minus-squareembed_me@programming.devtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Donald Knuth describes his shock and joy upon learning that Claude successfully solved an open combinatorial problem he had been researching for a future volume of The Art of Computer Programming.linkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 days agoA computer implies a certain degree of determinism. i.e. whatever it can do, a human has programmed it to do. Except for speeding up calculations (simulations), it didn’t aid in a somewhat creative and direct manner like this. linkfedilink
minus-squareembed_me@programming.devtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Donald Knuth describes his shock and joy upon learning that Claude successfully solved an open combinatorial problem he had been researching for a future volume of The Art of Computer Programming.linkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·6 days agoOk I for one was not expecting anything useful to come out of these tools linkfedilink
A computer implies a certain degree of determinism. i.e. whatever it can do, a human has programmed it to do. Except for speeding up calculations (simulations), it didn’t aid in a somewhat creative and direct manner like this.