#donaldknuth — Public Fediverse posts

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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

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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

@jbz

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

@shaknais

Yes, Donald Knuth is a hero and a true renaissance man, and his TeX is an unsurpased achievement, a tool of lasting value.

Back in 1996 I took a few months off for an in-depth study of Knuth's TeX: tokens and boxes and output routines and all. I used plain TeX to write a flexible little macro package for myself, with a minimalist input syntax, set up for my own writing, tailored to my own writing needs.

I still use that same package today, 30 years later, unchanged except for project-specific adjustments. All the materials I give to my students are written in that package, all my papers. A stable writing framework for a lifetime. Few other systems have such stability and power. Thank you, Donald Knuth.

#DonaldKnuth #plainTeX #WritingTools

Discovering Errors in Donald Knuth's Taocp — https://glthr.com/discovering-errors-in-donald-knuths-taocp
#HackerNews #DiscoveringErrors #DonaldKnuth #Taocp #ProgrammingHistory #TechErrors #ComputerScience

Discovering Errors in Donald Knuth's Taocp — https://glthr.com/discovering-errors-in-donald-knuths-taocp
#HackerNews #DiscoveringErrors #DonaldKnuth #Taocp #ProgrammingHistory #TechErrors #ComputerScience

Discovering Errors in Donald Knuth's Taocp — https://glthr.com/discovering-errors-in-donald-knuths-taocp
#HackerNews #DiscoveringErrors #DonaldKnuth #Taocp #ProgrammingHistory #TechErrors #ComputerScience

Discovering Errors in Donald Knuth's Taocp — https://glthr.com/discovering-errors-in-donald-knuths-taocp
#HackerNews #DiscoveringErrors #DonaldKnuth #Taocp #ProgrammingHistory #TechErrors #ComputerScience

Preparing tomorrow's workshop at @ANRT with @Ludi @AntoineGelgon and @eugbidaut and going back to
"Lessons Learned from #Metafont by #DonaldKnuth and this incredible erratic and beautiful attemps to draw numbers in 1977.
#typography #MetaFont #TeX

Happy birthday #DonaldKnuth! 🥳🎉

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

#ComputerScience #ComputerScientists #Mathematicians

Yes, it is – it has been a very rewarding experience:

“Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP Worth The Time And Effort? (2023)”, Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38443668).

#HackerNews #Knuth #DonaldKnuth #TAOCP #TheArtOfComputerProgramming #Books #Classics #ComputerScience #AskHN

#DonaldKnuth's #20QuestionsForAI and what they reveal about how far #AI has come and has yet to go.

https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt

#AISkepticism

Donald Knuth: It's really important to be precise, here's 391 pages on sorting.

Also Donald Knuth: H places the float at precisely the location in the LaTeX code. This is somewhat equivalent to h!.

#tex #latex #knuth #donaldknuth #taocp