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CS can be pretty postmodern too: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ (An Automatic CS Paper Generator)
by xtho 17y ago
CS can be pretty postmodern too:
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ (An Automatic CS Paper Generator)
- tybris 17y agoIt probably has more to do with the ability of computer scientists to create a paper generator than with CS in particular. There are people who can neither think nor write in every branch of science. The remarkable thing about postmodernism is that there are no other people in it.
- scott_s 17y agoAnd if you submit a paper generated from that to a top CS conference or journal, it will get rejected.
- xtho 17y agoMaybe, but it was sufficient to get the developers to a conference.
- scott_s 17y agoRead the motivation behind it more carefully. It got accepted to a scam conference. These are conferences that accept all papers, and exist to generate a profit for the conference organizers. Nobody takes the scholarship of those conferences seriously. The entire point of the exercise was similar to the stunt Sokal pulled: to demonstrate the quality of the venue by submitting a paper that anyone competent in the field would recognize as garbage.