Monday, August 30, 2021

"Scholars discover a mysterious wave of scientific papers using odd, "tortured phrases"

 Scholars discover a mysterious wave of scientific papers using odd, "tortured phrases"

Chart of "tortured phrases" from Nature

Last spring, Guillaume Cabanac—a computer scientist at the University of Toulouse—and two colleagues noticed a weird trend: A surge of published comp-sci academic papers that were using weird phrases in place of well-established ones (previously at Boing Boing).

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