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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
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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
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Happy birthday, Don Knuth! Great to see you rocking on at the age of 88! #donknuth #dek #computerScience
"My Japanese friends tell me that my birthday this year will be the best. My Brazilian friends tell me that I should celebrate that occasion with tapioca pancakes. (AI can explain this.)"
"(If you're depressed by current world news, you might find some solace by immersing yourself in a bit of research into eternally beautiful patterns.)"
→ quotes of his website
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html -
Happy birthday, Don Knuth! Great to see you rocking on at the age of 88! #donknuth #dek #computerScience
"My Japanese friends tell me that my birthday this year will be the best. My Brazilian friends tell me that I should celebrate that occasion with tapioca pancakes. (AI can explain this.)"
"(If you're depressed by current world news, you might find some solace by immersing yourself in a bit of research into eternally beautiful patterns.)"
→ quotes of his website
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html -
Correspondence Between Don Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on Priority Deques 1977 [pdf]
https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/p.vanemdeboas/knuthnote.pdf
#HackerNews #DonKnuth #PeterVanEmdeBoas #PriorityDeques #1977 #Correspondence #PDF
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Correspondence Between Don Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on Priority Deques 1977 [pdf]
https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/p.vanemdeboas/knuthnote.pdf
#HackerNews #DonKnuth #PeterVanEmdeBoas #PriorityDeques #1977 #Correspondence #PDF