Funny Papers

On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit

• summary: “A new scientific study has found that those who are receptive to pseudo-profound, intellectual-sounding ‘bullshit’ are less intelligent, less reflective, and more likely to be believe in conspiracy theories, the paranormal and alternative medicine.”
• keywords: ‘wise-sounding quotes’, ‘pseudo-profound bullshit’
• paper: http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf
• review: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-find-a-link-between-low-intelligence-and-acceptance-of-pseudo-profound-bulls-a6757731.html
• review: http://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2015/11/30/why-do-some-people-find-deepak-chopra-quotes-deep-and-not-dung/

Sex, drugs, and violence

• arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03448

The Shortest Papers Ever Published

https://paperpile.com/blog/shortest-papers/

The Kardashian Kernel

http://oneweirdkerneltrick.com/sigbovik_2012.pdf

Visually Identifying Rank

http://oneweirdkerneltrick.com/rank.pdf

Stopping GAN Violence: Generative Unadversarial Networks

• arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02528
• github: https://github.com/albanie/SIGBOVIK17-GUNs

Deep Spreadsheets with ExcelNet

• project page: http://www.deepexcel.net/
• paper: http://www.deepexcel.net/paper.pdf