#busybeaver — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #busybeaver, aggregated by home.social.
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Why Busy Beaver Hunters Fear the Antihydra
https://benbrubaker.com/why-busy-beaver-hunters-fear-the-antihydra/
#HackerNews #BusyBeaver #Antihydra #ComputerScience #ComplexityTheory #TechNews
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Why Busy Beaver Hunters Fear the Antihydra
https://benbrubaker.com/why-busy-beaver-hunters-fear-the-antihydra/
#HackerNews #BusyBeaver #Antihydra #ComputerScience #ComplexityTheory #TechNews
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Why Busy Beaver Hunters Fear the Antihydra
https://benbrubaker.com/why-busy-beaver-hunters-fear-the-antihydra/
#HackerNews #BusyBeaver #Antihydra #ComputerScience #ComplexityTheory #TechNews
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Why Busy Beaver Hunters Fear the Antihydra
https://benbrubaker.com/why-busy-beaver-hunters-fear-the-antihydra/
#HackerNews #BusyBeaver #Antihydra #ComputerScience #ComplexityTheory #TechNews
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Why Busy Beaver Hunters Fear the Antihydra
https://benbrubaker.com/why-busy-beaver-hunters-fear-the-antihydra/
#HackerNews #BusyBeaver #Antihydra #ComputerScience #ComplexityTheory #TechNews
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Turns out #BusyBeaver is a furniture store in the US, i got the gopher effect
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Turns out #BusyBeaver is a furniture store in the US, i got the gopher effect
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👨🔬🤓 "Scholars determined the mythical fifth Busy Beaver value because, clearly, the world was on the edge of its seat over this 🐢🚶♂️💤. A #symposium of geniuses and their 'Simons Foundation' piggy bank have once again shown us what happens when #boredom meets #academia. 🏆📚"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12337 #BusyBeaver #FifthValue #ScholarlyAchievements #HackerNews #ngated -
👨🔬🤓 "Scholars determined the mythical fifth Busy Beaver value because, clearly, the world was on the edge of its seat over this 🐢🚶♂️💤. A #symposium of geniuses and their 'Simons Foundation' piggy bank have once again shown us what happens when #boredom meets #academia. 🏆📚"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12337 #BusyBeaver #FifthValue #ScholarlyAchievements #HackerNews #ngated -
👨🔬🤓 "Scholars determined the mythical fifth Busy Beaver value because, clearly, the world was on the edge of its seat over this 🐢🚶♂️💤. A #symposium of geniuses and their 'Simons Foundation' piggy bank have once again shown us what happens when #boredom meets #academia. 🏆📚"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12337 #BusyBeaver #FifthValue #ScholarlyAchievements #HackerNews #ngated -
👨🔬🤓 "Scholars determined the mythical fifth Busy Beaver value because, clearly, the world was on the edge of its seat over this 🐢🚶♂️💤. A #symposium of geniuses and their 'Simons Foundation' piggy bank have once again shown us what happens when #boredom meets #academia. 🏆📚"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12337 #BusyBeaver #FifthValue #ScholarlyAchievements #HackerNews #ngated -
Amazing how a Turing Machine with just six instructions can keep running almost, but not quite, forever.
"The quest to find the longest-running simple computer program has identified a new champion. It’s physically impossible to write out the numbers involved using standard mathematical notation."
#TuringMachines #BusyBeaver #Mathematics #Instructions #Numbers
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Amazing how a Turing Machine with just six instructions can keep running almost, but not quite, forever.
"The quest to find the longest-running simple computer program has identified a new champion. It’s physically impossible to write out the numbers involved using standard mathematical notation."
#TuringMachines #BusyBeaver #Mathematics #Instructions #Numbers
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Amazing how a Turing Machine with just six instructions can keep running almost, but not quite, forever.
"The quest to find the longest-running simple computer program has identified a new champion. It’s physically impossible to write out the numbers involved using standard mathematical notation."
#TuringMachines #BusyBeaver #Mathematics #Instructions #Numbers
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Amazing how a Turing Machine with just six instructions can keep running almost, but not quite, forever.
"The quest to find the longest-running simple computer program has identified a new champion. It’s physically impossible to write out the numbers involved using standard mathematical notation."
#TuringMachines #BusyBeaver #Mathematics #Instructions #Numbers
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Amazing how a Turing Machine with just six instructions can keep running almost, but not quite, forever.
"The quest to find the longest-running simple computer program has identified a new champion. It’s physically impossible to write out the numbers involved using standard mathematical notation."
#TuringMachines #BusyBeaver #Mathematics #Instructions #Numbers
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🐻🔍 So apparently, "Busy Beaver hunters" are busy playing with numbers so big, they make ordinary math cry for its mommy. 📏💔 Meanwhile, Quanta Magazine is busy patting itself on the back for publishing yet another deep dive that only the Simons Foundation and a dozen math nerds will pretend to understand. 🙄🧠
https://www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-hunters-reach-numbers-that-overwhelm-ordinary-math-20250822/ #BusyBeaver #MathNerds #QuantaMagazine #SimonsFoundation #DeepDive #HackerNews #ngated -
🐻🔍 So apparently, "Busy Beaver hunters" are busy playing with numbers so big, they make ordinary math cry for its mommy. 📏💔 Meanwhile, Quanta Magazine is busy patting itself on the back for publishing yet another deep dive that only the Simons Foundation and a dozen math nerds will pretend to understand. 🙄🧠
https://www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-hunters-reach-numbers-that-overwhelm-ordinary-math-20250822/ #BusyBeaver #MathNerds #QuantaMagazine #SimonsFoundation #DeepDive #HackerNews #ngated -
🐻🔍 So apparently, "Busy Beaver hunters" are busy playing with numbers so big, they make ordinary math cry for its mommy. 📏💔 Meanwhile, Quanta Magazine is busy patting itself on the back for publishing yet another deep dive that only the Simons Foundation and a dozen math nerds will pretend to understand. 🙄🧠
https://www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-hunters-reach-numbers-that-overwhelm-ordinary-math-20250822/ #BusyBeaver #MathNerds #QuantaMagazine #SimonsFoundation #DeepDive #HackerNews #ngated -
🐻🔍 So apparently, "Busy Beaver hunters" are busy playing with numbers so big, they make ordinary math cry for its mommy. 📏💔 Meanwhile, Quanta Magazine is busy patting itself on the back for publishing yet another deep dive that only the Simons Foundation and a dozen math nerds will pretend to understand. 🙄🧠
https://www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-hunters-reach-numbers-that-overwhelm-ordinary-math-20250822/ #BusyBeaver #MathNerds #QuantaMagazine #SimonsFoundation #DeepDive #HackerNews #ngated -
Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math
#HackerNews #busybeaver #mathematics #extraordinarynumbers #computationaltheory #mathnews
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Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math
#HackerNews #busybeaver #mathematics #extraordinarynumbers #computationaltheory #mathnews
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Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math
#HackerNews #busybeaver #mathematics #extraordinarynumbers #computationaltheory #mathnews
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Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math
#HackerNews #busybeaver #mathematics #extraordinarynumbers #computationaltheory #mathnews
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Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math
#HackerNews #busybeaver #mathematics #extraordinarynumbers #computationaltheory #mathnews
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🐦🔍 "Breaking News: BusyBeaver(6) Is Large! 🚀 Apparently, math problems are big! Who knew? 🤔 Meanwhile, quantum computers won't save the day by magically solving hard problems. 😱 Also, don't miss tips on educational reform buried somewhere in this existential crisis. 📚🌪️"
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8972 #BusyBeaver #QuantumComputers #MathProblems #EducationalReform #ExistentialCrisis #HackerNews #ngated -
🐦🔍 "Breaking News: BusyBeaver(6) Is Large! 🚀 Apparently, math problems are big! Who knew? 🤔 Meanwhile, quantum computers won't save the day by magically solving hard problems. 😱 Also, don't miss tips on educational reform buried somewhere in this existential crisis. 📚🌪️"
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8972 #BusyBeaver #QuantumComputers #MathProblems #EducationalReform #ExistentialCrisis #HackerNews #ngated -
🐦🔍 "Breaking News: BusyBeaver(6) Is Large! 🚀 Apparently, math problems are big! Who knew? 🤔 Meanwhile, quantum computers won't save the day by magically solving hard problems. 😱 Also, don't miss tips on educational reform buried somewhere in this existential crisis. 📚🌪️"
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8972 #BusyBeaver #QuantumComputers #MathProblems #EducationalReform #ExistentialCrisis #HackerNews #ngated -
🐦🔍 "Breaking News: BusyBeaver(6) Is Large! 🚀 Apparently, math problems are big! Who knew? 🤔 Meanwhile, quantum computers won't save the day by magically solving hard problems. 😱 Also, don't miss tips on educational reform buried somewhere in this existential crisis. 📚🌪️"
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8972 #BusyBeaver #QuantumComputers #MathProblems #EducationalReform #ExistentialCrisis #HackerNews #ngated -
BB(5) = 47,176,870
Fully accessible article here:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathematicians-find-fifth-busy-beaver-turing-machine-20240702
Source code that I wrote to demonstrate the problem, which they clearly didn't use:
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BB(5) = 47,176,870
Fully accessible article here:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathematicians-find-fifth-busy-beaver-turing-machine-20240702
Source code that I wrote to demonstrate the problem, which they clearly didn't use:
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BB(5) = 47,176,870
Fully accessible article here:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathematicians-find-fifth-busy-beaver-turing-machine-20240702
Source code that I wrote to demonstrate the problem, which they clearly didn't use:
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BB(5) = 47,176,870
Fully accessible article here:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathematicians-find-fifth-busy-beaver-turing-machine-20240702
Source code that I wrote to demonstrate the problem, which they clearly didn't use:
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BB(5) = 47,176,870
Fully accessible article here:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathematicians-find-fifth-busy-beaver-turing-machine-20240702
Source code that I wrote to demonstrate the problem, which they clearly didn't use:
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BB(5) = 47,176,870
Possibly the last busy beaver number we'll ever know definitively:
https://discuss.bbchallenge.org/t/july-2nd-2024-we-have-proved-bb-5-47-176-870/237The quanta article linked at the end provides a very nice overview of the history of the humans and computers involved in the story: https://www.quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathematicians-find-fifth-busy-beaver-turing-machine-20240702/
Scott Aaronson's blog post provides some technical details and a variety of other reference links: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8088
Apart from the crazy technical aspects, what I find most exciting and interesting is how some (many?) of those involved are "amateur mathematicians", in it because they love mathematics and found this problem challenging.
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BB(5) = 47,176,870
Possibly the last busy beaver number we'll ever know definitively:
https://discuss.bbchallenge.org/t/july-2nd-2024-we-have-proved-bb-5-47-176-870/237The quanta article linked at the end provides a very nice overview of the history of the humans and computers involved in the story: https://www.quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathematicians-find-fifth-busy-beaver-turing-machine-20240702/
Scott Aaronson's blog post provides some technical details and a variety of other reference links: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8088
Apart from the crazy technical aspects, what I find most exciting and interesting is how some (many?) of those involved are "amateur mathematicians", in it because they love mathematics and found this problem challenging.
-
BB(5) = 47,176,870
Possibly the last busy beaver number we'll ever know definitively:
https://discuss.bbchallenge.org/t/july-2nd-2024-we-have-proved-bb-5-47-176-870/237The quanta article linked at the end provides a very nice overview of the history of the humans and computers involved in the story: https://www.quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathematicians-find-fifth-busy-beaver-turing-machine-20240702/
Scott Aaronson's blog post provides some technical details and a variety of other reference links: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8088
Apart from the crazy technical aspects, what I find most exciting and interesting is how some (many?) of those involved are "amateur mathematicians", in it because they love mathematics and found this problem challenging.
