Yeah we go way back, to undergrad at Cornell in 2011, and also some overlap in grad school. I really liked his #ICML2022 paper (co-led with @andrew_ilyas and @logan_engstrom
) so I'm excited to see what he's been up to since! https://
arxiv.org/abs/2202.00622
@thegautamkamath
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ICML 2022 Machine Learning Research Recognition and Academic Collaboration
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TRAK Talk: Machine Learning Interpretability Research
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Beyond LLMs: Pursuing Diverse AI Research Areas Over Hype
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Maybe I'm taking the bait, but I find this advice misguided and kind of rude. There are many interesting & worthwhile research areas beyond LLMs. I hope people continue to lead and push forward in other areas, rather than being a follower in the area with the most money and hype
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CHI Best Paper Award Semantics and Selection Criteria
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CHI has a slightly different semantics for best paper than other conferences. Based on the selectivity rate, I read it more like an "Oral" at NeurIPS (another imperfect but probably not super harmful system). I personally don't like the term "best" here due to the inconsistency
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Rapid AI Image Generation Speed Amazes Users
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How do you generate these beautiful pictures so fast? He posted this only 16 minutes before!
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Claude Shannon’s Award: Century-Long Recognition of Computing Pioneer
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…it can occasionally be both, like Claude E. Shannon, who was the first winner of the Claude E. Shannon Award. But seriously, I can't believe he had to wait until 102 years old!
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C.R. Rao Receives Prestigious Award After Legendary Career
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C. R. Rao is such a legendary Statistician that I assumed the award was named after him, not being given to him… Surprised it took this long!
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ICML Reviewer Feedback Form Raises Concerns About Research Evaluation
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One person named "ICML reviewer" left a comment on my anonymous feedback form (
https://
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI
pQLSeaGCkEdvrnEobtQuj7zlyjdkV4dKKHiNdioen2X0BhtSZL0w/viewform
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Academic Reviewers Laziness in Paper Review Process
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Hot take: ACs can be the laziest folks in reviewing Avg AC prolly:
-Autopick reviewers
-Don't read paper
-Send form OpenReview msgs to missing reviewer (if lucky)
-Don't discuss with or prompt reviewers
-Threshold scores (late)
-Call it a day
Can any reviewers/SACs refute?