jrockster21 Posted June 29, 2005 Share Posted June 29, 2005 Okay, so this is a little nerdy, but seeing as how we're all on a message board, I figure I'm in safe territory. Anyway, these guys were featured in Popular Science. They developed this program that generates entire conference papers on computer stuff. They are basically nonsense, but they include graphs, references, and they actually read like they make sense. I don't know enough about computers to tell the difference, anyway. Anyway, they submitted a few of these fake papers to a conference and got them published! Pretty funny....anyway, check it out here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iheartskins Posted June 29, 2005 Share Posted June 29, 2005 That's pretty cool. I bet a lot of High School teachers are going to get fooled--at least initially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrockster21 Posted June 29, 2005 Author Share Posted June 29, 2005 Originally posted by iheartskins That's pretty cool. I bet a lot of High School teachers are going to get fooled--at least initially. I don't know about that...if I was a High-School teacher and I got a paper generated from this website, I would be immediately suspicious because they are way beyond HS levels.....well, way beyond the level I was at in HS anyway.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iheartskins Posted June 29, 2005 Share Posted June 29, 2005 Originally posted by jrockster77 I don't know about that...if I was a High-School teacher and I got a paper generated from this website, I would be immediately suspicious because they are way beyond HS levels.....well, way beyond the level I was at in HS anyway.... Good point, perhaps I should change that to "college professors" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sisko Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 I wonder if they have a version that generates public health papers?? Heh, heh, heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joeythetapeworm Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 :laugh: MIT is great. Seems like they've got a deep history of this kind of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
du7st Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 The abstract of the article generated showed it was just BS but that is actually legitimate in the world of academic journals. Throw together a bunch of unrelated formulas, charts, and of course unnecessary abstraction to explain something trivial like that computer networks are more efficent when less packets are sent. I have had to memorize crap formulas to explain the flow of traffic in routers that can simply be explained by common sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sisko Posted July 2, 2005 Share Posted July 2, 2005 If you think that's unnecessarily complicated just try making sense of public health journal articles that try to explain the theory behind why increasing cigarette taxes reduce smoking for example....and of course they all have to have a "logic model" that shows a few geometric shapes with some arrows thrown in the mix. Just brilliant:rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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