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Entertainment of the week: arXiv vs. snarXiv. How well can you distinguish actual high-energy physics paper titles from computer generated fakes?
As every theoretical physicist knows, the arXiv.org preprint server is the go-to place for current research. (That "X" is supposed to be the Greek letter chi.) Essentially every string theory paper is posted there long before it's published, so active researchers check the new submission list daily.
The newly released snarXiv is "a random high-energy theory paper generator incorporating all the latest trends, entropic reasoning, and exciting moduli spaces." It generates titles, author lists, and abstracts (for now). Its creator goes on to explain that "The arXiv is similar, but occasionally less random." His blog post (linked here) even goes on to suggest good uses for the snarXiv at each stage of your career. This is all absolutely hilarious to those of us who follow the arXiv for a living. For everyone else, it's a chance to laugh at us.
When I tried the arXiv vs. snarXiv quiz, I got to 10/10 and then stopped for fear of embarrassing myself if I eventually got one wrong.
As every theoretical physicist knows, the arXiv.org preprint server is the go-to place for current research. (That "X" is supposed to be the Greek letter chi.) Essentially every string theory paper is posted there long before it's published, so active researchers check the new submission list daily.
The newly released snarXiv is "a random high-energy theory paper generator incorporating all the latest trends, entropic reasoning, and exciting moduli spaces." It generates titles, author lists, and abstracts (for now). Its creator goes on to explain that "The arXiv is similar, but occasionally less random." His blog post (linked here) even goes on to suggest good uses for the snarXiv at each stage of your career. This is all absolutely hilarious to those of us who follow the arXiv for a living. For everyone else, it's a chance to laugh at us.
When I tried the arXiv vs. snarXiv quiz, I got to 10/10 and then stopped for fear of embarrassing myself if I eventually got one wrong.