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Serious formal work, conducted on an unserious substrate.

The printed SIGBOVIK 2026 proceedings, Carnegie Mellon University
SIGBOVIK 2026 proceedings — Carnegie Mellon University, April 10, 2026.

COME FROM Considered Helpful

A formal argument that INTERCAL's most notorious construct is not optional — that COME FROM is computationally necessary, not merely a provocation. Read it in the SIGBOVIK 2026 proceedings ↗

Optimal Graph Traversal Under Adversarial Constraints

A bitwise approach to memory-constrained environments — an 8×8 Knight's Tour solved with Warnsdorff's heuristic and Arnd Roth tiebreaking, as a bitboard, in a language with 16-bit variables and no arrays worth the name. Read it in the SIGBOVIK 2026 proceedings ↗