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Searching 32M academic papers for obscene acronyms hidden in the titles

• Shindi 4y ago
  This is a dumb article. I like it. It's clear the author doesn't have a commercial goal, or really any goals imo, but is just playing around and tinkering. There is something really delightful about projects where there is no revenue or external goal that come up with some fun result.
  • iamthemonster 4y ago
    He's the guy from b3ta.com, this is perfectly consistent with his approach to life over the past 21 years.
• effnorwood 4y ago
• fnordpiglet 4y ago
  Best use of computers this year.
• bmsleight_ 4y ago
  Of course the sub-title is S-H-I-T AKA S-O-A-P-Y T-I-T W-A-N-K
• codezero 4y ago
  I’m bummed that I didn’t think of this when I was publishing in academia.
  • biomcgary 4y ago
    As a postdoc, I had a friend acronym his pipeline for studying fungal genome to CRAP. I think our advisor nixed the paper title though.
    • codezero 4y ago
      Credit to the advisor for noticing!
• btrettel 4y ago
  Some scientists don't even try to hide an obscene acronym: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20100024508 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20100024508 > The development and verification of the Charring Ablating Thermal Protection Implicit System Solver (CATPISS) is presented. [...]
• akomtu 4y ago
  Wait until they try to read first letters of words in the papers written by starving PhDs: "Halogenic electro-luminescence produces magnetic excitations [1]. However..."
• mturmon 4y ago
  If you control typography, there’s always the “first column” option, viz., https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Did-Schwarzenegger-drop-4-letter-bomb-in-veto-3282903.php https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Did-Schwarzenegger-drop-...
• TT-392 4y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-polarization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-polarization proton-enhanced nuclear induction spectroscopy