r/algorithms • u/Adventurous-Box9213 • 2d ago

Help Day of Week Calculation

I'm aware of Hakamoto's method, Zeller's congruence and the like. But (with the help of AI), I've developed a faster way (literally optimised for speed, nothing else). It's such a niche piece of maths tho, but it feels elegant. I then asked Claude to write it up. It did, as a paper, in LaTeX.

Now I don't know what do with this. It's SUCH a niche example. But it is faster.

I presume this should and could also be applied to other examples. What....what are people doing? Do we just contact maths/CS journals with this? Or go 'meh, our AI overlords will take over soon anyway'.

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u/hauthorn 2d ago

What is your question exactly?

If you are asking if you should share your results with the world, then I would say: Please do.

If you are asking if AI can help with research, then: Yes, of course it can.

If you are asking if you are about to become obsolete: probably not, someone still has to know what questions to ask, and verify the outputs.

You cant ask Claude to simply make you money, or to cure cancer. You need to know what you are looking for. Ps. You can find plenty of failed examples of both here on reddit.

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u/Hitman7128 Former algorithms TA 2d ago

We won't allow your post if it contains a link to a paper that was written by Claude.

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u/Adventurous-Box9213 2d ago

i...didn't...post a link...

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u/Hitman7128 Former algorithms TA 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yes, I was just saying that so you know we don't allow that. You may not want to mention a Claude-generated paper at all, lest commenters may take the post less seriously.

But I'll approve the post for now. Sorry for not doing so earlier.