Just for fun, it would be cool if each of us remembers to take the time to leave at least 1 or 2 little puzzles for our descendants to figure out, as a way to have happier feelings again one last time with you, in a way. My grandpa would totally have done something like this. I remember he showed me a big book of unsolved lost locations of buried treasure, and a related story he read me about a golden key hidden behind a wooden tile of Key West, FL in a large, painted wooden wall map of that part of the ocean.
I'd totally love to leave a little puzzle for those I love. Maybe we could all try to remember to do so, or do it now way in advance by setting up cloud compute accounts running a script like a time capsule that will send out certain messages at a specific date in the future.
My mom left behind some number code
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Re: My mom left behind some number code
#42Just for fun, it would be cool if each of us remembers to take the time to leave at least 1 or 2 little puzzles for our descendants to figure out, as a way to have happier feelings again one last time with you, in a way. My grandpa would totally have done something like this. I remember he showed me a big book of unsolved lost locations of buried treasure, and a related story he read me about a golden key hidden behi…
> I'd totally love to leave a little puzzle for those I love.
Maybe this is a good way of reframing my mess of a Home Assistant install.
Why does the coffee machine turn on at that time? Why does the ventilation system do that?
Re: My mom left behind some number code
#43Just for fun, it would be cool if each of us remembers to take the time to leave at least 1 or 2 little puzzles for our descendants to figure out, as a way to have happier feelings again one last time with you, in a way. My grandpa would totally have done something like this. I remember he showed me a big book of unsolved lost locations of buried treasure, and a related story he read me about a golden key hidden behi…
I like this idea. Some comments in the bank account of my daughters with some code. What else can stand the pass of time?
Re: My mom left behind some number code
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not only would it have been left unanswered, it would have been almost impossible to get an answer even with enormous resources. You could have paid a detective agency millions of dollars and the chance that one of them would stumble upon an obscure memory test containing the numbers would have been slim to none, even with tens of thousands of man-hours dedicated to the task.
Makes me wonder how many man-hours were spent on this now. Surely either it was luck that a person with this knowledge read the question, or an extremely large number of people read the question?
Or maybe the one who answered just tried googling for an increasing sequence of those numbers. You can try by yourself to see if it works.
Re: My mom left behind some number code
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not only would it have been left unanswered, it would have been almost impossible to get an answer even with enormous resources. You could have paid a detective agency millions of dollars and the chance that one of them would stumble upon an obscure memory test containing the numbers would have been slim to none, even with tens of thousands of man-hours dedicated to the task.
Makes me wonder how many man-hours were spent on this now. Surely either it was luck that a person with this knowledge read the question, or an extremely large number of people read the question?
Probably someone with some good search engine skills. Considering most of the numbers are exact matches, searching for those exact numbers should result in a hit if it has been crawled
Re: My mom left behind some number code
#46This is simply answered by https://www.google.com/search?q=925+8642+37654+627418 The first page results would have answered it already - better than the stackexchange answers quoting random slides: 925 8642 37654 627418 0401473 19223530 486854332 2531971768 85129619450 918546942937 Figure 1: Digit Memory Test by Howard (1983, in Bernstein et al., 2008:215).
"Essentials of Psychology" Douglas A. Bernstein, Peggy W. Nash which is on the net has it (spaced out - "9 2 5") They reference Howard which doesn't seem to be 'available' Here is a test of your immediate memory span (Howard, 1983). Ask someone to read to you the numbers in the top row at the rate of about one per second; then try to repeat them back in the same order. Then try the next row, and the one after that, u…
[can't edit above] Just a confirmation it's in Howard 1983 through Google Books.
But you have to search on the first number of each line "9836014289" because it's a table. This is why the books don't come up directly in search.
Also you can't 'see' it, you just know it's there -
https://books.google.com/books?redir_esc=y&id=ho8QAQAAIAAJ&f...
Re: My mom left behind some number code
#47Just for fun, it would be cool if each of us remembers to take the time to leave at least 1 or 2 little puzzles for our descendants to figure out, as a way to have happier feelings again one last time with you, in a way. My grandpa would totally have done something like this. I remember he showed me a big book of unsolved lost locations of buried treasure, and a related story he read me about a golden key hidden behi…
> I'd totally love to leave a little puzzle for those I love. Maybe this is a good way of reframing my mess of a Home Assistant install. Why does the coffee machine turn on at that time? Why does the ventilation system do that?
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Re: My mom left behind some number code
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Just wait until it has the power to use Google.
I tried it on the you.com chatbot, which has access to search results of your query. Even though it was already spoiled by receiving a link to this thread in which the correct answer is literally listed, it still managed to come up with nonsense:
> The numbers appear to be arranged in an exponential pattern [1], where each number is approximately 2.3 times larger than the previous number. This pattern can be expressed as: n = 2.3^x, where n is the number and x is the index of the number. So for the numbers you provided, the pattern would be: 925 = 2.3^0 8642 = 2.3^2 37654 = 2.3^3 627418 = 2.3^4
Where [1] links to this very hackernews thread.
Re: My mom left behind some number code
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not only would it have been left unanswered, it would have been almost impossible to get an answer even with enormous resources. You could have paid a detective agency millions of dollars and the chance that one of them would stumble upon an obscure memory test containing the numbers would have been slim to none, even with tens of thousands of man-hours dedicated to the task.
Makes me wonder how many man-hours were spent on this now. Surely either it was luck that a person with this knowledge read the question, or an extremely large number of people read the question?
You assume that question could only have been with innate knowledge of the answer. But just by querying a search engine with two of the numbers I was able to get the same link:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22627418%22+%2219223530%22
With DuckDuckGo it is even the only search result for the same two numbers and I didn't even have to quote them:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=627418+19223530
Re: My mom left behind some number code
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I've seen a lot of similar confident but utterly nonsensical responses from ChatGPT. It really comes across as the ultimate con artist. Project confidence and drown people in so many words that they start doubting themselves instead of ChatGPT. We may have taught AI to gaslight us.