It literally quotes a fictional TV show in the synopsis and directly in the paper. Are you seriously not getting that is is fiction?
Why would they have this in the actual PDF?
"Finally, Pied Piper has recently claimed to employ ML techniques in its Middle-Out algorithm (Judge et al., 2016), although their nature is shrouded in mystery"
This is promotion, they are getting a fake paper to permeate throughout the internet. If I had to guess, I would say they are making a statement about reproducing results in academia and not taking a single paper as gospel. If so, I think they are making their point pretty well.
Okay, it may be. It is something that can be done from a technical level for sure, given enough training data and enough data on the client side to do reconstructions.
I guess once you get popular enough you can get TV consultants who can propose real solutions as TV props. Heh.
Why would they have this in the actual PDF?
"Finally, Pied Piper has recently claimed to employ ML techniques in its Middle-Out algorithm (Judge et al., 2016), although their nature is shrouded in mystery"
This is promotion, they are getting a fake paper to permeate throughout the internet. If I had to guess, I would say they are making a statement about reproducing results in academia and not taking a single paper as gospel. If so, I think they are making their point pretty well.