2024 has seen more advances in threading and multiprocessing, than processing speed. Value has not markedly increased over older hardware
As such, Geek’s accomplishment’s have been largely recreational. We participated for a time with the “Folding@home distributed computing project.
We took advantage of multiple machines to assist double checking at GIMPS (mersenne.org,) and brought our double checking percentage up from 10% to 50%.
And we entertained ourselves with Python3, doing complicated computations. These have the quality of being difficult to compute, but appearing spectacularly difficult, or impossible.
In 2024, we also renewed our interest in the novelty of Decimal Fermat Expansions. The dimensions became challenging after Fermat 27 (previously shared.) Here are Fermat 28, 29 and 30. We invite anyone interested to check or verify our numbers independently. We speculate that Fermat 32 might be within reach of Computing today (2024,) but it would be a clerical accomplishment to enumerate it.