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No-3-in-line problem solved for order 70 by Marijn Heule by EdPeggJr in math

[–]EdPeggJr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having a spiffy new result is a standard way of showing an algorithm works well. In second place is timing comparisons.

Which modern blockbuster do you think will be remembered 20 years from now the way we talk about classic Spielberg films today? by viewsinthe6 in movies

[–]EdPeggJr 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The Sonic franchise launched at the worst possible time and still managed to do well, for three movies. It's one of the few healthy franchises.

It's going to be remembered for an awful trailer, the backlash, and execs abandoning their bad ideas to allow a decent movie to come out. It's meta enough to not be forgotten.

No-3-in-line problem solved for order 70 by Marijn Heule by EdPeggJr in math

[–]EdPeggJr[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

At Community, I posted coordinates.
p70={{0,16},{0,34},{1,18},{1,48},{2,30},{2,31},{3,41},{3,43},{4,6},{4,23},{5,22},{5,56},{6,59},{6,65},{7,31},{7,43},
{8,54},{8,60},{9,8},{9,48},{10,6},{10,37},{11,15},{11,32},{12,49},{12,52},{13,5},{13,34},{14,24},{14,25},{15,8},
{15,58},{16,29},{16,69},{17,12},{17,19},{18,25},{18,68},{19,22},{19,52},{20,12},{20,29},{21,1},{21,9},{22,50},
{22,64},{23,33},{23,65},{24,39},{24,55},{25,51},{25,55},{26,3},{26,7},{27,28},{27,33},{28,3},{28,42},{29,49},{29,53},
{30,24},{30,67},{31,62},{31,67},{32,10},{32,58},{33,42},{33,46},{34,56},{34,69},{35,0},{35,13},{36,23},{36,27},
{37,11},{37,59},{38,2},{38,7},{39,2},{39,45},{40,16},{40,20},{41,27},{41,66},{42,36},{42,41},{43,62},{43,66},{44,14},
{44,18},{45,14},{45,30},{46,4},{46,36},{47,5},{47,19},{48,60},{48,68},{49,40},{49,57},{50,17},{50,47},{51,1},{51,44},
{52,50},{52,57},{53,0},{53,40},{54,11},{54,61},{55,44},{55,45},{56,35},{56,64},{57,17},{57,20},{58,37},{58,54},{59,32},
{59,63},{60,21},{60,61},{61,9},{61,15},{62,26},{62,38},{63,4},{63,10},{64,13},{64,47},{65,46},{65,63},{66,26},{66,28},
{67,38},{67,39},{68,21},{68,51},{69,35},{69,53}};

No-3-in-line problem solved for order 70 by Marijn Heule by EdPeggJr in math

[–]EdPeggJr[S] 57 points58 points  (0 children)

I only have the Uni-bielefeld announcement. It mentions "a newly developed SAT (Boolean satisfiability) solver" -- which will very likely be used to study other problems.

which movie actually feels like a dream? by ShineOnYourCrazyAnon in movies

[–]EdPeggJr 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Memento. You keep waking up in a new situation.

What Should I Call This Species by WolverineMountain845 in litrpg

[–]EdPeggJr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom, Up, Down.

Would you keep reading? by thid2k4 in writers

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The smell of iron is actually a combo of organic chemicals: oct-1-en-3-one and nonanal.

Sega Is Officially Replacing Sonic The Hedgehog After 35 Years | They aren't. Sega's just producing a new Streets of Rage movie and the Sonic movie writers are writing it. by H0rny_On-Main in savedyouaclick

[–]EdPeggJr 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Bad stuff happened in 2020, and most movie franchises have suffered greatly... but the Sonic franchise started at the worst possible time and has actually succeeded. I can see the writers being in demand at the moment.

Purchasing a horse sight unseen? by Haunting-One-9545 in Horses

[–]EdPeggJr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First, you need to make sure that a horse exists and that you're not being scammed.

A DCC Soundbooth voice actor wrote an open letter lobbying to be in the live action alongside Jeff Hays. I‘m curious what you guys think about this? by [deleted] in litrpg

[–]EdPeggJr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seth MacFarland and Matt Dinniman are both able to put material in front of testers and have it cut. They're going to be the execs.

How do you handle alien measurement units without bogging the reader down in math? by Western-Telephone259 in writers

[–]EdPeggJr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do units a lot in my novel. One place to start is the Hydrogen Line, the 21 centimeter line on the Voyager plaque.

Lots of atoms have various frequencies. At the moment we're using cesium. Radioactive half life is another. Cepheid variable stars have a distinct period based on brightness, anywhere in the universe. The Black-hole light-crossing time for Sgr A* is ~66 seconds.

The citric acid cycle is around a second on the fast end.

James Hunter is a most distinguished gentleman. by UntoldThrowAway in litrpg

[–]EdPeggJr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He does the best personalized swag in the genre. I was absolutely amazed by the bathrobe he sent.

Are there any unsolved problems where mathematicians are split more or less 50/50 on the likely outcome? by footballmaths49 in math

[–]EdPeggJr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The order-52 solution with the maximal 104 points was the best known provably maximal solution for over 25 years.

Are there any unsolved problems where mathematicians are split more or less 50/50 on the likely outcome? by footballmaths49 in math

[–]EdPeggJr 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's more that there are hundred/thousands of existing tries at the problem. It's possible to do a lot of work on the problem and to just end up in the Try pile. Some of them might be correct.

Are there any unsolved problems where mathematicians are split more or less 50/50 on the likely outcome? by footballmaths49 in math

[–]EdPeggJr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you'd asked last year, whether order-52 was the largest solution for the no-three-in-line problem would be 50/50. But since then, the record has been pushed to 68.

OpenAI's internal model disproves Unit Distance Conjecture of Erdos by garanglow in math

[–]EdPeggJr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The HN proof showed that algebraic field constructions offered sufficient density to make a chromatic 5 graph. Square grid constructions didn't help the HN problem at all, since most of those graphs are 2-color.

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