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“Two esoteric programming events bubbled up this past week. If you’re not into #computerScience, they may appear irrelevant to you. They’re not. The arcane managed to bring to life our pressing questions about whether #AI can create or is a regurgitation machine.” https://reviews.ofb.biz/sa1401

#DonaldKnuth #Claude #Chardet #Python #Creativity #PromptEngineering #Philosophy

Photocopier No More: The Reckoning with AI Creativity Has Arrived

Two esoteric programming events bubbled up this past week. If you’re not into computer science, they may appear irrelevant to you. They’re not. The arcane managed to bring to life our pressing questions about whether AI can create or is a regurgitation machine.

Timothy R. Butler Mar 10

Two #AI-related events over the past week — the #Chardet licensing controversy and legendary computer scientist #DonKnuth's shock over AI helping discover a theorem for a problem he'd not yet solved — demand a reckoning: precisely how creative is AI? https://reviews.ofb.biz/sa1401

#Creativity #Licensing #OpenSource #Python #DonaldKnuth #TAOCP #Claude

Photocopier No More: The Reckoning with AI Creativity Has Arrived

Two esoteric programming events bubbled up this past week. If you’re not into computer science, they may appear irrelevant to you. They’re not. The arcane managed to bring to life our pressing questions about whether AI can create or is a regurgitation machine.

Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱 ☮🕊️Mar 4

#DonaldKnuth : « Je suis sous le choc » : l’ #IA #Claude a résolu un casse-tête #mathématique sur lequel butait cette #légende de l’ #informatique www.numerama.com/tech/2193965...

Cette légende de l'informatiqu...

Cette légende de l'informatique séchait sur un casse-tête mathématique : l'IA Claude l'a résolu en une heure et l'a laissée « sous le choc »

L'informaticien Donald Knuth, lauréat du prix Turing, pensait que l'IA avait encore de grandes limites. Pourtant, le modèle Claude d'Anthropic vient de réussir à résoudre un problème mathématique ardu sur lequel le chercheur séchait. Une percée inattendue qui prouve que l'IA devient un sacré partenaire pour les

Numerama

Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱☮🕊️Mar 4

#DonaldKnuth :
« Je suis sous le choc » : l’ #IA #Claude a résolu un casse-tête #mathématique sur lequel butait cette #légende de l’ #informatique

https://www.numerama.com/tech/2193965-je-suis-sous-le-choc-lia-claude-a-resolu-un-casse-tete-mathematique-sur-lequel-butait-cette-legende-de-linformatique.html

Cette légende de l'informatique séchait sur un casse-tête mathématique : l'IA Claude l'a résolu en une heure et l'a laissée « sous le choc »

L'informaticien Donald Knuth, lauréat du prix Turing, pensait que l'IA avait encore de grandes limites. Pourtant, le modèle Claude d'Anthropic vient de réussir à résoudre un problème mathématique ardu sur lequel le chercheur séchait. Une percée inattendue qui prouve que l'IA devient un sacré partenaire pour les

Numerama

sayzard Mar 3

[도널드 커누스(Donald Knuth), Claude Opus 4.6이 미해결 조합론 문제를 해결한 과정을 논문으로 공개

도널드 커누스가 Claude Opus 4.6이 미해결 조합론 문제를 해결한 과정을 논문으로 공개했습니다. Claude는 31번의 Python 스크립트 실행과 자체 피드백 루프를 통해 해밀토니안 사이클 분해 문제를 해결했습니다. 커누스는 AI의 자동 연역과 창의적 문제 해결 능력에 대해 긍정적인 평가를 내렸습니다.

https://news.hada.io/topic?id=27176

#ai #computerscience #combinatorics #claudopus #donaldknuth

도널드 커누스(Donald Knuth), Claude Opus 4.6이 미해결 조합론 문제를 해결한 과정을 논문으로 공개

<h4>핵심 요약</h4> <ul> <li>'컴퓨터 프로그래밍의 예술(TAOCP)'의 저자인 컴퓨터 과학자 도널드 커누스가 최신 AI 모델 'Claude Opus 4.6'이 자...

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Token Sane Person Mar 3

#DonaldKnuth beaten by #AI.

> Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6 [...] It seems that I’ll have to revise my opinions about “generative AI” one of these days. What a joy it is to learn not only that my conjecture has a nice solution but also to celebrate this dramatic advance in automatic deduction and creative problem solving.

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf

WIST Quotations Jan 28

A quotation from Donald Knuth

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Donald E. Knuth (b. 1938) American computer scientist, mathematician, academic
Essay (1996), “Foreword” to Marko Petkovsek, Herbert Wilf and Doron Zeilberger, A = B (1996)

More about this quote: wist.info/knuth-donald-e/81691…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #knuth #donaldknuth #art #computer #explanation #programming #science #understanding #artificialintelligence

Knuth, Donald E. - Essay (1996), "Foreword" to Marko Petkovsek, Herbert Wilf and Doron Zeilberger, A = B (1996) | WIST Quotations

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

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Jason Yip Jan 19

"[T]he designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual...If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important."

Oh, what a wonderful background narrative by the man Aho himself, thank you for the link.

And it's good to see Donald Knuth coming up, with his LALR algorithm and his always-pertinent practice-theory maxim.

#AlfredVainoAho #lex #YACC #DonaldKnuth

Adhidarma Hadiwinoto

Dec 28

Ingat, tidak ada konfigurasi atau optimasi yang optimal yang berlaku untuk semua situasi. Masing-masing sistem harus di-optimasi sesuai dengan tujuan dan situasi. Lakukan optimasi setelah melihat stats yang berjalan.

Kalau kata #DonaldKnuth:

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil"