Comments on: Randomly Generated Computer Science

By: sieber

sieber — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 03:46:56 +0000

How about the random Alanis Morissette lyrics generator?

By: sieber

sieber — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 04:02:47 +0000

Hmm. I can see it now. A flood of posts to comply with course requirements!

By: Jean-Sebastien

Jean-Sebastien — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:42:27 +0000

I found out there is actually a random blog post generator on Slashdot. Try it here

By: jennifer

jennifer — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:21:46 +0000

ah yes! this is exactly what i was talking about in the human cloning post. this is even more extreme… using computers to actually write whole articles far outweighs using them to check our grammar!!

By: Jean-Sebastien

Jean-Sebastien — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:19:42 +0000

It’s also funny to look at why the other paper as been rejected.
Although the paper is complete non-sense
they give some pretty precise reasons and numbers:

“As you know there are more perspectives and opinions on this issue. Willis &
Bobys (1983, Perishing in Publishing: An analysis of rejection letters.
Wisconsin sociologist, 20(2-3), 84-91), for example, found that 54% of the
rejection letters provided some justification for the rejection, and the
most frequent reason (19%) was that the manuscript was “inappropriate for
the journal”. They also found that comments of the reviewers had been
included in the 57% of the letters.”

By: Hannah

Hannah — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 23:54:53 +0000

Hahahaha…not exactly coherent, but amusing. So now I’ll just, uh, enter some author’s
names from this course, and uh, see what it comes up with…