Verbosities

My discoveries and associated ramblings

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

NoEntropy.net
Sometimes you need truly random numbers. For that there's random.org. Other times, pseudo-random numbers are sufficient. On the other end of the spectrum, you will find easily predictable sequences and patterns. If you really need an extreme lack of randomness, try generating lists of numbers at NoEntropy.net. It's the ultimate source of predictability.

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator
This is too funny! Some MIT students wrote a program, which you can try out at their web site, which randomly generates computer science research papers, complete with illustrations. Of course, the papers are meaningless, but they look pretty good!

The funniest part is that they submitted one of the random papers to a conference and it was accepted! They are supposed to present the paper in person at the conference in July in Orlando. They promise to read it with a straight face and put a video of it on their web site. I look forward to this. They even collected enough PayPal donations to pay for their trip.

Saturday, April 02, 2005


This is another test of BloggerBot.

This is a test of BloggerBot. Posted by Hello