Before we get to the random data, I wish to share something with you all. Out
of the blue, I got a promo email from Grammarly.com, a website that
offers an editing tool for writers. I am going to test it out on my
unfinished novel next week, but I have already used it to test for
plagiarism. I’m sure you agree that plagiarism is a rare concern
for unpublished authors, but it can happen. That’s why I am happy
to copy the following sentence into my blog entry (in exchange for
something of value from the people at Grammarly.com), and complete that sentence as an advisory to you all, to
remember when you are busy writing something new:
"I
use Grammarly to check for plagiarism because
I hate to discover, when it’s too late, that I’ve plagiarised
myself."
The
web is buzzing about a phony paper submitted to – and published by
- a distinguished Romanian science journal. I am reading the entire
paper – bits of it are terribly funny - but I suspect that most of
you have better things to do. So I am providing you with one
delicious excerpt. Please bear in mind that this phony paper was
created to prove that a decent Romanian journal might publish
anything. The article is about selecting methods of analysis
randomly, in order to analyze random data and get results.
An
Excerpt from:
EVALUATIONOF TRANSFORMATIVE HERMENEUTIC HEURISTICS FOR PROCESSING RANDOM DATA
by Prof.
PhD Dragan Z
ĐUIRIĆ, Prof. PhD Boris DELILBAŠIĆ, Doctoral student
Stevica
RADISIC
… The
first experimental results came from 2500 trial runs, and
were
not reproducible. The next batch of results come from only 50
trial
runs, and were not reproducible. Continuing with this rationale,
the
many discontinuities in the graphs point to improved precision
introduced
with our decision tree algorithms. Such a hypothesis at
first
glance seems unexpected but fell in line with our expectations.
As
hypothesized, the final run was sufficiently consistent, which
shows
the
useful convergence of our heuristics.
…
Incidentally, scholars are working on a gender-free term to replace "hermeneutics." Their work is so hush-hush, that if you search for himmeneutics or themmeneutics, Google will refer you only to hermeneutics. Try it...
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