Wack-a-mole
I have emerged from hiding just for a moment to post on the computer generated paper getting published at a conference. I will be returning to my undisclosed location where D... C... and I are tied 312-312 in a bridge marathon. Win-lose-or-tie, I'll be back in full text mode again the second week in May.
Speaking of the middle of May, my brother already has his Episode III tickets. Hat tip Sister, who is making the journey out to the other blogging brother.
Saturday, April 16, 2005
A reprise of the Social Text affair.
You may fondly recall Alan Sokal's experiement in cultural studies, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" . I know that I do. Sokal wrote a bunch of "fashionable nonsense" and got it published in the 1996 spring/summer issue of "Social Text".
Now CNN is reporting, "two fellow MIT graduate students questioned the standards of some academic conferences, so they wrote a computer program to generate research papers complete with 'context-free grammar,' charts and diagrams."
One of the papers was published.
Arvin Tseng wonders if this means the Turning test has been passed.
You may fondly recall Alan Sokal's experiement in cultural studies, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" . I know that I do. Sokal wrote a bunch of "fashionable nonsense" and got it published in the 1996 spring/summer issue of "Social Text".
Now CNN is reporting, "two fellow MIT graduate students questioned the standards of some academic conferences, so they wrote a computer program to generate research papers complete with 'context-free grammar,' charts and diagrams."
One of the papers was published.
Arvin Tseng wonders if this means the Turning test has been passed.
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