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What is sigbovik like, and did he present this at that conference?
by kzrdude 3y ago
What is sigbovik like, and did he present this at that conference?
- UncleMeat 3y agoSigbovik is a joke conference put on by CMU students. About 80%-90% of the papers each year are pure jokes, but about 10-20% of them are jokes that have a nontrivial amount of work backing them up. These papers are awesome. Tom publishes at least one every year (sometimes 3-4) and his papers are among the best but there are others that are also awesome. It hits a very fun combination of hard work on trivial problems that is fascinating. They publish a proceedings every year and they are fun reads. Not a lot of people do accompanying videos like Tom does, but this one on WordTeX is excellent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlX_pThh7z8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlX_pThh7z8
- orthoxerox 3y agoI think tom7 and tomw are two different people.
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- UncleMeat 3y agoThey are different people, yes. That's why I mentioned the video as an example of somebody who isn't Tom7 doing an associated video. I guess my text was a little unclear.
- gs17 3y agoOne of the proceedings had a table with "serious/humorous presentation" on one axis and "serious/humorous idea" on the other. Normal conferences take the niche of "serious ideas presented seriously". For everything else, there's SIGBOVIK.