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SnarXiv
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snarXiv is a website spoofing the high-energy physics section (hep-th) of the popular electronic scientific paper repository arXiv. It was created in March 2010 by David Simmons-Duffin, a 3rd year Ph.D. student at Harvard University studying theoretical high-energy physics. The name snarXiv is a contraction of the words "snark" and "arXiv." Description The titles and abstracts of fake papers are generated using a context-free grammar. The implementation uses Perl and OCaml, with source files posted on the website itself. Visitors are encouraged to play the game of arXiv vs. snarXiv: they are presented with a series of plausible-sounding pairs of titles and need to determine which of them is real. The program keeps the score, making snarky comments ranging from "Nobel Prize winner" for 100% success rate to "Crackpot", "9th year grad student" and "Worse than a monkey" for being wrong most of the time. See Also
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