• Good Morning, Vietnam! Sudoku 2026 Challenge

    From Mild Shock@janburse@fastmail.fm to comp.lang.prolog on Mon Jan 5 12:11:58 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.prolog

    Hi,

    Good Morning Vietnam, the HPC-AI Convergence
    doesn't sleep. Here a friendly reminder of
    the Sudoku leader board (Topn87 Challenge):

    #1: jczsolve / Rust WASM
    Solving 87 Sudokus in 0.006 seconds (0 sec / Sudoku)
    https://emerentius.github.io/sudoku_web/

    #2: Kudoku / JavaScript
    Solving 87 Sudokus in 0.043 seconds (0.0004 sec / Sudoku)
    https://attractivechaos.github.io/plb/kudoku.html

    #3: Picat / import cp. solve([ff],L)
    CPU time 0.175 seconds
    https://picat-lang.org/

    #4: Picat / import sat. solve(L)
    CPU time 0.373 seconds
    https://fmv.jku.at/kissat/

    Tested on Windows 11, with a AMD Ryzen AI 350

    Didn't test yet GNU Prolog, ECLiPSe Prolog or
    Ciao Prolog. So whats next? Well beat #1 by
    tapping into an NPU of Copilot+ PC.

    Have Fun!

    Its Winner Winner Chicken Dinner time again...

    Bye

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  • From Mild Shock@janburse@fastmail.fm to comp.lang.prolog on Sat Jan 10 02:38:10 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.prolog

    Hi,

    No joke, I have a new CLP heuristic coded,
    and made a blind test. Explaind to the AI
    what I coded, but not how coded it,

    omitted the crucial scoring function, and
    the AI was exactly proposing this scoring
    funcion out of the blue.

    I was quite bamboozled. The AI could not tell
    me how it recalled or halucinated the formula,
    I spent like 1-2 hours trying to find a

    precedent paper. Will blog about it later.
    So whats going on . Why can AI suddently
    propose Heuristics. Because they are now

    differently trained:

    Phase 1: Early LLMs (~2018rCo2020)
    Phase 2: LLMs with Prompted Reasoning (~2020rCo2022)
    Phase 3: Scaling & Reasoning Engineering (~2023rCo2025)

    Training an AI to look for heuristics,
    can help in self programming. The generative
    part of the AI would generate some code,

    which then the AI would use for itself. See also:

    How it started:

    AI for Low-Code for AI
    Nikitha Rao, Jason Tsay, Kiran Kate,
    Vincent J. Hellendoorn, Martin Hirzel - 2023
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.20015

    How its going:

    Successor-Generator Planning with LLM-generated Heuristics
    Alexander Tuisov1, Yonatan Vernik2,
    Alexander Shleyfman - 2024
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18784v4

    Bye

    Mild Shock schrieb:
    Hi,

    Good Morning Vietnam, the HPC-AI Convergence
    doesn't sleep. Here a friendly reminder of
    the Sudoku leader board (Topn87 Challenge):

    #1: jczsolve / Rust WASM
    -a-a-a Solving 87 Sudokus in 0.006 seconds (0 sec / Sudoku)
    -a-a-a https://emerentius.github.io/sudoku_web/

    #2: Kudoku / JavaScript
    -a-a-a Solving 87 Sudokus in 0.043 seconds (0.0004 sec / Sudoku)
    -a-a-a https://attractivechaos.github.io/plb/kudoku.html

    #3: Picat / import cp. solve([ff],L)
    -a-a-a CPU time 0.175 seconds
    -a-a-a https://picat-lang.org/

    #4: Picat / import sat. solve(L)
    -a-a-a CPU time 0.373 seconds
    -a-a-a https://fmv.jku.at/kissat/

    Tested on Windows 11, with a AMD Ryzen AI 350

    Didn't test yet GNU Prolog, ECLiPSe Prolog or
    Ciao Prolog. So whats next? Well beat #1 by
    tapping into an NPU of Copilot+ PC.

    Have Fun!

    Its Winner Winner Chicken Dinner time again...

    Bye


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  • From Mild Shock@janburse@fastmail.fm to comp.lang.prolog on Sat Jan 10 03:02:49 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.prolog

    Hi,

    How to spot a failed coping with AI?
    Very easy, if somebody starts some gibberish
    about consciousness you can be sure he is clueless:

    Are AI minds genuine minds?
    A genuine mind is typically associated with
    consciousness, self-awareness, intentionality,
    and the capacity to experience mental states such as emotions. https://events.rice.edu/event/416255-moshe-vardi-world-logic-day-lecture

    What will be Moshe Vardi conclusion nowadays,
    that self programming is a first form of
    inner monologue? Well I guess the GPUs have

    termal activity either way, who cares?

    LoL

    Bye

    P.S.: Just observe how clever Alan Turing was:
    He writes near the beginning of the paper:

    rCLI propose to consider the question, rCyCan machines
    think?rCO This should begin with definitions of the
    meaning of the terms rCymachinerCO and rCythink.rCOrCY

    To avoid endless philosophical debate, he replaces
    it with the imitation game.

    Key points:
    - Word usage rCo Turing does not use the word rCLconsciousnessrCY
    in the paper as a criterion for the test.

    - Intent rCo He wanted to sidestep debates about
    inner experience and focus on observable behavior.

    - Later interpretations rCo Many later philosophers
    and AI critics have connected the Turing Test to
    questions of consciousness, but this is a re-
    interpretation or extension of TuringrCOs original proposal.

    So, while the Turing Test is often brought into
    discussions of machine consciousness, Turing himself
    did not mention it in that context in his 1950 paper.

    Mild Shock schrieb:
    Hi,

    No joke, I have a new CLP heuristic coded,
    and made a blind test. Explaind to the AI
    what I coded, but not how coded it,

    omitted the crucial scoring function, and
    the AI was exactly proposing this scoring
    funcion out of the blue.

    I was quite bamboozled. The AI could not tell
    me how it recalled or halucinated the formula,
    I spent like 1-2 hours trying to find a

    precedent paper. Will blog about it later.
    So whats going on . Why can AI suddently
    propose Heuristics. Because they are now

    differently trained:

    Phase 1: Early LLMs (~2018rCo2020)
    Phase 2: LLMs with Prompted Reasoning (~2020rCo2022)
    Phase 3: Scaling & Reasoning Engineering (~2023rCo2025)

    Training an AI to look for heuristics,
    can help in self programming. The generative
    part of the AI would generate some code,

    which then the AI would use for itself. See also:

    How it started:

    AI for Low-Code for AI
    Nikitha Rao, Jason Tsay, Kiran Kate,
    Vincent J. Hellendoorn, Martin Hirzel - 2023
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.20015

    How its going:

    Successor-Generator Planning with LLM-generated Heuristics
    Alexander Tuisov1, Yonatan Vernik2,
    Alexander Shleyfman - 2024
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18784v4

    Bye

    Mild Shock schrieb:
    Hi,

    Good Morning Vietnam, the HPC-AI Convergence
    doesn't sleep. Here a friendly reminder of
    the Sudoku leader board (Topn87 Challenge):

    #1: jczsolve / Rust WASM
    -a-a-a-a Solving 87 Sudokus in 0.006 seconds (0 sec / Sudoku)
    -a-a-a-a https://emerentius.github.io/sudoku_web/

    #2: Kudoku / JavaScript
    -a-a-a-a Solving 87 Sudokus in 0.043 seconds (0.0004 sec / Sudoku)
    -a-a-a-a https://attractivechaos.github.io/plb/kudoku.html

    #3: Picat / import cp. solve([ff],L)
    -a-a-a-a CPU time 0.175 seconds
    -a-a-a-a https://picat-lang.org/

    #4: Picat / import sat. solve(L)
    -a-a-a-a CPU time 0.373 seconds
    -a-a-a-a https://fmv.jku.at/kissat/

    Tested on Windows 11, with a AMD Ryzen AI 350

    Didn't test yet GNU Prolog, ECLiPSe Prolog or
    Ciao Prolog. So whats next? Well beat #1 by
    tapping into an NPU of Copilot+ PC.

    Have Fun!

    Its Winner Winner Chicken Dinner time again...

    Bye



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  • From Mild Shock@janburse@fastmail.fm to comp.lang.prolog on Sat Jan 10 03:20:28 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.prolog

    Hi,

    Now replace "machine" by "bioform", and "think"
    by "life" in the Turing Test, and you get the
    Gladiator Test. The judgement is not by a single

    counterpart behind a teletype, but a crowd,
    we could invoke the image of a Hollywood thumbs-up or
    thumbs-down gesture as signalling a yes or no.

    Source:

    Adrian Tchaikovsky
    Dogs of War
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_of_War_(2017_novel)

    How TchaikovskyrCOs deepens the Turing Analogy

    - From "Can it think?" to "Does it suffer? Does
    it deserve to live?" TuringrCOs test is about cognitive
    performance. The bioformsrCO struggle is about moral
    standing. Their "Turing Test" isnrCOt to prove
    intelligence (they are clearly intelligent), but
    to prove consciousness, sentience, and intrinsic
    value to a society that legally defines them as "equipment."

    - The Crowd is the Global Public & Legal System
    In the novel, the "crowd" isn't just a Roman audiencerCoit's
    the court of public opinion, international law, media,
    and corporate boardrooms. The question is whether this
    "crowd" will show mercy (granting personhood) or
    condemn them to remain weapons.

    Etc.. Etc..

    Have Fun!

    Bye

    Mild Shock schrieb:
    Hi,

    How to spot a failed coping with AI?
    Very easy, if somebody starts some gibberish
    about consciousness you can be sure he is clueless:

    Are AI minds genuine minds?
    A genuine mind is typically associated with
    consciousness, self-awareness, intentionality,
    and the capacity to experience mental states such as emotions. https://events.rice.edu/event/416255-moshe-vardi-world-logic-day-lecture

    What will be Moshe Vardi conclusion nowadays,
    that self programming is a first form of
    inner monologue? Well I guess the GPUs have

    termal activity either way, who cares?

    LoL

    Bye

    P.S.: Just observe how clever Alan Turing was:
    He writes near the beginning of the paper:

    rCLI propose to consider the question, rCyCan machines
    think?rCO This should begin with definitions of the
    meaning of the terms rCymachinerCO and rCythink.rCOrCY

    To avoid endless philosophical debate, he replaces
    it with the imitation game.

    Key points:
    - Word usage rCo Turing does not use the word rCLconsciousnessrCY
    in the paper as a criterion for the test.

    - Intent rCo He wanted to sidestep debates about
    inner experience and focus on observable behavior.

    - Later interpretations rCo Many later philosophers
    and AI critics have connected the Turing Test to
    questions of consciousness, but this is a re-
    interpretation or extension of TuringrCOs original proposal.

    So, while the Turing Test is often brought into
    discussions of machine consciousness, Turing himself
    did not mention it in that context in his 1950 paper.

    Mild Shock schrieb:
    Hi,

    No joke, I have a new CLP heuristic coded,
    and made a blind test. Explaind to the AI
    what I coded, but not how coded it,

    omitted the crucial scoring function, and
    the AI was exactly proposing this scoring
    funcion out of the blue.

    I was quite bamboozled. The AI could not tell
    me how it recalled or halucinated the formula,
    I spent like 1-2 hours trying to find a

    precedent paper. Will blog about it later.
    So whats going on . Why can AI suddently
    propose Heuristics. Because they are now

    differently trained:

    Phase 1: Early LLMs (~2018rCo2020)
    Phase 2: LLMs with Prompted Reasoning (~2020rCo2022)
    Phase 3: Scaling & Reasoning Engineering (~2023rCo2025)

    Training an AI to look for heuristics,
    can help in self programming. The generative
    part of the AI would generate some code,

    which then the AI would use for itself. See also:

    How it started:

    AI for Low-Code for AI
    Nikitha Rao, Jason Tsay, Kiran Kate,
    Vincent J. Hellendoorn, Martin Hirzel - 2023
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.20015

    How its going:

    Successor-Generator Planning with LLM-generated Heuristics
    Alexander Tuisov1, Yonatan Vernik2,
    Alexander Shleyfman - 2024
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18784v4

    Bye

    Mild Shock schrieb:
    Hi,

    Good Morning Vietnam, the HPC-AI Convergence
    doesn't sleep. Here a friendly reminder of
    the Sudoku leader board (Topn87 Challenge):

    #1: jczsolve / Rust WASM
    -a-a-a-a Solving 87 Sudokus in 0.006 seconds (0 sec / Sudoku)
    -a-a-a-a https://emerentius.github.io/sudoku_web/

    #2: Kudoku / JavaScript
    -a-a-a-a Solving 87 Sudokus in 0.043 seconds (0.0004 sec / Sudoku)
    -a-a-a-a https://attractivechaos.github.io/plb/kudoku.html

    #3: Picat / import cp. solve([ff],L)
    -a-a-a-a CPU time 0.175 seconds
    -a-a-a-a https://picat-lang.org/

    #4: Picat / import sat. solve(L)
    -a-a-a-a CPU time 0.373 seconds
    -a-a-a-a https://fmv.jku.at/kissat/

    Tested on Windows 11, with a AMD Ryzen AI 350

    Didn't test yet GNU Prolog, ECLiPSe Prolog or
    Ciao Prolog. So whats next? Well beat #1 by
    tapping into an NPU of Copilot+ PC.

    Have Fun!

    Its Winner Winner Chicken Dinner time again...

    Bye




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  • From Mild Shock@janburse@fastmail.fm to comp.lang.prolog on Sat Jan 10 17:19:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.prolog

    Hi,

    This is a brief description of a project that
    has already autoformalized a large portion of
    the general topology from the Munkres textbook
    (which has in total 241 pages in 7 chapters
    and 39 sections).

    The proof checker is Chad Brown's higher-order
    set theory system Megalodon, and the core library
    is Brown's formalization of basic set theory
    and surreal numbers (including reals, etc).
    The rest is some prompt engineering and
    technical choices which we describe here.

    130k Lines of Formal Topology in Two Weeks
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03298

    Is this the end to the mess, of the same
    theorem proved with proof assistant A, but
    using set theory, and also proved with proof
    assistant B, but using type theory.

    How malleable are LLM generated proofs?

    Bye

    Mild Shock schrieb:
    Hi,

    Good Morning Vietnam, the HPC-AI Convergence
    doesn't sleep. Here a friendly reminder of
    the Sudoku leader board (Topn87 Challenge):

    #1: jczsolve / Rust WASM
    -a-a-a Solving 87 Sudokus in 0.006 seconds (0 sec / Sudoku)
    -a-a-a https://emerentius.github.io/sudoku_web/

    #2: Kudoku / JavaScript
    -a-a-a Solving 87 Sudokus in 0.043 seconds (0.0004 sec / Sudoku)
    -a-a-a https://attractivechaos.github.io/plb/kudoku.html

    #3: Picat / import cp. solve([ff],L)
    -a-a-a CPU time 0.175 seconds
    -a-a-a https://picat-lang.org/

    #4: Picat / import sat. solve(L)
    -a-a-a CPU time 0.373 seconds
    -a-a-a https://fmv.jku.at/kissat/

    Tested on Windows 11, with a AMD Ryzen AI 350

    Didn't test yet GNU Prolog, ECLiPSe Prolog or
    Ciao Prolog. So whats next? Well beat #1 by
    tapping into an NPU of Copilot+ PC.

    Have Fun!

    Its Winner Winner Chicken Dinner time again...

    Bye


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