#sigbovik — Public Fediverse posts

I can’t stop thinking about this paper: https://tom7.org/httpv/httpv.pdf

(Companion video here: https://youtu.be/M1si1y5lvkk)

#sigbovik #infosec

#SIGBOVIK is at it again: "Factoring up to 255 “with” a Quantum Computer"

"[…] in this paper, I will appear to succeed at factoring by failing with style"

https://sigbovik.org/2025/proceedings.pdf#[{%22num%22%3A51%2C%22gen%22%3A0}%2C{%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22}%2C72%2C720%2Cnull]

@nuintari In the tongue-in-cheek 2025 #SIGBOVIK conference compendium, there's a paper titled "UPPERCASE IS ALL YOU NEED" and is formatted exactly as expected.

This is one of many hilarious papers I'm reading this week, with most poking fun at AI in novel ways.

Body horror in your #SIGBOVIK? It's more likely than you think.

Sigbovik Conference Proceedings 2025 [pdf]

https://sigbovik.org/2025/proceedings.pdf

#HackerNews #Sigbovik #Conference #Sigbovik2025 #Proceedings #PDF #TechCommunity

All good things must come to an end, and #SIGBOVIK 2025 is no exception. For those who missed my recorded presentation, you can watch it back on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/_vgXi80y7Us

#SIGBOVIK

Sometimes Is Good But Often Veers Into Kitsch

—Lea

Have you all got your “New @tom7 #SIGBOVIK Paper” advent calendars? Behind today's door I got a chocolate chainsaw that endlessly orbits the largest sphere/oblate spheroid in the room.

You know what, I think the TXTA (TeXT Archive) format is worthy of a Sigbovik paper. It seems cursed enough. Will have to read existing papers to figure out how to write one in a way that's not really bad. I've always wanted to do something super cursed with computers that warranted being submitted to Sigbovik but had never been able to think of anything that was cursed enough. At first I thought TXTA could be a PhD research paper but that would take too long and is too serious.

#txta #Sigbovik

@Patricia Can I interest in a little bit of #sigbovik for an automated fix?

https://mastodon.social/@tom7/112571462319657292

Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need [video] (2022)
http://tom7.org/harder/
#ycombinator #hard_drives #ping #ping_the_internet #store_data_in_ping #tetris #store_data_in_tetris #tetris_hard_drive #tetris_solution #tetris_rng #tetris_prng #linear_feedback_shift_register #sigbovik #storing_data_in_covid_test #cue_covid_teardown #cue_covid_eeprom #tom_7 #tom_murphy_vii_phd

Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need [video]
http://tom7.org/harder/
#ycombinator #hard_drives #ping #ping_the_internet #store_data_in_ping #tetris #store_data_in_tetris #tetris_hard_drive #tetris_solution #tetris_rng #tetris_prng #linear_feedback_shift_register #sigbovik #storing_data_in_covid_test #cue_covid_teardown #cue_covid_eeprom #tom_7 #tom_murphy_vii_phd

Glad #Sigbovik exists. It's nice to have humorous/unhinged computer papers to think about and discuss. I learned about it with the "Generalized Super Mario Bros. is NP-Complete" video.

Tom 7: Badness 0 (Three ways)
http://tom7.org/bovex/
#ycombinator #badness_0 #lorem_ipsum #lorem_epsom #donald_knuth #apostrophe_skiller #BoVeX #AI_alignment #computer_science_idiot #sigbovik #tom_7 #tom_murphy_vii_phd

Commodore 64 ganha do computador quântico da IBM.

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/05/03/commodore-64-ganha-do-computador-quantico-da-ibm/

#MundoRetro #Commodore64 #ComputaoQuntica #conferncia #humor #IBM #Mach #SIGBOVIK #UniversidadeDeCarnegieMelon

😜

On the Turing completeness of PowerPoint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8 #SIGBOVIK

Naturally, there's a follow-up -
Can we compile C code into PowerPoint? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LArkm4v5mWA 😎

It's the time of year where enough time after #SIGBOVIK has passed that bits of it are reaching unintended audiences, like journalists who write articles about "researchers prove Commodore 64 faster than IBM's quantum computer"

I've somehow just discovered the #SIGBOVIK conference series and the proceedings are taking me down a rabbit hole of programming/software engineering hilarity.

https://sigbovik.org/2024/

Byzantween Generals 💀

#sigbovik without context

I’m watching the #SIGBOVIK livestream and this is hilarious but also where has this been all my life: https://sendmixedsignals.vercel.app/

it’s a tool for weighting the variegated intentions you want to express to a counterparty and synthesizing them into one statement.

A+ for shitposting but also blending in with humans

Today is #SIGBOVIK so it’s time to get started making my talk, but instead I’m wisely adding new features to my programming language to make it “easier” to make the talk!

@baldur “Accepted for publication at #SIGBOVIK 2019…”

Looking that up: “We especially welcome the three neglected quadrants of research: joke realizations of joke ideas, joke realizations of serious ideas, and serious realizations of joke ideas. (In other words: SIGBOVIK is an evening of tongue-in-cheek academic presentations, a venue for silly ideas and/or executions.)”

So congratulations are in order, I suppose.

@lindsey @InfiniteNutshell love this kinda thing! It’s eerily reminiscent (but better) than our (@simrob) #sigbovik paper “Functional Perl: Programming with Recusion Schemes in Python” https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rjsimmon/random/bovik2010case.pdf (I did the JavaScript horror)

#Tom7 aka #suckerpinch has a new video up for #SIGBOVIK , about, uh, "What if deep learning but worse?" It's genius Computer Science shitposting. "GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae9EKCyI1xU

"For all practical purposes, it doesn't matter"
"Well, what about *impractical* purposes?"

"Theoretically I am right, but for practical purposes it probably does not matter. But I like to work at the intersection of Theory and Impractice." https://lobste.rs/s/18sfg2/sigbovik_0x2023
#sigbovik

Someone left a note on my #sigbovik hardware security switch board with a much better switches = O(log(codes)) design. (No GFCI!)
Thank you, mysterious genius!

Time to start my last-minute #sigbovik paper(s).