Sunday, January 4, 2015

SCIgen, a random research paper maker


SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator

"SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence." -http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

Ever had a paper to write, but felt too lazy to write it? Well just sit right back, push a button, and wallah, a "realistic feel" paper with:

* References

* Related work references

* A well though out Table of Contents

* A clear and excellent introduction

* No "Lorem Ipsum" filler, it seems real unless you dig into it, then you realize it's not a real paper.

*Charts, pie graphs, bar graphs, plotted data

If I where a busy professional that just skims over these papers, I would totally belief it is truthful.

"One useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to conferences that you suspect might have very low submission standards. A prime example, which you may recognize from spam in your inbox, is SCI/IIIS and its dozens of co-located conferences (check out the very broad conference description on the WMSCI 2005 website). There's also a list of known bogus conferences. Using SCIgen to generate submissions for conferences like this gives us pleasure to no end. In fact, one of our papers was accepted to SCI 2005! See Examples for more details.

We went to WMSCI 2005. Check out the talks and video. You can find more details in our blog." -http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

SCIgen has fooled a lot of people and institutions. It boggles the mind just how well this software works...

Here are some examples from http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ about the successes and failures this script has had in getting it's papers published... That's right, a computer program spitting out nonsense has HAD success in publishing papers to scientific journals!

"Examples

Here are two papers we submitted to WMSCI 2005:
Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy (PS, PDF)
Jeremy Stribling, Daniel Aguayo and Maxwell Krohn

This paper was accepted as a "non-reviewed" paper!

Anthony Liekens sent an inquiry to WMSCI about this situation, and received this response, with an amazing letter attached." -http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

If this hasn't bowled you over by now, then check out this interesting paper I apparently released. ;)

Relational, Adaptive Modalities for E-Commerce

Dennis Andrew Gutowski Jr

Abstract

Unified interposable modalities have led to many essential advances, including interrupts and agents. In fact, few leading analysts would disagree with the evaluation of XML, which embodies the important principles of electrical engineering [11]. Fleck, our new framework for classical configurations, is the solution to all of these grand challenges.

Table of Contents

1  Introduction


Recent advances in multimodal modalities and cacheable theory have paved the way for scatter/gather I/O. in this position paper, we disconfirm the evaluation of wide-area networks. The notion that security experts cooperate with virtual theory is generally well-received. However, semaphores alone cannot fulfill the need for multi-processors.

We describe new concurrent archetypes (Fleck), arguing that DHTs can be made client-server, robust, and reliable. Nevertheless, the visualization of extreme programming might not be the panacea that statisticians expected. Next, indeed, Lamport clocks and object-oriented languages have a long history of cooperating in this manner. Therefore, we see no reason not to use the development of red-black trees to study the construction of write-back caches.

This work presents three advances above prior work. To begin with, we validate not only that consistent hashing and scatter/gather I/O are always incompatible, but that the same is true for forward-error correction. Second, we present a novel algorithm for the refinement of I/O automata (Fleck), which we use to confirm that forward-error correction can be made amphibious, peer-to-peer, and collaborative. We concentrate our efforts on demonstrating that cache coherence can be made linear-time, ubiquitous, and wearable.

The rest of this paper is organized as follows. For starters, we motivate the need for the UNIVAC computer. Along these same lines, to answer this grand challenge, we propose an empathic tool for constructing hierarchical databases [11] (Fleck), which we use to show that DHTs can be made certifiable, empathic, and signed. Along these same lines, we prove the analysis of Smalltalk. In the end, we conclude.

2  Architecture


In this section, we explore a design for simulating virtual methodologies. Fleck does not require such an extensive prevention to run correctly, but it doesn't hurt. Furthermore, Figure 1 depicts the relationship between Fleck and the deployment of B-trees. See our existing technical report [3] for details.


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Figure 1: An architectural layout diagramming the relationship between our system and event-driven technology.

Rather than synthesizing the deployment of information retrieval systems, Fleck chooses to manage the exploration of multicast methodologies. We assume that each component of Fleck prevents checksums, independent of all other components. Though such a claim is always a confusing intent, it fell in line with our expectations. Any typical emulation of the development of cache coherence that would allow for further study into voice-over-IP will clearly require that the foremost heterogeneous algorithm for the investigation of web browsers by C. Maruyama is in Co-NP; our algorithm is no different. We instrumented a day-long trace demonstrating that our model is feasible. We show our framework's heterogeneous study in Figure 1.

Reality aside, we would like to investigate a methodology for how our solution might behave in theory. Next, Figure 1 depicts the methodology used by our methodology. We use our previously analyzed results as a basis for all of these assumptions. Although cyberinformaticians rarely hypothesize the exact opposite, Fleck depends on this property for correct behavior.

3  Implementation


Our implementation of our system is "smart", metamorphic, and extensible. End-users have complete control over the hacked operating system, which of course is necessary so that the location-identity split and Web services can connect to fulfill this ambition. Fleck is composed of a codebase of 83 B files, a server daemon, and a server daemon. We omit these results for now. We have not yet implemented the centralized logging facility, as this is the least unproven component of Fleck. Our solution is composed of a hacked operating system, a client-side library, and a codebase of 90 Lisp files.

4  Results


We now discuss our performance analysis. Our overall evaluation approach seeks to prove three hypotheses: (1) that object-oriented languages have actually shown improved 10th-percentile energy over time; (2) that instruction rate is an outmoded way to measure expected throughput; and finally (3) that mean block size stayed constant across successive generations of Macintosh SEs. Our evaluation strives to make these points clear.

4.1  Hardware and Software Configuration



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Figure 2: The expected bandwidth of our system, as a function of instruction rate.

Our detailed evaluation methodology necessary many hardware modifications. We instrumented a packet-level deployment on UC Berkeley's desktop machines to quantify extremely efficient technology's effect on P. Zhao's deployment of lambda calculus in 1999. had we deployed our desktop machines, as opposed to simulating it in courseware, we would have seen improved results. Primarily, we added 200GB/s of Ethernet access to the KGB's network to examine the NV-RAM space of our network. Further, we added more USB key space to our decommissioned Macintosh SEs to better understand archetypes. The ROM described here explain our unique results. Next, we removed 3MB/s of Wi-Fi throughput from our mobile telephones to discover information. Along these same lines, French system administrators doubled the ROM space of our Planetlab cluster.


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Figure 3: These results were obtained by Miller et al. [4]; we reproduce them here for clarity.

Fleck runs on hacked standard software. Our experiments soon proved that making autonomous our random Knesis keyboards was more effective than autogenerating them, as previous work suggested. We implemented our Smalltalk server in Python, augmented with provably exhaustive extensions. All of these techniques are of interesting historical significance; Dennis Ritchie and Venugopalan Ramasubramanian investigated an entirely different setup in 1953.

4.2  Dogfooding Fleck


Our hardware and software modficiations exhibit that deploying our algorithm is one thing, but emulating it in courseware is a completely different story. Seizing upon this approximate configuration, we ran four novel experiments: (1) we ran red-black trees on 33 nodes spread throughout the 1000-node network, and compared them against hierarchical databases running locally; (2) we measured NV-RAM throughput as a function of flash-memory space on an Apple Newton; (3) we ran 32 trials with a simulated database workload, and compared results to our middleware simulation; and (4) we measured database and Web server throughput on our ubiquitous testbed.

Now for the climactic analysis of experiments (1) and (3) enumerated above. Note the heavy tail on the CDF in Figure 2, exhibiting duplicated expected energy. The data in Figure 3, in particular, proves that four years of hard work were wasted on this project [4]. Operator error alone cannot account for these results.

Shown in Figure 2, the second half of our experiments call attention to Fleck's 10th-percentile clock speed. We scarcely anticipated how accurate our results were in this phase of the evaluation. Next, the data in Figure 3, in particular, proves that four years of hard work were wasted on this project. Next, the results come from only 4 trial runs, and were not reproducible.

Lastly, we discuss the second half of our experiments. Note that Figure 3 shows the 10th-percentile and not effective partitioned block size. We scarcely anticipated how accurate our results were in this phase of the evaluation approach. Of course, all sensitive data was anonymized during our courseware deployment.

5  Related Work


In designing Fleck, we drew on existing work from a number of distinct areas. Gupta et al. developed a similar application, contrarily we argued that Fleck is Turing complete [13]. Anderson et al. explored several ambimorphic methods, and reported that they have tremendous inability to effect RAID. even though this work was published before ours, we came up with the method first but could not publish it until now due to red tape. Therefore, the class of heuristics enabled by Fleck is fundamentally different from prior approaches [6,10].

The simulation of extensible epistemologies has been widely studied [7]. Bhabha developed a similar framework, on the other hand we showed that Fleck runs in O(n2) time [9]. We believe there is room for both schools of thought within the field of pipelined software engineering. Continuing with this rationale, Fleck is broadly related to work in the field of stochastic electrical engineering by Zhao et al., but we view it from a new perspective: the evaluation of the Internet [8]. Fleck also prevents multicast algorithms, but without all the unnecssary complexity. Therefore, despite substantial work in this area, our solution is clearly the application of choice among information theorists [11]. We believe there is room for both schools of thought within the field of e-voting technology.

While we know of no other studies on online algorithms, several efforts have been made to measure forward-error correction [12]. Obviously, comparisons to this work are astute. On a similar note, the original solution to this quagmire [14] was bad; nevertheless, such a hypothesis did not completely solve this issue. On a similar note, Thompson [1] developed a similar method, contrarily we disproved that Fleck follows a Zipf-like distribution. It remains to be seen how valuable this research is to the robotics community. Thusly, despite substantial work in this area, our method is apparently the approach of choice among mathematicians [2].

6  Conclusion


Fleck will address many of the issues faced by today's cyberneticists. On a similar note, to address this challenge for classical algorithms, we explored an analysis of telephony. We demonstrated that even though the foremost highly-available algorithm for the investigation of the memory bus by Rodney Brooks [5] is maximally efficient, e-commerce can be made "fuzzy", wireless, and client-server. The evaluation of thin clients is more structured than ever, and our framework helps end-users do just that.

References

[1]
Agarwal, R., and Knuth, D. Bayesian epistemologies for kernels. Journal of Cacheable, Certifiable Theory 10 (Aug. 2000), 75-99.
[2]
Dijkstra, E., Hamming, R., Simon, H., Watanabe, a., and Ito, B. A case for Scheme. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Game-Theoretic Technology (Sept. 2005).
[3]
Gupta, a., and Yao, A. A case for local-area networks. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Scalable Theory (Jan. 2004).
[4]
Jr, D. A. G. Decoupling Boolean logic from information retrieval systems in the lookaside buffer. In Proceedings of INFOCOM (Nov. 1998).
[5]
Jr, D. A. G., and Bose, F. Evaluation of neural networks. In Proceedings of PLDI (May 2001).
[6]
Lampson, B., and Hennessy, J. Decoupling Voice-over-IP from sensor networks in Markov models. In Proceedings of IPTPS (Aug. 2002).
[7]
Leary, T., and Ritchie, D. Improving virtual machines and SMPs. Journal of Electronic Methodologies 5 (Oct. 2000), 20-24.
[8]
Lee, D., and Newton, I. Visualizing architecture using ambimorphic symmetries. In Proceedings of the Conference on Bayesian Symmetries (Dec. 1997).
[9]
Milner, R. Von Neumann machines no longer considered harmful. In Proceedings of HPCA (Mar. 2005).
[10]
Needham, R., Zhou, L., and Wilkes, M. V. The impact of amphibious algorithms on operating systems. In Proceedings of MOBICOM (Jan. 1995).
[11]
Shenker, S. A case for architecture. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Extensible Algorithms (July 2000).
[12]
Smith, a., Garcia, V. S., Jr, D. A. G., Jr, D. A. G., and Taylor, V. Deconstructing the Turing machine. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Authenticated Models (Apr. 2001).
[13]
Wu, L., and Martinez, R. A study of the UNIVAC computer. In Proceedings of SIGMETRICS (Apr. 1993).
[14]
Zheng, B. Client-server, classical modalities. In Proceedings of the USENIX Security Conference (Oct. 1997).

Friday, December 26, 2014

The end of Plancake


Plancake announced December 24th, 2014 via mass email that they would be shutting their doors by November 30th of 2015.

I had signed up and used Plancake a few times.

While I personally didn't have much to use the personal task manager for, I saw a greatly useful utility for a lot of people.

And it is free, so I am a fan.

This is the email I received 2 days ago:

"Hi.

Sadly Plancake is going to shut down on the 30st November 2015.

This will give us all almost one year of time to find an alternative product and move our tasks over.

I suggest you should have a look at Wunderlist.com - I believe it is a great product and they have a powerful free account.

Please make sure you move all your data by the 30th November 2015, as it will not be available after that date.

This has not been an easy decision to take but I believe it is the best one for both the company and our users.

Please get in touch should you need any clarification or help.

Thanks a lot for the time you have spent with us and sorry for the inconvenience caused by this discontinuation.

It has been a great ride, I have really enjoyed this experience personally (with its highs and lows) but all good things need to end at some point.

Good luck with your endeavours.

Thank you,
Dan"



It's sad to see a great idea not make it. Hopefully this is a re-structure and not the end, per-say.

The website is becoming available, so if you want plancake.com, take action.

"Plancake is shutting down on the 30th November 2015 (more details here).

If you would like to buy this domain (together with plancake.co.uk, plancake.it, plancake.jp and plancake.org), please contact us at:
contact [at] danyuki.com" -http://www.plancake.com/

As a personal note to Dan, thanks for a great free service and a great idea!

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Denny's Home World turns 100,000!


A while back I wrote about the strange history of Denny's Home World.

That article can be seen here:
http://dennygoot.blogspot.com/2012/06/history-of-dennys-home-world.html

But just as a recap, I started writing DHW out of boredom.

For the longest time DHW had absolutely no direction.

In 2009 it received a real direction, my passion for Linux, Open Source, and just technology in general.

Well, I had to toot my own horn here, because a milestone has been reached, and one I never thought would happen.

Denny's Home World has now had 100,000 page views.

Here's the proof:


The funny thing about this strange phenomenon is that I am not linked to a Youtube channel, I am not much of a advertiser, and I don't advertise (any more, i did try it for a short while as a test program) here on DHW either, meaning bots are less attracted to DHW (or so I've heard).

I just post what peaks my interest.

So thank you for your patronage.

In honor of this event, the website got a complete makeover, which you see now.

Thanks again,
-Denny

P.S. Please don't post about how awful that opening header image is, it's the original from the old DHW from the mid 90's.

Monday, December 8, 2014

PhotoFunia - add a spark to your photos

While monking around on the internet, I stumbled upon this website: PhotoFunia.com

It's amazing just what you can do with a picture here.

Want to show the one you love that you care? Make a an art exhibit out of her.

Want to make a cool picture of your friend's obsession with coffee? Put his or her face in the foam on top.

This is just a tiny fraction of the cool things you can do with this website!

Here's what the PhotoFunia people have to say about their website:

"PhotoFunia is the best way to add a spark to your photos, make them special and more original. In only a few seconds an amazing photo collage is ready, absolutely free. PhotoFunia is so straight forward to use, that anyone, at any age, can use it with ease.

Would you like to see your picture on the cover of a magazine or on advertising billboards of Times Square? How amazing will it be to see your portrait on the walls of Louvre or Hermitage museums? Want to try out an astronaut or a Santa suit? Or you prefer something more exotic, just like a dancer at the Rio's carnival? Excited to find out how good you look with a witch's hat or a queen's crown on? Perhaps you're just looking for a nice frame for your photos on a special occasion?

Make your own mark on the sand or write graffiti text on the wall, carve your name on the ground or create your very own road sign using our fantastic text effects. To add shadows, age your photo or render it black and white just visit Filters category.

A myriad of hundreds of effects is waiting for you. Our effects library is always expanding and every week you can find something new. As previously mentioned, using PhotoFunia couldn't be simpler: pick you desired effect, upload your photo and viola! All in all in just two simple steps and you have your very own work of art ready to save, send via email or share with your friends on a social site.

Take PhotoFunia with you wherever you go and create stunning images on your mobile or tablet with our great mobile apps.

Today, just like on the first day on the job on 11th of August 2007, we strive to make our users happy, as we continue to add new picture effects, explore different options for your photos and hopefully place genuine smiles on people's faces." -http://photofunia.com/about

I personally made the "art exhibit" option with pictures of my sister, and she loved it!

Here is an idea of the options available at PhotoFunia.com:











So if you love the things you can pull off here, here's the link again: (Picture below)


Thursday, December 4, 2014

Kenguru - Simple, easy, inexpensive to use vehicle for the wheelchair bound community

"The KENGURU® gives you the independence you have been looking for! Whether it is commuting to and from work, visiting family and relatives or just meeting up with some friends to have fun, the KENGURU® will help you to do it on your own." -http://www.kenguru.com/

The Kenguru is a great idea when it comes to transportation for those who are wheel chair bound.

While you will not win any land speed records with it (25 mph is said to be close to it's top speed), it can get you from point a to point b within 50 miles on one charge.

In order to be easy to use, and minimal in size, it is an electrical vehicle. While this does give some limitations to the Kenguru (as noted above), it makes it short enough to the road for easy access, and yet large enough on the inside to make for an excellent vehicle for this purpose. (In my opinion).

If you like what you see (Images and video below) then you can reserve a Kenguru today.

The link for reservations is here:
http://www.kenguru.com/reserve-your-kenguru/

Here is a video on Youtube by the Kenguru group:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-lqr_TXRcQ

And here are some pics of the car, including interior thanks to Kenguru's Gallery page:







Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Resc-a-tux to the rescue


"Rescatux is a Debian-based GNU/Linux live distribution that includes a graphical wizard for rescuing broken GNU/Linux installations. The available rescue options include restoring the GRUB bootloader after a Windows installation, Linux and Windows password resets, and Linux file system checks. " -DistroWatch

I've used fix distro's like this in the past, but this one I love. It's only in beta, but the thing I love about it is their focus on ease of use.

Hirem's Boot CD for instance is a great tool, but it's focus is not ease of use, but power. I love Hirem's because of the power, but I think Rescatux is going to be Hirem's (some day) mixed with that Ubuntu-esque ease of use and "it all just works on boot" feel I love.

Here's what the Resc-a-Tux folks have to say about their software:
*And here's the tour video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nII0zph4Rww

Rescatux is a GNU/Linux rescue cd (and eventually also Windows) but it is not like other rescue disks. Rescatux comes with Rescapp. Rescapp is a nice wizard that will guide you through your rescue tasks. 

GRUB options:

Restore GRUB and GRUB2
(>=0.31 beta 4) Update any GRUB2 menues
Update Debian/Ubuntu grub menues
Windows options:

Restore Windows MBR (BETA)
Clear Windows passwords
(>=0.31 beta 4) Promote a Windows user to Administrator role
(>=0.31 beta 4) Unlock Windows user
Password options:

Change Gnu/Linux Password
Regenerate sudoers file
Clear Windows passwords
Filesystem options:

File System Check (Forced Fix) (BETA)
Support options:

Help
Web
Chat
Show log
Share log
Share log on forum
Boot Info Script

Expert tools:

(>=0.31 beta 3) boot-repair 3.199
(>=0.31 beta 1) Gparted 0.12
(>=0.31 beta 3) os-uninstaller 3.199
(>=0.31 beta 3) clean-ubiquity 3.199
(>=0.31 beta 3) photorec
(>=0.31 beta 3) testdisk 6.13
CLI Programs:

(>=0.31 beta 1) Gpart 0.1h-11+b1
The different approach of Rescatux is found in its main program: Rescapp. Rescapp is a nice wizard that will guide you through your rescue tasks.



At the first glance Rescapp seems to be just a launcher for Rescue tools:

However it has some Support features that make it unique:

Chat: Open the chat for asking help directly in Rescatux channel.
Share log: After running an option you can share its log (the action registry that it has done) so that in the chat they can help you better. O better, even, you can help debug and fix Rescatux bugs on the fly.

Share log on forum: Prepares a forum post alike text so that you can just copy and paste it in your favourite forum. Logs are nicely inserted into it with [CODE] symbols.

Boot Info Script: Run Boot Info Script option to share your computer configuration (specially boot one).
More than this the non-support features such as:

Check and fix filesystems 
Blank Windows passwords 
Change Gnu/Linux password 
Regenerate sudoers file 
Restore Grub 
Update Grub Configuration 
Restore Windows MBR (BETA) 
are being driven with nice wizards :

Features explained:

Check and fix filesystems 

When a filesystem has some errors in it some bad things might happen. Maybe GRUB1 or GRUB2 cannot find its own files (Grub errors) or the kernels (cannot find file error). Maybe the kernel can be loaded but its initrd stage isn’t able to find the final device root filesystem (Kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs. (initramfs))

This option tries to fix this filesystem errors even if the filesystem seems to be clean and ok.

Clear Windows passwords 

The old chntpasswd program has been hacked so that you can use it from a GUI. You can just select your Windows drive and the user you want its password to be cleared.

Change Gnu/Linux password 

Have you ever forgotten your Gnu/Linux password? Now you can change it from this nice wizard. As always you’re prompted to choose your Gnu/Linux installation and then the user which you want to change its password.

Regenerate sudoers file 

Have you ever tried to run an special program as a normal user… but by doing it you have somehow borked your /etc/sudoers file? Don’t panic! Now after baking up your previous sudoers file a new one is generated on the fly. You just have to select which it’s your user.

Restore Grub 

Not sure what’s the current situation with Windows 8 and Windows 7 but in previous versions once you reinstalled Windows (because of a virus or whatever reason) you lost your Grub menu. That meant that you couldn’t boot anymore into your Gnu/Linux system. The truth is that you can download the light-weight Super Grub2 Disk and boot into your system in a temporal way.

But how to fix it permanently? If you’re not good at the Gnu/Linux command line you can just use Rescatux’s Restore Grub option.

Update Grub Menues 

Sometimes the Grub configuration is no longer valid. Either your hard disks order at boot have changed (It should only affect to GRUB1) or you have added a new Windows installation and it’s not detected.

Update Grub option let’s you rebuild your Grub configuration files. This option will only work in Debian based distros like Ubuntu.

Restore Windows MBR (BETA) 

This option tries to restore Windows MBR but it’s kind of buggy because some users report that it’s not working for them. It probably works with no problem on Windows XP (without dynamic disks) and previous Windows versions. This is the reason why it’s a BETA option.

Super Grub2 Disk

You shouldn’t forget that Super Grub2 Disk is also included in Rescatux.

Architecture detection

Either you have an old 32bit system or a new 64bit system Grub2 integrated into Rescatux will detect it and load the corresponding kernel. 


If you would like to get Resc-a-Tux, here is the download page:

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Great Little Book Shelf

Great Little Book Shelf
Thanks to a post left here by a reader, I was made aware of this unique program.

I downloaded the 64 bit .deb version at https://sites.google.com/site/greatlittlebookshelf/

Then I installed it in Ubuntu using gdebi.

It runs very well, and I am impressed with how functional it is, given that it is still in beta.

The only issue I have is that currently it only views pdf format, and I am an epub user.

That aside, I think there is a user base that would love this software package, so I am bringing it to your attention.

The program was written by Dejan Petrovic. (Not to be confused with the tennis pro..)

Here is a video showing the handy-ness of this program:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shUfCEv9o-0

Here are some screenshots of the program: