There is a 5% chance that we have a new BB(6) champion! It’s a machine discovered by Racheline which she’s named “Lucy’s Moonlight”. It is a probviously halting tetrational Cryptid. In other words, it’s a machine that we believe will eventually halt (with 100% chance via a probabilistic approximation), yet proving it requires either solving a Collatz-like problem or simulating it for a “tetrational” number of steps. This is very similar to the Mother of Giants with the excepti...| sligocki
According to reports, something lurks in the forests of Vermont. Is there a monster out there? And did this terror, known as “the Awful” inspire H.P. Lovecraft?| Historic Mysteries
The are many monsters in the dark of the night which haunt us. It seems… The post The Body Horror of the Manananggal: Your Worst Nightmare appeared first on Historic Mysteries.| Historic Mysteries
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Consider the Collatz-like function:| sligocki
I’m excited to share a 3 state, 3 symbol Turing Machine that cannot be proven to halt or not (when starting on a blank tape) without solving a Collatz-like problem. Therefore, solving the \(BB(3, 3)\) problem is at least as hard as solving this Collatz-like problem, a class of problem for which Paul Erdős famously said: “Mathematics may not be ready for such problems.”| sligocki