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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 25-05-2017

May 25, 2017 12:00

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octopoid_horror May 25 2017, 17:27:48 UTC

I've probably mentioned it before but in this book it talks about how the epidemic of plane hijacking in the US in the late 60s and early 70s noticeably slowed when news coverage of the hijackers stopped being so prevalent.

steer May 26 2017, 07:30:32 UTC

Yes, it's worth noting that fake articles in computer science have been published in vanity CS journals and the authors have attended vanity CS conferences to present.

[In this particular case I'm thinking of the published paper was autogenerated by a context free grammar.]

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/