Sujet : Re: Don Knuth on the superb capability of Claude Opus 4.6
De : ross.a.finlayson (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Ross Finlayson)
Groupes : comp.theory sci.logic sci.math comp.ai.philosophyDate : 07. Mar 2026, 05:52:48
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On 03/06/2026 08:34 PM, olcott wrote:
On 3/3/2026 11:59 PM, Jeff Barnett wrote:
> https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf
>
Claude’s Cycles
Don Knuth, Stanford Computer Science Department
(28 February 2026; revised 04 March 2026)
>
Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d
been working on for several weeks had just been solved by
Claude Opus 4.6— Anthropic’s hybrid reasoning model that
had been released three weeks earlier! It seems that I’ll
have to revise my opinions about “generative AI” one of
these days. What a joy it is to learn not only that my
conjecture has a nice solution but also to celebrate this
dramatic advance in automatic deduction and creative problem
solving. I’ll try to tell the story briefly in this note.
>
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR9Oe5YEASM
>
>
Yeah, last month a high schooler found a simple inductive
argument to "dis-prove" half of the offshoots of the Langlands
program. The geometric part, ....
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| 5 Mar 26 |  Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 6 | | Ross Finlayson |
| 5 Mar 26 |   Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 1 | | Ross Finlayson |
| 5 Mar 26 |   Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 4 | | Tristan Wibberley |
| 6 Mar 26 |    Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 3 | | Ross Finlayson |
| 7 Mar 26 |     Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 2 | | Tristan Wibberley |
| 7 Mar 26 |      Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 1 | | Ross Finlayson |
| 6 Mar 26 |  Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 38 | | Mikko |
| 6 Mar 26 |   Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 30 | | olcott |
| 6 Mar 26 |    Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 3 | | olcott |
| 6 Mar 26 |     Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 2 | | Ross Finlayson |
| 6 Mar 26 |      Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 1 | | olcott |
| 7 Mar 26 |    Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 4 | | Tristan Wibberley |
| 7 Mar 26 |     Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 2 | | olcott |
| 7 Mar 26 |      Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 1 | | Ross Finlayson |
| 7 Mar 26 |     Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 1 | | Ross Finlayson |
| 7 Mar 26 |    Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 22 | | Mikko |
| 7 Mar 26 |     Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 13 | | olcott |
| 7 Mar 26 |      Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 2 | | Tristan Wibberley |
| 7 Mar 26 |       Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 1 | | olcott |
| 8 Mar 26 |      Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 10 | | Mikko |
| 8 Mar 26 |       Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 9 | | olcott |
| 9 Mar 26 |        Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 8 | | Mikko |
| 9 Mar13:34 |         Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 2 | | olcott |
| 10 Mar09:33 |          Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 1 | | Mikko |
| 9 Mar13:42 |         Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 5 | | olcott |
| 10 Mar13:03 |          Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 4 | | Tristan Wibberley |
| 10 Mar14:45 |           Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 3 | | olcott |
| 10 Mar17:43 |            Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 1 | | Ross Finlayson |
| 10 Mar18:41 |            Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 1 | | olcott |
| 7 Mar 26 |     Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 8 | | Tristan Wibberley |
| 7 Mar 26 |      Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 7 | | olcott |
| 9 Mar10:43 |       Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 6 | | Tristan Wibberley |
| 9 Mar13:48 |        Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 2 | | olcott |
| 10 Mar14:07 |         Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 1 | | Tristan Wibberley |
| 9 Mar20:34 |        Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 2 | | Ross Finlayson |
| 10 Mar06:15 |         Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 1 | | Ross Finlayson |
| 10 Mar12:57 |        Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 1 | | Tristan Wibberley |
| 6 Mar 26 |   Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 7 | | Ross Finlayson |
| 6 Mar 26 |    Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 6 | | Ross Finlayson |
| 8 Mar 26 |     Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 2 | | Tristan Wibberley |
| 8 Mar 26 |      Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 1 | | Ross Finlayson |
| 8 Mar 26 |     Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 3 | | olcott |
| 8 Mar 26 |      Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 2 | | Ross Finlayson |
| 8 Mar 26 |       Re: The proper way to use LLMs to aid primary research into foundations | 1 | | olcott |
| 7 Mar 26 |  Don Knuth on the superb capability of Claude Opus 4.6 | 13 | | olcott |
| 7 Mar 26 |   Re: Don Knuth on the superb capability of Claude Opus 4.6 | 12 | | Ross Finlayson |
| 7 Mar 26 |    Re: Don Knuth on the superb capability of Claude Opus 4.6 | 11 | | Ross Finlayson |
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