Month: November 2002
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“This MS Antitrust story was created by a computer program”
Google’s News service is remarkable: and the most astonishing thing about it is that it is generated automatically. ” The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program,” says a note at the foot of each page. But why stop there? Why not use Perl scripts to generate…
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Physics hoaxers discover Quantum Bogosity?
The physics establishment appears to be unable to decide whether papers submitted by two former French TV presenters are a scientific breakthrough or an elaborate hoax. The debunking to date has been done on Usenet groups and informally, over the Internet. The pranksters evaded the rigorous peer review process employed by scientific journals, and have…