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Still Entombed: The continuing twists and turns of a maze game (2022)
- rgrieselhuber 3y agoAlso one of the best metal bands of all time.
- debo_ 3y agoRelated: "Still Entombed After All These Years: The continuing twists and turns of a maze game" is a dive into how the algorithm was developed. https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue59/3/full-text.html https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue59/3/full-text.html
- dang 3y agoThanks! That looks like a fun page and doesn't seem to have been discussed on HN, so I've changed to that from https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09982 https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09982. Readers will want to look at both links.
- cpeterso 3y agoSidley said to the researchers of this programmer, "He told me it came upon him when he was drunk and whacked out of his brain." Later research, however, suggests that although the original programmer and his mathematical collaborator did devise the algorithm at a bar, they may have suggested or encouraged the drunken blackout story merely to avoid having to explain or assign intellectual property rights for the algorithm.