The snarXiv is a ran­dom high-energy the­ory paper gen­er­a­tor incor­po­rat­ing all the lat­est trends, entropic rea­son­ing, and excit­ing mod­uli spaces. The arXiv is sim­i­lar, but occa­sion­ally less random.

Actu­ally, the snarXiv only gen­er­ates tan­ta­liz­ing titles and abstracts at the moment, while the arXiv deliv­ers match­ing papers as well. Details of the imple­men­ta­tion are below. I’m the author, and I don’t remem­ber exactly why I decided to do this. I did already have the frame­work lying around from a pre­vi­ous project, and I swear I spent more time doing research last week­end than imple­ment­ing snarXiv.org.

Sug­gested Uses for the snarXiv

• If you’re a grad­u­ate stu­dent, gloomily read through the abstracts, think­ing to your­self that you don’t under­stand papers on the real arXiv any better.
• If you’re a post-doc, reload until you find some­thing to work on.
• If you’re a pro­fes­sor, get really excited when a paper claims to solve the hier­ar­chy prob­lem, the lit­tle hier­ar­chy prob­lem, the mu prob­lem, and the con­fine­ment prob­lem. Then expe­ri­ence pro­found disappointment.
• If you’re a famous physi­cist, keep reload­ing until you see your name on some­thing, then claim credit for it.

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