Taylor Swift singlehandedly setting back AI research more than any legislation could
@thegautamkamath
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NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks Reviews Released
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#NeurIPS2024 Datasets and Benchmarks reviews are out. Enjoy your Friday evening and weekend everyone!
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Reviewer discretion in peer review discussions and paper championing
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Seems like a fine interaction. The reviewer should not be obligated to participate in any sort of discussion. They might have said, behind the scenes, that despite their initial positive score, they're unwilling to champion the paper over other (potentially negative) reviewers
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Collaborative quantum research work with Schmidhuber and colleagues
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He talked about this work, with Alexander Schmidhuber, @UWCheritonCS @QuantumIQC alumnus @RobinKothari
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Ryan O’Donnell’s Distinguished Tutte Lecture at Waterloo
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We're lucky to have Ryan O'Donnell (
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Copyright Traps Paper Enhances Membership Inference Attacks Detection
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Quoted in nice article by @Melissahei
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ICML 2024 Best Paper from UW Cheriton CS
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Another great article, covering our #ICML2024 best paper, from the incredible Joe Petrik of @UWCheritonCS
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Paper Rejections and Awards: Questioning Peer Review Reliability
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b) This paper was effectively rejected three times, and then received a best paper award. Were the rejecting reviewers wrong? Or were the #ICML2024 reviewers? I don't know, most important is that I really like the paper. In either case, don't take paper awards too seriously. 21/n
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Career Rejection and Resilience in Academic Research
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There aren't "supposed" to be takeaways here, just sharing my personal experience. Nonetheless:
a) Rejections can sting at all stages of your career. I'm pretty used to it by now. And a single paper doesn't change my career. But I still took this one really hard. 20/n -
Research Award Recognition and Shifting Career Priorities
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And two weeks ago, we were lucky to hear that we got a best papers award. Thank you reviewers, committee, track chair @marsdancer
! I was ecstatic, though as both my life and career priorities have shifted, it doesn't feel as significant to me as it once might have. 19/n