[Drup]

To everyone in this subthread: sigbovik is a conference published every 1st of April.

This paper is an April's fool joke. I didn't think people could take that one seriously. I guess it's a good April's fool then. :)

[ukj]

The conference is indeed a spoof, but in so far as what Mathematicians call a "proof" - the paper contains one. Agda is a proof assistant in the spirit of the Calculus of Constructions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_constructions ).

So is the joke on Computer Scientists or Mathematicians? You decide ;)

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it --Donald Knuth

[Drup]

Sigbovik's jokes are of the kind where the premise is completely bonkers. The rest of the development is made with the utmost rigor to highlight said bonkersitude, Reductio ad absurdum.

[ukj]

Yeah, but that is precisely how inductive types work.

"Bonkers" premises. Iterate, iterate, iterate. "Bonkers" conclusions. GIGO.

And yet the result is reified, exists and speaks for itself. So what is so "absurd" and "bonkers" about a result that is right before your eyes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(computer_science)

[rualca]

The wide adoption of Flask as Python's backend development framework of choice makes it quite clear that software developers have a hard time picking up April fool's jokes.

[411111111111111]

Or how great April fool's ideas can actually be if they turn out to be real