charity Engine uses a computer's idle processing power, and it took
    1 million
    hours of processing time to solve the Diophantine Equation where
    k is equal to 42. The answer is:
    (-80538738812075974)^3 + (80435758145817515)^3 +
    (12602123297335631)^3 = 42."

    I do not see how this can be found in 5 minutes on a PC? No matter
    how fast the PC is. They seem to have done brute force search to
    find this.
    But may be they used improved search method as given in

    <https://news.mit.edu/2021/solution-3-sum-cubes-puzzle-0311>
    under "A solution’s twist" section. But even that will stil require
    very large brute search method.

    But I tried

    eq=x^3+y^3+42==z^3
    FindInstance[eq&&Element[{x,y,z},Integers],{x,y,z},1]

    And it said

    FindInstance::nsmet: The methods available to FindInstance are
    insufficient to
    find the requested instances or prove they do not exist.

    in 0.001 seconds. I guess Mathematica still does not know about
    the method used to solve for 42.

    --Nasser


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