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As was pointed out on Twitter, this paper, while amusing, should not have made it through arXiv moderation, as the arXiv specifically prohibits "joke" submissio
by gautamcgoel 5y ago
As was pointed out on Twitter, this paper, while amusing, should not have made it through arXiv moderation, as the arXiv specifically prohibits "joke" submissions in favor of papers which are, at least ostensibly, serious scientific contributions.
- coding123 5y agohttps://www.ellipsix.net/arxiv-joke-papers.html https://www.ellipsix.net/arxiv-joke-papers.html
- theteapot 5y agoAt least it knows it's a joke.
- xenocratus 5y agoNot quite related to joke articles, potentially worse though: https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-did-a-peer-reviewed-journal-publish-hundreds-of-nonsense-papers https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-did-a-peer-reviewed-jo...
- jopela 5y agoTo me, this undermines the credibility of the other content since the "joke" tries to portray as genuine by being published on arxiv. It sort of dilutes to credibility of others.
- varenc 5y agoArxiv isn’t supposed to be a badge of credibility. It’s literally the place any academic can dump a paper to have it stored free forever. Many academic papers that never make it into journals are stored there. From their homepage they say: > Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv That said, they shouldn’t actively accept joke papers of course.
- thomasahle 5y agoWhich is good, since people shouldn't get the impression that arxiv implies credibility
- michaelhoffman 5y agoIt has "Comments: This is a silly article". Was that not there initially?
- Pinus 5y agoBack in the day, this got published in SIGGRAPH proceedings: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220721478_Ray_tracing_Jell-O_brand_gelatin https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220721478_Ray_traci... .
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- antognini 5y agoI don't mind joke publications on the arXiv as long as they at least save it for April 1.