YOU DON'T MISS!! Thanks for the great post and looking forward to the video. These long-form, funny-yet-educational project blog posts really do it for me. Do you know anyone else that makes content like this? |
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The video gives a great intuition, even before you read the paper. |
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Sorry! The online presence was weak this year (see e.g. website), which is a bit sad to me since we do get a lot of submissions from outside CMU these days. The conference did happen, though, and it seemed pretty healthy.
I am working on a video and it will be better than my SIGBOVIK talk was. But now that there are no deadlines I am taking my time (: |
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devastated there was no livestream this year, but at least there's a tom7 video to look forward to |
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I'll get around to reading the paper maybe sometime before the video comes out. I skipped to the end and was not disappointed:
“Robustness”. BoVeX no longer crashes programs like Adobe Acrobat that expect the PDFs to be “correct.” LOL!!
Keep up the good work :) |
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14956. My ip is -] (188.134.70.230) –
31 Mar 12:09:42
[ ARST ARSW ]
what is my ip? |
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Sigbovik conference homepage just came alive, with a call for submissions: http://sigbovik.org/2025/ |
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.... And are points for march also safe?
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Careful with that! My old PI had about that many half finished projects cluttering up his lab and still somehow entertained the idea of finishing all or most of them. EG enough to at one point in the 2010s spend half a day showing me his old interrupt driven soft-realtime code written in Borland C 3.1 on a DOS 486, written back when that was contemporary technology. Needless to say that was the last time anybody touched that code or desk-full of hardware until surplus came to trash all the lab's junk about 5 years later when he retired, with perhaps only one more of those 40 or so projects finished meanwhile.
Not to say his soft real time interrupt based DOS code wasn't top-notch! I'm sure somebody could have done a very decent dissertation using that code and pile of equipment on that one desk. |
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Aesop Rock is one of my favorites. I'd also recommend checking out some other duos that he's been a part of, like Hail Mary Mallon and The Uncluded. :) |
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It does seem like a major grind to try to do it professionally, but I do understand the appeal! I think my instinct to do everything from scratch by myself would be utterly disastrous, though.
Even absent the annoying pressure from the system to demand more and more numbers (which I am privileged to be able to mostly ignore), I don't think it's that unusual to have a lot of things in flight. Maybe it just depends on how you count. I seem to have 8 very concrete video projects right now. I think if I tallied my projects that I have put serious effort into (over ~decades!), but have not formally abandoned, it would exceed 50. Certainly more if I considered things that I have intention to do but haven't really started. I'm lucky that I don't need to make a business out of it, because honestly even the pressure to put out a decent SIGBOVIK effort once a year severely taxes my precious life-force as a 45 year-old. But I also do like to have finished things, so I could imagine that lifestyle being draining but also very satisfying. |
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Personally, 50 games in one purchase feels like the opposite of progress given the number of unplayed games I have already. |
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50 videos in progress(!!!) I'm not sure if that's inspirational or depressing.
No, actually I'm sure. That's depressing. And the difference between being a full-time dilettante and being a full-time "professional" youtuber. The amount of sustained effort to get noticed (and continue to hold attention) these days is a lot. |
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please tell me you have the user manual for this. im begging on my knees for this |
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Just to flesh out the story a bit, I was frustrated by the lack of labels on any doors and the resulting challenges in trying to find people with only a spreadsheet of office assignments and a map to work with. Therefore, I not only created the template, but I also printed a label for every single office and installed them in all the convenient label holders. |
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AA: I assume you mean because he left out my 90 seconds of suspense-building, completely blank video! I am sympathetic to strange editing decisions, which I have done many times at the last minute (only recently have I learned the lesson that I should probably watch the final edit before uploading?). This one had a natural real-world deadline, and as deadlines approach, even the most cautious editor's x-acto becomes hyperbolic. Plus Matt told me he has 50 (!!) videos in progress?
scene: It's true, or close to true, but it's actually Tom 7 from Tom 7! Thanks for watching and for finding inspiration. You will find the blog—which mostly contains me repeatedly saying that I made a small amount of progress on a secret project—a balancing counterpoint for that inspiration. |
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14945. 7 (107.115.227.65) –
02 Feb 10:04:44
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I didn’t even mark that one “canonical”! Using the middle move does probably give more interesting behavior than first. It’ll be easy to add to the tournament :) |
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14944. jonas (88.87.242.184) –
01 Feb 07:09:44
[ CHESSBOVIK ]
Elo World is now featured in "https://xkcd.com/3045/" |
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Excited to see what's to come! |
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I found an older implementation of the harder drive using ICMP echo at "https://code.kryo.se/pingfs/" from 2015, and it links to yet another earlier implementation from 2009. I think the idea itself has been rediscovered independently multiple times, but few people implement it. |
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I didn't know Tom from Tom7 ran a blog. Color me surprised! You're a big inspiration for me and I love everything you have produced. Thank you for being you - and making it public for me and others to enjoy! |
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Some would say: too little! I like Matt's video's on the whole but whomever does his editing often makes some strange choices in what makes the cut, as they are often too long, though in this case it was at least 90 seconds too short. |
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14939. deceptively hard old math problems al... (173.59.56.89) –
06 Jan 23:48:16
[ Your 2024 In Review ]
Matthew |
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jonas: Not any of those, but it is along these lines!
A.a.: Art lead on Arranger! I did like the artwork in that game. Your friend did a good job. Also: I guess I have nontrivial connectivity, I'm not nearly social enough to be a hub node. This one's Matt's doing for sure. |
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video is indeed live. I like how he changed the title after the comments tore it apart. On the other hand, a flawed algorithm might be more entertaining than than an ideal one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqOb5n3BIn0 |
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