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14971. jonas (37.191.60.209) – 14 May 04:05:37 May the 7th be with you ]
The record of the proceedings of SIGBOVIK 2025 the nineteenth annual intercalary robot dance party in celebration of workshop on symposium about 2⁶th birthdays, in particular, that of Harry Q. Bovik, presented by the association for computational heresy are now available for download from "https://sigbovik.org/2025/proceedings.pdf"
 
14970. Anonymous (185.241.224.198) – 12 May 12:19:39 May the 7th be with you ]
You need to add SSL so that people do not know I'm a gay pirate assassin.
 
14969. andrea (103.199.37.36) – 09 May 09:09:36 May the 7th be with you ]
wow, I was thinking out of the blue for no reason whatsoever "oh, spacebar doesn't have ssl so the message board doesn't load in lc's ifame anymore..."

I come here and there you go. ssl coming up.
maybe.

🤞🏼
 
14968. Anonymous (35.148.71.126) – 08 May 23:14:59 May the 7th be with you ]
Hooray
 
14967. mixmix (219.107.20.141) – 08 May 03:02:15 May the 7th be with you ]
Looking forward to the video!
 
14966. first line second line (154.47.29.26) – 04 May 06:28:34 Points intact! ]
Is there any nickname sanitization?
 
14965. Tom 7 (154.47.29.24) – 04 May 06:18:04 Points intact! ]
Is there any nickname authentication?
 
14964. Anonymous (154.47.29.24) – 03 May 04:08:43 SIGBOVIK deadline makes the doppler noise as it rushes past me ]
> you can never really be sure if I have lost 1,000 points, even if the next month comes 'round.
 
14963. Anonymous (77.133.250.174) – 02 May 16:05:37 SIGBOVIK deadline makes the doppler noise as it rushes past me ]
looks like someone may lose 1000 points
 
14962. Anonymous (166.198.21.122) – 01 May 21:20:48 SIGBOVIK deadline makes the doppler noise as it rushes past me ]
No April post? Hope you’re alright
 
14961. Con (128.253.10.159) – 16 Apr 12:29:41 SIGBOVIK deadline makes the doppler noise as it rushes past me ]
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?
 
14960. Nels (98.38.82.61) – 09 Apr 21:36:59 SIGBOVIK deadline makes the doppler noise as it rushes past me ]
The video gives a great intuition, even before you read the paper.
 
14959. Tom 7 (74.98.221.176) – 08 Apr 08:46:14 SIGBOVIK deadline makes the doppler noise as it rushes past me ]
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 (:
 
14958. Anonymous (202.171.171.120) – 07 Apr 06:37:36 SIGBOVIK deadline makes the doppler noise as it rushes past me ]
devastated there was no livestream this year, but at least there's a tom7 video to look forward to
 
14957. Jordan (76.213.167.171) – 01 Apr 10:37:25 SIGBOVIK deadline makes the doppler noise as it rushes past me ]
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 :)
 
14956. My ip is -] (188.134.70.230) – 31 Mar 12:09:42 ARST ARSW ]
what is my ip?
 
14955. jonas (88.87.242.184) – 27 Mar 21:16:13 Points intact! ]
Sigbovik conference homepage just came alive, with a call for submissions: http://sigbovik.org/2025/
 
14954. A.A. (108.90.228.170) – 20 Mar 15:29:12 Points intact! ]
.... And are points for march also safe?
 
14953. A.A. (108.90.228.170) – 19 Mar 22:27:45 Your 2024 In Review ]
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.
 
14952. Tatman (172.58.146.64) – 04 Mar 10:54:00 Points intact! ]
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. :)
 
14951. Tom 7 (74.98.221.176) – 01 Mar 12:03:16 Your 2024 In Review ]
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.
 
14950. A.A. (108.90.228.170) – 17 Feb 18:04:25 Still: Winter is a time for hibernation. ]
Personally, 50 games in one purchase feels like the opposite of progress given the number of unplayed games I have already.
 
14949. A.A. (108.90.228.170) – 17 Feb 18:02:13 Your 2024 In Review ]
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.
 
14948. suomynonA (115.164.33.151) – 15 Feb 00:18:07 NEW: Apacer Audio Steno: The Final Solution ]
please tell me you have the user manual for this. im begging on my knees for this
 
14947. mpa (104.132.224.104) – 11 Feb 15:16:54 CSD Logo, part II ]
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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