@noamzoam

What a lovely letter: informative, rich in connections, kind.

My love for this kind & gentle man of genius is unbounded.

#DonaldKnuth

“There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.”
#DonaldKnuth on software patents
@blp @epu I would love to meet #DonaldKnuth and am a huge fan of his sorting algorithm (and apply it IRL all the time, not just programmatically).

“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.

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.

#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
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

[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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#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