You crapper encounter...

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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> "Lars T. Kyllingstad" <public at kyllingen.net> wrote in message 
> news:jidgmp$o6f$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 26/02/12 11:24, Jonathan M Davis 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)
>>
>> Someone actually managed to get a paper like this accepted to a 
>> conference. :)
>>
>> http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
>>
>
> Heh, I glanced through their first example, and came across this gem:
>
> "First, we halved the effective optical drive space of our mobile 
> telephones to better understand the median latency of our desktop 
> machines. This step flies in the face of conventional wisdom, but is 
> instrumental to our results."
>
> The whole thing sounds like it's written by former researchers who have 
> completely snapped. It's so random, there's no coherence from one sentence 
> to the next :)
>

Ha! And "Fig. 6." ("The expected distance of Rooter...") is hilarious. The 
best part is the axis labeled "latency (celcius)".

I can just imagine this paper being rushed together by a bunch of senile 
retired scientists (Prof. Hubert J. Farnsworth comes to mind..."Good news 
everyone!" :) )