You crapper encounter...

[James Miller]

On 26 February 2012 23:24, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, February 26, 2012 11:05:33 simendsjo wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:57:21 +0100, torhu <no at spam.invalid> wrote:
>> > On 26.02.2012 01:34, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> >> Had a good chuckle:
>> >>
>> >> http://buztech.org/read-d-programming-ebooks-lesson-1-getting-started.htm
>> >> l
>> >>
>> >> Andrei
>> >
>> > Did they use Google translate to translate it to Chinese and then back
>> > again?  That's the worst I've ever seen.
>>
>> At first, I thought the site was some sort of auto-generated content to
>> fool users to see the ads :)
>
> I know that there's at least one site out there which will generate random
> research papers for you, but even those are way better than this, because that
> sort of thing takes real, valid sentences and puts them together in way that
> its AI thinks will sound good (and the result with the research papers is stuff
> that sounds good until you start trying to figure out what it actually means),
> whereas this is just horrible English. It pretty much _has_ to have been done
> manually simply because an autogenerator would have done a better job as far
> as the English goes if not the content.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

There are books that are generated using Markov chains, then sold on
amazon. There are also bots that try to sell used copies of books, so
you have robots writing, buying a selling books!

--
James Miller