CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- In a victory for pranksters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a bunch of computer-generated gibberish masquerading as an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference.
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unlike those in peer-reviewed journals. Not that some bad ones don't occasionally slip through there too, but conference papers don't count as "peer-reviewed publications." They go in the "other" category on one's Curriculum Vitae.
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But it's funny, doncha know. That's the point. Not only wasn't it carefully reviewed, apparently it wasn't read at all, by anyone.
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conference.
It's become increasingly clear to me, in the last few years, that the ability to string together the latest buzz words, in what sounds like coherent conversation to the initiated, is increasingly common as well as a path to success.
I shake my head in wonder at the technical failures that such people produce while their colleagues continue to believe them to be superior, if not outright genuises. We do indeed see this even in this forum.
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