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A paper that actually talks about the algorithm and a quote that sums it up https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.02035.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.02035.pdf > The ba
by throwaway66920 7y ago
A paper that actually talks about the algorithm and a quote that sums it up
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.02035.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.02035.pdf
> The basic maze generating routine had been partially written by a stoner who had left. I contacted him to try and understand what the maze generating algorithm did. He told me it came upon him when he was drunk and whacked out of his brain, he coded it up in assembly overnight before he passed out, but
now could not for the life of him remember how the algorithm worked.’
- Udik 7y agoThis is of course just plausible deniability. The truth is that the video game with its impossible algorithm is a message left by a stranded time traveller as a means to help his mates locate him.