Randomly Generated Paper Accepted to Conference

mldqj writes "Some students at MIT wrote a program called SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator. From their website: SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. What's amazing is that one of their randomly generated paper was accepted to WMSCI 2005. Now they are accepting donation to fund their trip to the conference and give a randomly generated talk."

Random Relpy

[extremescholar]

Random Post!

Patents application

[Anonymous Coward]

Their original plan was to do this with a patent application instead... but decided they needed a challenge.

In other news...

[umrgregg]

In other news a randomly generated story submission was accepted by /. moderators.

What's it's username here?

[Rollie Hawk]

n/t

Hmm

[daeley]

Do they accept randomly generated quotes from Linus Torvalds? ;)

How Long Before...

[ackthpt]

How long before /. accepts an article randomly generated?

or has it already happened? [mit.edu]

downtown Holland, Michigan is in flames as a randomly assembled protest practices their own brand of metamoderation.

the question is..

[ShaniaTwain]

Whats the equivalent monkeys per typewriter power of this software?

Re:In other news...

[Scoria]

Twice.

Have a randomly generated comment

[Anonymous Coward]

I for one welcome our new randomly generated comment/story overlords from soviet russia where comment posts you.

Re:Hmm

[garcia]

Only if they're not true.

On a similar note...

[GillBates0]

check out the Random Slashdot story generator [bbspot.com] if you haven't done so already. I give it a few weeks before one of these gets accepted by the editors.

Don't forget the great paper by Mazieres & Koh

[nweaver]

Don't forget Mazieres and Kohler's great submission as well, "Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List" [nyu.edu]

Re:the question is..

[Tackhead]

> Whats the equivalent monkeys per typewriter power of this software?

Don't know much 'bout monkeys and typewriter, but I reckon at least 1,000,000 pickup trucks, shotguns, and miles of highway signage, at least if it's written in Braille.

Does anyone read these?

[Wansu]

An electronics lab instructor I had in college didn't read our notebooks carefully. I answered a question with the phrase, "mumbo jumbo, dog-faced in the banana patch" and he checked it.

My complaint about slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

Click here [pakin.org] before you moderate!!!

I, not being one of the many insolent, vicious used-car salesmen of this world, am going to make this short but sweet: In this era of rising sesquipedalianism, we must shine a light on slashdot's efforts to test another formula for silencing serious opposition. That's self-evident, and even slashdot would probably agree with me on that. Even so, I have to wonder where it got the idea that it is my view that my bitterness at it is merely the latent projection of libidinal energy stemming from self-induced anguish. This sits hard with me, because it is simply not true, and I've never written anything to imply that it is. Let's start with my claim that slashdot's inveracities are based on a technique I'm sure you've heard of. It's called "lying". I like to think I'm a reasonable person, but you just can't reason with brutal, disgusting junkies. It's been tried. They don't understand, they can't understand, they don't want to understand, and they will die without understanding why all we want is for them not to keep us perennially behind the eight ball. Now, I don't mean for that to sound pessimistic, although if you're interested in the finagling, double-dealing, chicanery, cheating, cajolery, cunning, rascality, and abject villainy by which slashdot may impose a particular curriculum, vision of history, and method of pedagogy on our school systems one of these days, then you'll want to consider the following very carefully. You'll especially want to consider that I want to give people more information about slashdot, help them digest and assimilate and understand that information, and help them draw responsible conclusions from it. Here's one conclusion I definitely hope people draw: Slashdot's callous, raving beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments) condemn innocent people to death. Slashdot then blames us for that. Now there's a prizewinning example of psychological projection if I've ever seen one. I want to make this clear, so that those who do not understand deeper messages embedded within sarcastic irony -- and you know who I'm referring to -- can process my point.

Slashdot prizes wealth and celebrity over and above decent morals and sound judgment. Now, I could go off on that point alone, but it continuously seeks adulation from its bedfellows. If you doubt this, just ask around. I once had a nightmare in which slashdot was free to make widespread accusations and insinuations without having the facts to back them up. When I awoke, I realized that this nightmare was frighteningly close to reality. For instance, slashdot's magic-bullet explanations are thoroughly otiose. Let's remember that. This is not Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, where the state would be eager to instill distrust and thereby create a need for its dictatorial views. Not yet, at least. But it argues that the most ridiculous pip-squeaks you'll ever see are easily housebroken. I wish I could suggest some incontrovertible chain of apodictic reasoning that would overcome this argument, but the best I can do is the following: It possesses no significant intellectual skills whatsoever and has no interest in erudition. Heck, it can't even spell or define "erudition", much less achieve it. Slashdot says it's going to make a big deal out of nothing faster than you can say "gastrohysterorrhaphy". Is it out of its malign mind? The answer is fairly obvious when you consider that this is kind of a touchy subject to some people. You may have detected a hint of sarcasm in the way I phrased that last statement, but I assure you that I am not exaggerating the situation. This letter has gone on far too long, in my opinion, and probably yours as well. So let me end it by saying merely that slashdot measures the value of a man by the amount of profit it can realize from him.

Re:I'd hate to be a paper referee after this.

[maxwell demon]

It's a thankless job to begin with. Now you have to approach each one with, "is this the real deal, or some bs-generated thing?"

Well, maybe they could use this program [slashdot.org] to filter the generated stuff out ;-)

You're nomenclature is confused.

[Anonymous Coward]

A monkey-typewriter (note: not monkey per typerwirter) is a unit of improbable entropy equal to the decible level of 350 grams of feces hurled at 1 ft per second into a plexiglass barrier.

Re:The blind publishing the blind.

[Guppy06]

"If you don't believe me, go look at the mission statement of any big company. It doesn't read like English."

How else do you expect them to stretch "To make money" out to fill up an entire page?

Re:the question is..

[IntelliTubbie]

Whats the equivalent monkeys per typewriter power of this software?

Good thinking! I hereby propose a new unit for measuring intelligence: the MBOTY (monkey-banging-on-typewriter-years). From basic probability theory, this number is certainly always finite -- and in some cases, very much so.

Cheers,
IT

Random slashdot story generator

[Conspiracy_Of_Doves]

http://bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/ [bbspot.com]

Admit it. You would swear you're looking at a real slashdot story :)

Re:On a similar note...

[glen604]

The best part is that it randomly puts in spelling errors as well.. that's the subterfuge needed to get the editors to accept it.

Re:The blind publishing the blind.

[TripMaster Monkey]

The more obscure your references are and the more complicated your train of thought, the smarter you must be, right?

Seems to work for Dennis Miller.

Re:The blind publishing the blind.

[maxwell demon]

You are surely informed about the undeniable fact that there are some required statements to be said about the absolute absence of anything resembling content. It enables you to produce large amounts of texts without the need of unnecessary using the central nervous system.

Hmmm ... still too short. Err, I mean, the length still lets something to be desired. Err ... the total number of words is clearly beyond the threshold of acceptability. Ok, that's better, next try: The total number of words the above text actually consists of can easily be seen to clearly be beyond the business-standard threshold of acceptability. Yes, that's it! ;-)

Prove it

[Anonymous Coward]

"What's scary is that the second paragraph was written by humans."

You've provided no proof for your hypothesis, ergo we can only conclude that it is indeterminite if this the case.

pit this against the essay autograder

[krunk4ever]

we should pit this against the essay autograder [slashdot.org] and see what grade we get. then we can refind it so it always generates A+ worthy papers.

Conferences that will accept anything.

[itsNothing]

I remember reading a report about 10 years ago about a group of researchers trying to prove that a given conference was bogus. The group generated 4 papers (including a random one) to see which among them would be accepted. My favorite was entitled:

Ray Tracing in the Absence of Light

It was accepted.

Re:Patents application

[deathcloset]

You know, this random generated article being accepted reminds me of this idea I once had.

I thought it would be rather interesting to create a program the randomly creates musical works. In fact, I would like it to create millions or billions of these works and to submit them for copyright :)

I think it would be possible to create every possible permutation of a 4 bar, or heck up to 16 bar melody, rhythm and harmony.

Then I could sue any new release by any record company 8D

Randomly generated paper accepted

[elgatozorbas]

How do you feel about Randomly generated paper accepted to conference?

Re:Patents application

[AndyMan1]

There is one flaw in your plan: Randomly generated music is sure to be levels above the tripe consistently put out by todays artists, and hence your music wouldn't match theirs.

Re:The blind publishing the blind.

[Storlek]

Increase the margins, use a big font, and fiddle with the letter spacing. Make a nice long title, too, so it wraps onto two lines.

Re:Have a randomly generated comment

[Anonymous Coward]

Uh, there is no step two there. Breasts and profit is a simple two-step scheme.

Re:You're nomenclature is confused.

[evanbd]

1 foot per second is really more of a "smoosh" or "smear" than it is a "hurl". Perhaps your standard should be revised. Also, I suggest you use more standard units, such as football fields per Electronic Arts workday.

A slight variation on the monkeys on typewriters

[nurhussein]

As the number of times a monkey hits "reload" on that page approaches infinity, the probability that you'll get a paper worthy of a Turing award approaches 1.

I hate to admit it, but I fell for it

[Anita Coney]

I clicked the link and created a random article. Before it appeared I went to the bathroom, got a snack, etc etc etc. A while later I came back and started reading the article.

By then I forgot all about it being randomly generated. I was trying to read it and I asked myself, "Why the fuck did I open this link, it makes no sense?!" A couple seconds later I remembered.

"Serving Canadians"

[crovira]

With fava beans?

How have you been Clarisse?

Re:Have a randomly generated comment

[maxwell demon]

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of random comment generators!

It's brilliant. I learned something!

[Mustang Matt]

Here's a snippet of my most recently generated article. This is some great stuff!

We have taken great pains to describe out evaluation setup; now, the payoff, is to discuss our results. We these considerations in mind, we ran four novel experiments: (1) we ran massive multiplayer online role-playing games on 13 nodes spread throughout the Planetlab network, and compared them against multi-processors running locally; (2) we measured database and WHOIS throughput on our human test subjects; (3) we ran SMPs on 42 nodes spread throughout the Internet-2 network, and compared them against fiber-optic cables running locally; and (4) we compared expected interrupt rate on the GNU/Hurd, FreeBSD and L4 operating systems. We discarded the results of some earlier experiments, notably when we measured database and RAID array latency on our network.

Now for the climactic analysis of the second half of our experiments. Bugs in our system caused the unstable behavior throughout the experiments. Similarly, the many discontinuities in the graphs point to amplified energy introduced with our hardware upgrades. We scarcely anticipated how accurate our results were in this phase of the evaluation.

Re:Patents application

[Barryke]

..prove they had access to your musical work..
Then dump it online as sex.rar and its distributed worldwide, now everyone has access to it. :)

I urge you to contribute.

[Tjp($)pjT]

Mail you transportation fund donation to a random address.

What's the big deal?

[davidyorke]

My boss has been randomly generating meeting content for years ... all in his head.

Re:Research by reading random paper productive?

[Anonymous Coward]

I post anonymously because I don't know who I am.

Overkill. Keep it simple.

[JonTurner]

>>I would like it to create millions or billions of these works...

Billions? Why bother? Based on my listening experience, Clearchannel and the record execs seem to have built empires on no more than three variations.

So keep it simple. Who needs the Circle of Fifths, or any of those pesky black piano keys when C-G-D and some random notes/rap over a drum track (serving as the bridge) will do? Repeat "ad naseum"

1) happy, mindless dance tune by teen-star-du-jour. 90beats per minute minimum, bass drum is primary instrument. May require heavy use of DSP processing to keep singer on pitch.
2) Rap about rapper knocking other rappers off the top of the charts and or "crunk whack party", "bustin' caps" or "dubs." Word "bitches" is mandatory. Threatening violence is a plus. Don't forget shout out to imprisoned/dead homies on extended mix version.
3) Wheezy, whiny country & western tune, mandatory mentions include pickup truck, whiskey. Extra chart-topping potential for use of word "fool".

I'm brilliant!

[Jakeypants]

Using various probability statistics, I've developed a random /. comment generator that'll always, without fail, get me a +5 Insightful! Let's see how this goes...

Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux

To cancel it out, I also wrote one that guarantees -5 Flamebait, too:

Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft

Re:The blind publishing the blind.

[Jason Ford]

That reminds me of an episode of 'Yes, Prime Minister' I saw recently. The PM had a very detailed plan to solve the education, unemployment, and security problems in the country. He was preparing to describe his plan in a television broadcast when his assistant suggested he change the wording.

Paraphrasing:

Assistant: 'Well, Prime Minister, why don't you say that we are examining a number of different proposals, evaluating each of them for their effectiveness, expense, and practicality, and will select the best from among them?'

PM: 'Bernard, you've used a bunch of words but you haven't managed to say anything!'

Assistant: 'Yes. Thank you, Prime Minister.'

not moderators, editors

[roman_mir]

random moderation is also very common here though...

Re:The blind publishing the blind.

[speleo]

The founder of what is now a very large software company I used to work for suggested this as the mission statement when they needed one before they went public:

"Whores for money."

Later on in the same company (after it went public) each department needed it's own mission statement. I worked in technical support at the time and our director suggested this:

"Answer phone when ring."

None of us now work there.

Re:No big surprise

[clem]

From the summary: Now they are accepting donation to fund their trip to the conference and give a randomly generated talk.

I wonder if they'd accept a randomly generated credit card number?

Re:The blind publishing the blind.

[Idarubicin]

At many (but not all) conferences, authors tend to be given the benefit of the doubt, so long as the paper is not obviously ridiculous or plagiarized.

Yes, but did you look at the paper? Figure 6 on "millennium hash tables" (which I admit shows an excellent linear relationship) plots the dependence of "seek time (cylinders)" on "latency (celcius)". Figure 3 measures "time since 1977" in teraflops. Okay--maybe reading the paper is too much to ask, but couldn't they at least have looked at the pictures?

I dare say that the paper is "obviously ridiculous".

Re:Don't forget the great paper by Mazieres &

[kfg]

I had a hard time trying to figure out what they were trying to say at first, but the graph in fig. 2 finally made it all clear.

The paper really needed more graphics.

KFG

What About /. ?

[MSTCrow5429]

And I thought Slashdot had been posting random articles all these years...

Re:The blind publishing the blind.

[NoOneInParticular]

I actually thought the reply was brilliant. The guy clearly looked at the paper, looked at it again and decided that he would not insult any reviewer by exposing them to blatant nonsense that was in the paper. Then, after being asked for the reviews, he answers in the same style as the paper, complete with obscure and irrelevant references. Score 1 for the organizer, I thought.

Nigerian WMSCI spam

[tbo]

About a month ago, I got an email from "Prof. Nagib Callaos" inviting me to submit papers to WMSCI. When I first got it, I thought it was another piece of Nigerian Money Fraud spam. It has that blend of apologetic politeness and bad english that is unique to the Nigerian Fraud spams...

Dear Dr. (my name here):

We are sorry to take a bit of your valuable time, but we thought it is good
to inform you that we extended up to March 29th the deadline for submitting
papers to WMSCI ((http://www.iiisci.org/sci2005). The extended deadlines
are as follows:

Paper Submission: March 29th
(http://www.iiisci.org/sci2005/website/submi ssion. asp)

Invited Sessions Proposal: March 29th
(http://www.iiisci.org/sci2005/invitedsessio n/orga nizer.asp)

Notification of Acceptance: April 19th.

Final Camera Ready Manuscript due: May 3rd.

Consequently, we are sending you again the invitation to participate in
WMSCI, as follows.

On behalf of the WMSCI 2005 Organizing Committee, I would like to invite
you to participate in the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics,
Cybernetics and Informatics (http://www.iiisci.org/sci2005), which will
take place in Orlando, Florida, USA, on July 10-13, 2005.

You can get the conferences Call for papers in
(http://www.iiisci.org/sci2005/website/callfor pape rs.asp).

The best 10% of the papers will be published in Volume 3 of SCI Journal
(http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI/Home.a sp ). 12 issues of the volumes 1
and 2 of the Journal have been sent to about 200 university and research
libraries. Free subscriptions, for 2 years, are being considered for the
organizations of the Journals authors.

We are emphasizing the area of Quantum Information which is related to your
specific area.

Also, we would like to invite you to organize an invited session related to
a topic of your research interest. If you are interested in organizing an
invited session, please, fill the respective form provided in the
conference web page, and we will send you a password, so you can include
and modify papers in your invited session.

Organizers of the invited sessions with the best performance will be
co-editors of the proceeding volume where their sessions' papers were
included and of the CD electronic proceedings. They will also be candidate
for invited editors, or co-editors of a possible WMSCI Journal issue
related to their invited session papers.

You can find information about the suggested steps to organize an invited
session in the Call for Papers and in the conference web page:
http://www.iiisci.org/sci2005 .

If by any reasons you are not able to access the page mentioned above,
please, try the following pages: http://www.iiis.org/sci2005 .

If you need a detailed Call for Papers, don't hesitate in asking us for it.

If the deadlines are tight and you need more time, let me know about a
suitable time and I will inform you if it is feasible for us.

Best regards,

Professor Nagib Callaos
SCI 2005 General Chair

My apologies to Professor Callaos if he actually is Nigerian.

Re:How Long Before...

[Darthmalt]

you mean like this one [bbspot.com]

They're being silly

[Jane Hackworth]

It must have taken them a really long time to type all that.

Re:The blind publishing the blind.

[Stiletto]

Through WMSCI conferences, we are trying to relate (+1, non-action) the analytic thinking required in focused conference sessions (+1, vague), to the synthetic thinking (+1, jargon), required for analogies generation (+2, prepositional phrase overload), which calls for multi-focus (+2, oxymoron) domain and divergent (+1, buzzword) thinking (+1, word used three times in one sentence). Sentence bonus (+3 run-on)
We are trying (+1, repeat) to promote (+1, non-action) a synergic (+1, buzzword) relation between analytically and synthetically oriented minds (+1, jargon), as it is found between left and right brain hemispheres, by means of (+2, prepositional phrase overload) the corpus callosum (+1, jargon). Then, WMSCI 2005 might be perceived (+1, non-action) as a research corpus callosum (+1, jargon), trying to bridge (+1, non-action) analytically (+1, word overuse) with synthetically (+1, word overuse) oriented (+1, buzzword) efforts, convergent (+1, buzzword) with divergent (+1, buzzword) thinkers and focused (+1, word overuse) specialists with non-focused (+2, again?) or multi-focused (+3, AAAGGHH) generalists. Sentence bonus (+3 run-on) Paragraph bonus (+5 meaningless)

TOTAL SCORE: 41 (a new world record)

Re:Overkill. Keep it simple.

[Le Marteau]

Yeah, I love these guys who come to realize that they like alternative music, then proceed to piss all over other people's likes, cop a superior attitude, and walk around like they friggin' WROTE the music. "Those poor, unenlightened fools have no taste, listening to that banality. Thankfully, my tastes are elevated and I see how weak what they like is."

Re:What About /. ?

[zpok]

"And I thought Slashdot had been posting random articles all these years... "

Nah, just the comments. The flames are genuine though.

Re:Random Relpy

[twofidyKidd]

Me fail English? That's unpossible!

Re:Random Relpy

[operagost]

It tastes like ... burning!

family guy quote

[asoap]

Here comes the family guy quote:

Dennis Miller: I don't wanna go on a RANT here but America's foreign policy makes about as much sense as Beowolf having sex with Robert Fulton at the first Battle of Antietam. I mean when a neo-conservative defenstrates it's like Raskalnakov filibuster dioxymonohydrostinate.

Peter: What the hell does RANT mean?

A new take on "artificial intelligence"

[jnorden]

Wow - this has given me a whole new perspective on an age-old problem.

The quest for a computer which has the intelligence of a human is going to succeed, and fairly soon.

It won't be accomplished by advances in AI algorithms or hardware, though.

All we have to do is wait for the average level of human intelligence to fall far enough, and the current software will have accomplished the feat!

Re:The blind publishing the blind.

[SpecBear]

How else do you expect them to stretch "To make money" out to fill up an entire page?

Switch page orientation to landscape, increase font size. Can I be a CEO now?

Re:Similar to the Pomo Generator

[MrHanky]

You know, if you had any education, you would easily notice the difference between sentences like "The premise of predialectic materialism suggests that expression comes from the collective unconscious" and something written by a pomo-head. Both 'dialectical materialism' and 'collective unconcious' are clearly defined (although the latter doesn't seem to exist), and every "scholar" can see that the concepts can't be used like that.

The reason why you can't tell how many such essays you've had to read is, of course, that you've had to read exactly none, and it would totally spoil your joke if you told us.

So basically, you're being a pretentious fucktard by trying to fool people into believing you're smart enough to discover, all by your own hard work, that postmodernism is a bunch of meaningless pseudo-randomly generated junk. It probably is, for the most part, but you don't know anything about it.

Re:Not surprising at all

[Anonymous Coward]

That punctuation mark, the semicolon.. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Re:The blind publishing the blind.

[shadowbearer]

Run At The Mouth Disease is a frequent absolution statement of a fairly large statistical group who feel they've been overutilized and underappreciated. To counter this negative feedback we've instituted the "Happy Employee" Day, where we will harness our collective attractive karma thru the underemployment of outwear and underwear and the overemployment of smiles. All employees are encouraged to attend, and attendance will be taken.

Good Day
Haired, Pointy, CERIO