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> Bernard Fabrot spent the last three and a half years computing the solution to a puzzle TacticalCoder last HN comment is from Dec 5, 2015. Checks out. Kudos

by zaat 7y ago

> Bernard Fabrot spent the last three and a half years computing the solution to a puzzle TacticalCoder last HN comment is from Dec 5, 2015. Checks out. Kudos to you, well done!

TacticalCoder 7y ago
I actually thought this might get posted to HN, so I went through a lot of pain to find back a way to get my HN login back (basically had no access to the email with which I opened an account here: I had to dive deep down in some Google Suite tied to a domain name to find a way into the user account and eventually reset my HN password). I'm glad I did in time and didn't miss this thread!
- zaat 7y ago
  Well, you sure seems like the kind of guy who will go through a lot of pain to get quick results. Was this a side project? did it require much attention after the initial setup?
  - TacticalCoder 7y ago
    > Was this a side project? did it require much attention after the initial setup? Totally a side project. It hardly required any attention: just making sure the computation was running and making sure to backup the intermediate results once in a while (I had backups everywhere of the intermediate results: remote servers, USB keys, DVD, other computers at home, email, etc.). I only needed to do a few tiny steps once I found the secret message (which contains a number which allows to compute one of the two prime numbers).
    - zaat 7y ago
      Did you knew for certain that your program will solve the puzzle at some time? Did you have an estimation of the date?
      - TacticalCoder 7y ago
        > Did you knew for certain that your program will solve the puzzle at some time? The description of the problem itself explains a way to verify that intermediate results are correct. > Did you have an estimation of the date? Yes and that one is easy: I wrote a little piece of code (in Clojure, whatever, it's unrelated to finding the solution) which would check at which intermediate result the computation was and then compute an "ETA". Fun story: I'd regularly send my brother something like this... { :time-left-in-years 1.239341704718417 :eta "1 year 2 month(s) 26 day(s)" :percentage-done 0.6284244211583109 } (that's an actual estimate I found in my old emails) : )
- Intermernet 7y ago
  Could have used the world's best 2fa. "I can prove my identity because I have the answer to LCS35". Pretty sure @dang would have accepted that!
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TacticalCoder 7y ago
> TacticalCoder last HN comment is from Dec 5, 2015. Checks out. I didn't realize... Your comment is actually extremely funny: I love it : ) Yeah, it's more or less when I started computing that. This is hilarious.
- comboy 7y ago
  I just want to be a part of this thread. Congrats :)

by zaat 7y ago

> Bernard Fabrot spent the last three and a half years computing the solution to a puzzle TacticalCoder last HN comment is from Dec 5, 2015. Checks out. Kudos to you, well done!

TacticalCoder 7y ago

I actually thought this might get posted to HN, so I went through a lot of pain to find back a way to get my HN login back (basically had no access to the email with which I opened an account here: I had to dive deep down in some Google Suite tied to a domain name to find a way into the user account and eventually reset my HN password). I'm glad I did in time and didn't miss this thread!

zaat 7y ago
Well, you sure seems like the kind of guy who will go through a lot of pain to get quick results. Was this a side project? did it require much attention after the initial setup?
- TacticalCoder 7y ago
  > Was this a side project? did it require much attention after the initial setup? Totally a side project. It hardly required any attention: just making sure the computation was running and making sure to backup the intermediate results once in a while (I had backups everywhere of the intermediate results: remote servers, USB keys, DVD, other computers at home, email, etc.). I only needed to do a few tiny steps once I found the secret message (which contains a number which allows to compute one of the two prime numbers).
  - zaat 7y ago
    Did you knew for certain that your program will solve the puzzle at some time? Did you have an estimation of the date?
    - TacticalCoder 7y ago
      > Did you knew for certain that your program will solve the puzzle at some time? The description of the problem itself explains a way to verify that intermediate results are correct. > Did you have an estimation of the date? Yes and that one is easy: I wrote a little piece of code (in Clojure, whatever, it's unrelated to finding the solution) which would check at which intermediate result the computation was and then compute an "ETA". Fun story: I'd regularly send my brother something like this... { :time-left-in-years 1.239341704718417 :eta "1 year 2 month(s) 26 day(s)" :percentage-done 0.6284244211583109 } (that's an actual estimate I found in my old emails) : )
Intermernet 7y ago
Could have used the world's best 2fa. "I can prove my identity because I have the answer to LCS35". Pretty sure @dang would have accepted that!

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TacticalCoder 7y ago

> TacticalCoder last HN comment is from Dec 5, 2015. Checks out. I didn't realize... Your comment is actually extremely funny: I love it : ) Yeah, it's more or less when I started computing that. This is hilarious.

comboy 7y ago
I just want to be a part of this thread. Congrats :)