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A real-world high-value breakthrough in physics would be to find some substantially cheaper (than the giant tokamak approach) arrangement of matter that can create sustained nuclear fusion with energy out to energy in factors over 10, which can also feasibly be built within a decade or two.

Advances in astrophysics or fundamental models are all very cool but won't be of much real-world applicability, at least in the short or medium term.

This is a neat puzzle but you really don't need prolog. Spend a couple minutes thinking about it and you can solve this just fine.

Your question: It just means they have both green shoes and clothes, probably.

It's aimed to confuse a model with a bunch of information you-just-don't-really-need. The trick is to fish out which hints are more important than others. The order in which you apply them matters to make the puzzle easy vs. very hard. Which things give you the most amount of 'useful' information?

Call the people p1 to p5 (p5 oldest, p1 youngest).

Start with (15). This identifies the total age as 35+51. Now combine in (14), and you have 51 - 24 = 27 remaining years. This means the 35-yo is the oldest person, p5 = 35. Now add in the interesting thing that D = B+5. If you know that there is 27 years left to give to the two unknowns, B can't be 30 (or, D can't be p5). That means that D is 17 and B is 12 or D is 12 and B is 7.

This leaves three possible answers for the list of ages. Two of these are 7, 12, 12, 20, 35, or 10,12,12,17,35. The third one involves the case where the people other than the 12-year-olds and the 35-year-old are 5 years apart, in which case they can only be 11 and 16.

Combining all the 'stands-next-to' information (including point 2 which means D is to the right of B), we have eight possible orders: (AB)E(CD) or (AB)(CD)E. The last set of four is the only valid possible one as we know that D is not the eldest, which means E is 35. If the order is BADCE then B=7, A&D are 12, C=20, E=35. If the order is ABCDE then A=10,B=12,C=12,D=17,E=35 There's also the possibility that the 27 is made up of B and A (BACDE) are 11 and 16, and you are left with B=11,A=12,C=12,D=16,E=35. There is the possibility of the order being ABEDC. However, this carries no real consequences other than the clothing and shoes needing to be shuffled later. There's still only one possible value for the age of D. I'll leave the explanation for that variant out of the rest of the solution, the logic is roughly the same just with the clothes and country all juggled up.

Now one thing that's kind of unclear though is point (15). "One Adult". You'd need the definition of 'adult' to be a bit more precise (varies by country!), and also what kind of English is used to know if this implies there are at least 2 adults. If it does, then there is only one answer: D is always 12, since you need the 20-year-old to exist to have more than one adult.

If not, then D could be either 12 or 16 or 17, so the answer (so far) is 12x16x17 = 204x16=1224.

Now let's deal with the clothing, country, and shoes. All we need is that A is from Morocco, and that the second person is from South Africa. You can't simultaneously be from both places, which means A can't be in the second position.

That also clears up the ambiguity whether the 17 year old is an adult here (apparently they are), so that leaves only one possible combination: A,B,C,D,E, being 10,12,12,17,35. The answer to the question is 17.

Bonus: There's some extra stuff about countries and clothes: we have to check if there exist a valid solution that will fit with our one test. You could assume that the puzzle has an answer, but sneakily: that answer could be zero. If there are no solutions, there are no possible ages C could have, and so the answer is zero (or 1,depending on how you interpret the math of multiplying the empty set) . Here's one order that's possible (there's more, I'll leave it as an exercise to find the others):

Person: Country, Clothes, Shoes A(10): Morocco, Unknown, Red, B(12): South Africa, White, Orange C(12): Chile, Blue, Yellow D(17): Unknown, Green, Green E(35): Vanuatu, Yellow, Teal

(6) is the only point that's maybe a bit debatable? It's not true since the person wearing the teal shoes IS from vanuatu.

If this isn't valid solution for (6)... then there are no solutions, and the answer is actually 0. I'd go with 17 though, it seems fine.

The issue I'm facing with this newer batch of larger models is trying to make longer contexts work. Is there a way to do so with sub-48GB GPUs without having to do CPU BLAS? If mistral-123B is already restricted to 60K context on a 24GB gpu (with zero layers being GPUfied and all other apps closed), and llama-405B being somewhere around 2-3x the KV cache size, even an A100 wouldn't be enough to fit 128K tokens of KV.

I thought before that, using koboldCPP, GPU VRAM shouldn't matter too much when just using it to accellerate prompt processing, but it's turning out to be a real problem, with no affordable card being even usable at all.

It's the difference between processing 50K tokens in 30 minutes vs. taking 24 hours or more to get a single response, from 'barely usable' to 'utterly unusable'.

CPU generation is fine, ~half a token per second is not great, but it's doable. Though I sometimes feel more and more like cutting off responses and finishing them myself if a good idea pops up in one.

It is not a cargo cult if you use methods that are more difficult. Can a LLM figure this one out?

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How about this one?

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Obfuscation can be as obscure as you want it to be. If you invent your own no spammer will take the trouble to figure it out. Then again... not many readers will either.