Still Entombed: The continuing twists and turns of a maze game (2022)

Related: "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

Thanks! 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. Readers will want to look at both links.

Sidley 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.

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