{"id":456,"date":"2005-04-13T21:25:19","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T02:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/04\/13\/the-dbc-of-cs\/"},"modified":"2005-04-13T21:25:19","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T02:25:19","slug":"the-dbc-of-cs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/04\/13\/the-dbc-of-cs\/","title":{"rendered":"The DBC of CS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social engineering at its finest:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu\/scigen\/\" title=\"Linked by Leonard.\">SCIgen<\/a> uses a context-free grammar to generate comp sci papers entirely too much like those from which I&#8217;ve been expected to learn for the past two years.  It&#8217;s a little scary how good the results are.  I was able to read the entire abstract of <a href=\"http:\/\/cone.lcs.mit.edu\/scicache\/759\/scimakelatex.9811.Brendan+Adkins.Corey+Christopher.html\" title=\"The latter would probably be my stage name if it wasn't so girly.\">my personal paper<\/a> while nodding my head, although the first clause of the introduction (&#8220;Unified metamorphic methodologies have led to many <i>unfortunate<\/i> advances&#8221;) broke the spell.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, right, the social engineering part is that they got one of their generated papers accepted to a conference.  Well-played, humans who probably remember daylight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social engineering at its finest: SCIgen uses a context-free grammar to generate comp sci papers entirely too much like those from which I&#8217;ve been expected to learn for the past two years. It&#8217;s a little scary how good the results are. I was able to read the entire abstract of my personal paper while nodding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,97,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discoveries","category-grad-school","category-mild-lunacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}