The SnarXiv

by Brian Hayes

Published 7 June 2010

The snarXiv is a ran­dom high-energy the­ory paper gen­er­a­tor incor­po­rat­ing all the lat­est trends, entropic rea­son­ing, and excit­ing mod­uli spaces. The arXiv is sim­i­lar, but occa­sion­ally less ran­dom.

Inspiring! Soon bit-player, too, will be generated by a context-free grammar, and no one will know the difference.

 

Responses from readers:

• A comment from 0x69, 7 June 2010 at 8:35 am

  Fun ;-)
  I know similar page which generates random philosophy article:
  http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
  I plan myself someday to implement random *text* generation, by using Markov chains algorithm ;-)

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Publication history

First publication: 7 June 2010

Converted to Eleventy framework: 22 April 2025