The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge offers a $20,000 prize for solving a fundamental problem in computational mathematics. While not HR-focused, the challenge's structure demonstrates observable respect for non-discrimination, intellectual property rights, freedom of expression, and economic opportunity, with particular emphasis on advancing scientific knowledge and open intellectual participation.
I don't follow your argument. Why must we have the ability to "delete" sub-expressions?
Consider a computational model that, rather than work by successively rewriting an expression over and over in a way that honors some equivalence relation over expressions, it works by explicitly building the sequence of such expressions. In that kind of system, every computational state properly contains the previous state. Things grow and grow and never get "deleted". Yet such a system can clearly be universal.
That doesn't matter.
You could imagine a system that accumulates two terms: (actual result, junk). Instead of deleting something it just adds it to the junk part of the pair.
Maybe the junk part itself has computation which never ends, but it doesn't matter because you just extract your result from the left part of the pair.
as far as I understand it, turing completeness is a weaker property than combinatorial completeness, which Craig's theorem is addressing. The nonexistence of a singleton combinatorial basis doesn't necessarily imply the nonexistence of a turing complete combinator.
cvoss, ezwoodland, tromp and v64 made a good point. As v64 points I was thinking of a Combinatory Completeness not Turing Completeness. Dropping that requirement as cvoss, ezwoodland, tromp point you can simulate deletion (that's what quantum computing does btw see No-deleting theorem).
I see the endgame now, thanks guys.
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Content strongly advocates for scientific advancement through challenge structure and reference to history of computation
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The entire challenge is devoted to determining whether 'the S combinator on its own [is] computation universal'
Background materials include 'A Modern Introduction to Combinators,' 'Combinators and the Story of Computation,' and 'Combinators: A Centennial View'
The prize is specifically structured to advance scientific understanding of computation theory
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The site actively promotes scientific advancement by creating structured incentive for solving a fundamental problem in computational mathematics and providing historical/educational context
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The guidelines state 'All submissions must be the original work of the submitter(s)'
The guidelines explicitly state 'Submissions remain the property of their submitter(s)'
The page specifies that the submitter 'grants Wolfram the non-exclusive royalty-free right to publish the submission'
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The page states 'The invitation to participate...is extended to everyone'
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The submission requirements state 'All submissions must be the original work of the submitter(s)'
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The page states 'The Wolfram Foundation...is offering $20,000 (US) in prize money'
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The prize guidelines state 'all decisions will be final and binding upon all participants'
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Light evaluated: Neutral (0.00)
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rater_auto_disable
Model llama-4-scout-wai auto-disabled: 5 consecutive parse failures
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Validation failed for model llama-4-scout-wai
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2026-02-26 21:21
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Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge
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dlq
Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge
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DLQ message 1199 replayed: The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge
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dlq
Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge