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This generator reminds me of the Paper generator by some MIT students.. http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ ..much more funny

• infinity 17y ago
  This is fantastic. And there are some cool stories and links on that page. Thanks for the link :D
• zkz 17y ago
  (I tried to upvote you and I downvoted you instead... sorry)
• ephermata 17y ago
  Yes, this is funny. The existence of random paper generators for a discipline doesn't say much about the rigor of that discipline. You might be able to make some kind of argument based on how long it takes for someone trained in the discipline to detect it as randomly generated. Of course, you could imagine building a program that creates perfectly compileable, yet randomly generated programs. These guys actually did it to test gcc's handling of the volatile keyword: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/emsoft08-preprint.pdf http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/emsoft08-preprint.pdf