#donknuth — 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

Claude's Cycles: Claude Opus 4.6 solves a problem posed by Don Knuth [pdf]

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

#HackerNews #ClaudeCycles #DonKnuth #Opus46 #ProblemSolving #PDF #TechInnovation

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

Dear Donald Knuth!
Happy 87th birthday. Please keep your perseverance to work on #TAOCP and stay healthy!
A fan.
#knuth #donknuth #dek

Donald E. #Knuth — The Grapholinguistic Model of #TeX (interview) 2024-10-24 — “All Questions Answered”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVSuM84SS3M

Q: "What will you do if you receive a bugreport coming from an AI? Will you pay the hexadecimal dollar and to whom?" at mark 55:20

#DonKnuth #TeXLaTeX #AI

Donald E. #Knuth — The Grapholinguistic Model of #TeX (interview) 2024-10-24 — “All Questions Answered”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVSuM84SS3M

"If some illness hits me, I am not gonna be angry about it. I will be thankful for all the good health I had. And while I stay healthy. I am gonna do my best to continue producing more of TAOCP […]" at mark 53:30

#DonKnuth #TeXLaTeX

Today is Don Knuth's 86th birthday. Happy birthday and I wish him health and comfort to finish his #TAOCP series!
#donknuth #DEK #CS

Donald E. Knuth had some fun with #ChatGPT and yes, he was impressed:
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt (he linked the file from his website today) #donknuth #computerscience

Happy birthday, Donald E. Knuth to your 85th birthday! #DonKnuth #knuth #dek #cs #math