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Knuth reward check
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camdenreslink
· 2026-10-11 Sun 02:19 UTC ·
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I wonder if someone has used an LLM yet to analyze Knuth’s books and find errors to inundate him with? Please don’t do that (although I’m sure it’s possible).
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fsckboy
· 2026-10-11 Sun 02:34 UTC ·
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people are up in arms about AI/LLMs now, but I'll bet 50 years ago Knuth would have been excited a about the prospect of algorithms being so capable.
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madcaptenor
· 2026-10-11 Sun 12:43 UTC ·
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Indeed he seems to be excited about it now, after Claude Opus 4.6 solved a problem he'd been working on:
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cyc...
note "now" is April 2026
note "now" is April 2026