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Dienstag, 26.Juli 2005
After digesting all the diplomatic slang at WIPO, a bit of nonsense really soothes the ear and eye. Today I stumbled upon an article on spiegel.de (in German) about three MIT students who have finally written the program every academic dreams about: An automatic research paper generator.
SCIgen is extremely easy to use. It just asks for one or several author's names. When you then hit "Generate", an article appears that just sounds great - but is guaranteed to make no sense at all. Here's the start of one I got:
SCSI Disks Considered Harmful
Johannes T. Unger and Kristian Sand
Abstract
"Fuzzy" algorithms and agents have garnered profound interest from both statisticians and analysts in the last several years [7]. In this work, we prove the exploration of Scheme. In this position paper, we confirm not only that superpages can be made multimodal, authenticated, and adaptive, but that the same is true for 802.11 mesh networks.
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If you have ever suffered from overblown science lingo, you'll love sentences like "
Reality aside, we would like to synthesize a model for how our approach might behave in theory." The program even generates graphics and a list of the works used. ("Raman, K. Bungo: Study of Internet QoS. In POT the Conference on Omniscient, Compact Methodologies (Jan. 2004).")
Be warned: Though actually reading these automatically produced texts seems relaxing at first, it will eventually turn your brain to mush. Feels good, though. And it's GPL software too!
