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This video will not go out until early next week but last night I filmed a thing with James Grime, Robin Houston and Helen Arney.

After the new record-breaking n=7 superpermutation of length 5,907 was left as a comment on my recent video: Robin Houston (guy from my video) and Greg Egan (science fiction author) were able build on the new techniques and found a n=7 superpetmutation of only 5,906. Which is amazing.

They agreed to let me announce it in a ridiculous way of my choosing. So we turned it into a midi file and I hired a self-playing grand piano. Last night it was official ‘published’ by way of piano performance.

Greg has since tweeted about the finding and the grand announcement: http://twitter.com/gregeganSF/status/1101971885716209664

I’m going to keep quiet about it until the video goes live in about a week, which will be the large-scale release of the finding to the wider public. So don’t ruin the surprise. But for those who are actively involved in superpetmutation work, after a delay of a few days while I found a piano, Greg’s result is now is being examined by the community: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/superpermutators/Ya-H_wwt_HY