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There are only twelve 4x4 sudokus - and a cool trick for finding minimal subsets

A method to enumerate 4x4 Sudoku subsets may aid combinatorial algorithm work.

Heating
Signal score
53
as of 1d ago
Sources
3
agreeing on python
Trajectory
Cooling
7-day est. ~18

Why this scored 53

every term, weighted
Velocity+8.9 / 40

Engagement gained per hour since the last capture, against the fastest item on its own source

Acceleration+18.7 / 25

Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate

Cross-source spread+16.7 / 25

How many independent communities are talking about the same entity

Recency+9.3 / 10

Decays to zero over 14 days

Saturation penalty0.5 / 30

Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked

Composite53.1

Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement, and velocity falls back to engagement over its whole lifetime until a second reading exists. Full methodology

Outlook

low confidence · estimate, not a guarantee

7-day

~18

range 030

14-day

~0

range 015

30-day

~0

range 020

Signal history

7-day window (free)
1876

projected trajectory (estimate, not a guarantee)

Entities

python
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