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Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by kylecazar »

LorenDB wrote: post #22
kylecazar wrote: post #12

Are they going to verify that everyone said their sequence correctly? It would be a silly and pointless prank to derail the effort by omitting a number on purpose, but this is the internet... Or maybe it's just the 'coming together' aspect that we're going for anyway, in which case, it doesn't matter :)

Maybe they could run it through Whisper on Groq? It should be able to process individual clips in about a second.

That's what I was thinking... Compare the assigned chunk text with the output from an LLM transcription.

Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by leononame »

Xcelerate wrote: post #21

Ooh, let’s do this with the Busy Beaver function too. BB(5) is only 12,289 binary digits to say out loud. BB(6) and BB(7) can’t possibly take that much longer to say.

For context, because I had to look it up: For BB(6), Σ(6) is known to be least 10 ↑↑ 15 for in Knuth's up-arrow notation. You can read this as 10^(10 ↑↑ 14) = 10^(10^(10 ↑↑ 13)) and so on. It's much more than just a lot.

Anyone know how many digits this is?

Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by dullcrisp »

leononame wrote: post #32
Xcelerate wrote: post #21

Ooh, let’s do this with the Busy Beaver function too. BB(5) is only 12,289 binary digits to say out loud. BB(6) and BB(7) can’t possibly take that much longer to say.

For context, because I had to look it up: For BB(6), Σ(6) is known to be least 10 ↑↑ 15 for in Knuth's up-arrow notation. You can read this as 10^(10 ↑↑ 14) = 10^(10^(10 ↑↑ 13)) and so on. It's much more than just a lot. Anyone know how many digits this is?

10 ↑↑ 14

Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by dullcrisp »

henearkr wrote: post #23
sigio wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a lot harder to make a mistake in binary mersenne primes, and if you loop your video's, 1 person should be able to do it quickly, so might be a bit boring.

I you allow to replay the videos it's going to be boring anyway, in binary as well as in decimal. For example, in decimal, you can group the digits by pairs, and you just need 100 videos.

Or if you don’t you just need ten videos

Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by netsharc »

bromuro wrote: post #13
sushid wrote: post #8

Some unanswered questions: why in 419 digit chunks? Are there repeating chunks that they're going to dedupe?

Also , how many videos can be added to a playlist in YouTube? +100k seem unlikely.

They want each participant to upload their video on their own channel. It feels like the chances all 100k videos and accounts last even a week is vanishingly small...

Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by dudus »

LorenDB wrote: post #22
kylecazar wrote: post #12

Are they going to verify that everyone said their sequence correctly? It would be a silly and pointless prank to derail the effort by omitting a number on purpose, but this is the internet... Or maybe it's just the 'coming together' aspect that we're going for anyway, in which case, it doesn't matter :)

Maybe they could run it through Whisper on Groq? It should be able to process individual clips in about a second.

Sure and we could also run these LLMs on Arduino s because why not?
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