un admirador de Uruguay ⁂8h ago
El universo obra de formas misteriosas: En 1978 #Knuth iba a pasar un sabático aprendiendo #español en 🇨🇱, pero tuvo la oportunidad de trabajar en un sistema digital de impresión, que a la postre le llevaría a crear #TeX. ¡Menos mal que lo hizo! ¡No me lo imagino diciendo *weon *al final de sus enunciados! 🤣 🤣
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Kadin3d ago

I've read a couple of breathless articles about Donald #Knuth's use of #LLM systems, and found (unsurprisingly) that he has a paper about it, if you prefer your news without someone else's hot takes:

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

(Sidebar: apparently he's working on *another* volume of #TAOCP? Good lord. I still haven't worked through the exercises in Vol. 1.)

#AI #Programming #ComputerScience

Show threadRamesh #NotGoingBack4d ago

⬆️ @vij

>> Legendary CS prof Knuth: “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”

Sounds like #Knuth is saying there is a there there 🤔

Hacker News5d ago

Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem

https://twitter.com/BoWang87/status/2037648937453232504

#HackerNews #Further #human #AI #proof #assistant #Knuth #Claude #Cycles

Bo Wang (@BoWang87) on X

Three weeks ago I shared that Claude had shocked Prof. Donald Knuth by finding an odd-m construction for his open Hamiltonian decomposition problem in about an hour of guided exploration. Prof. Knuth titled the paper Claude’s Cycles. The story didn't end there. The updated

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LangerJanMar 10

Okay, I have to ask first and google then:

Has anyone *ever* ported #DOOM to Donald #Knuth​s #MMIX machine?

I think he deserves to see that.

vyMar 7

Knuth's merge-sort in C. Definitely in the style of mathematician programming.

https://www.yodaiken.com/2024/01/24/kuths-merge-sort-in-c/

#Clanguage #programming #knuth #mergesort

Kuth’s Merge Sort in C – keeping simple

Veit SchieleMar 7
Donald Knuth is quite enthusiastic about his recent experiences with generative AI: https://cusy.io/en/blog/knuth-claudes-cycles.html
#Knuth #GenAI #AI #Claude #Anthropic
Don Knuth names his latest work after Claude.ai

Veit Schiele 7 March 2026 3–4 minutes Donald Knuth at a reception for the Open Content Alliance © Jacob Appelbaum, ‘Shock! Shock!’ – with these words, Donald Knuth, Turing Award winner, creator of ...

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Glyn MoodyMar 5
Donald #Knuth, the godfather of computer science, says an #AI solved a math problem he was stuck on for weeks - https://boingboing.net/2026/03/03/donald-knuth-the-godfather-of-computer-science-says-an-ai-solved-a-math-problem-he-was-stuck-on-for-weeks.html good use
Donald Knuth, the godfather of computer science, says an AI solved a math problem he was stuck on for weeks

Donald Knuth, 88, published "Claude's Cycles" celebrating an AI that solved a problem he'd been stuck on for weeks.

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草野貴之 (Kusano Takayuki)Mar 5
先日出たペーパーの解説 リトで参照する #AI #knuth #rito.blue

コンピュータ科学の神様が「AIに負けた」日 — Donald...
リト - コンピュータ科学の神様が「AIに負けた」日 — Donald Knuth『Claude's Cycles』を読み解く - Qiita

引用元:qiita.com | はじめに：「Shock! Shock!」 2026年2月28日、コンピュータ科学の世界に小さな衝撃が走った。 Donald Knuth（ドナルド・クヌース）が新しい論文を公開した。タイトルは「Claude's Cycles」。冒頭の一言はこうだ。 "Shock! Sho...

Dorian Santner 🇦🇹Mar 4

"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.",
Donald #Knuth (2026-03-02)

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