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The best part of the joke is that this is somewhat plausible. It would be relatively simple to write a package that threw in a “nocite” of your leadership’s ke
by parsimo2010 7y ago
The best part of the joke is that this is somewhat plausible. It would be relatively simple to write a package that threw in a “nocite” of your leadership’s key papers so they show up in the references even if you don’t cite them in your paper.
The translate package could be implemented with Google Translate or similar. The INTERCAL language required saying “please” in your code, something similar could be done for the boast package. I bet someone sufficiently motivated could make a decent stab at most of these, except for the award and accept packages. Some might require a few config options though.
- grenoire 7y agoTranslate was the one that threw me off immediately, and then I caught on the joke. To my knowledge, you cannot make HTTP requests with LaTeX (maybe some processor has commands to do so, alas I don't know of any).
- trombonechamp 7y agoYou should be able to do this with \write18.
- mehrdadn 7y agoNope, I actually found that one possible. There's already a package (minted) for syntax highlighting, and it calls external programs (the pygments Python script IIRC), so I don't see any reason why they couldn't do that.
- waynecochran 7y agoI think what made me more gullible is all the modern claims of machine learning... maybe, I thought, LaTeX was now using RNN's...