I read this paper about most research findings being false. Given that most research papers in SAT take a sample size that is incredibly small (especially considering that it’s cheap to have large sample sizes relative to, e.g. medical trials), and the samples are very often hand-picked, it’s easy to see why this could be the case. But that article lists a number of other factors, too, and they are interesting to consider as well. Only few true innovations stick around in SAT (glues, VSIDS, UIP, restarts, etc). Most are forgotten because, frankly, they didn’t show the promise they purported to have. It’d be interesting to force authors to e.g. run their systems on much larger sample sizes (e.g. 2-3000 instances from SAT competitions) with much longer timeouts (e.g. 5000s). Then those implementing SAT solvers wouldn’t have to wade through piles of articles to get to something worth implementing. One is allowed to dream.

A new version of CryptoMiniSat, 5.0.1 has been released. It is essentially only a release to mark the move to a much more permissive, MIT license. I am changing the license so that everyone can use the system as they wish, however they wish. I want to give back to the community I have been part of for so long, and so I am making this change. Thank you all for using the solver, it makes me happy that I have been able to help some with my hobby work.