Yes, that people are hypocrites. They are very directly contributing to the same problem they complain about. We should just do away with the response period since no one has time for it (neither authors nor reviewers).
@thegautamkamath
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Human Bias: Judging Others Harshly, Ourselves Leniently
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This is emblematic of human behaviour more broadly. We see the best in ourselves, but the worst in others. If reviewers don't respond, they are lazy or ignorant. If we don't respond, it's justified since this week was just so crazy busy! But both are the same people.
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Aperiodic Monotile Discovery Solves Longstanding Geometric Problem
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ICYMI, my @UWCheritonCS colleague Craig Kaplan (@cs_kaplan) & collaborators solved a longstanding geometric open problem: they discovered an aperiodic monotile. Check this post by @GilKalai (
https://
gilkalai.wordpress.com/2023/03/25/an-
aperiodic-monotile/
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TCS Safety Concerns Amid Growing Hype and Attention
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I think some excitement and attention is good, but I pray that TCS remains safe from this level of hype…
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AI hype fatigue drives interest toward alternative technologies
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I wish we could turn down the AI/ML hype just a little bit. Maybe I should focus on something calmer, like blockchain.
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GPT-4 Report Lacks Reproducibility Documentation
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While we're looking at source codes, I checked out the source of the GPT-4 Tech Report, and found neurips_checklist.tex (not compiled in their main.tex, I added it back in). Reproducibility answers are DEFINITELY not for this paper https://
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Jelani Minilek Honored for AddisCoder and Blackwell Research
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What a well deserved award for @minilek
! Jelani has led the heroic effort of @AddisCoder
, which introduces students in Ethiopia to the beautiful world of CS. He also co-founded the Blackwell Summer Research Institute (
https://
ww3.math.ucla.edu/david-harold-b
lackwell-summer-research-institute/
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Visiting Vector Institute for Kobbi Nissim seminar
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Working from home? Nah, working from MaRS today. First time visiting @VectorInst (in @MaRSDD
), to see @KobbiNissim
! https://
srinstitute.utoronto.ca/events-archive
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Google’s Bard Error Claims Face Credibility Questions
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To be clear, I'm taking their claim at face value for now. But I find it funny that the only way to emphasize that it isn't trained on Gmail data, is to state that it can make mistakes. A lose-lose situation, esp given the history https://
theverge.com/2023/2/8/23590
864/google-ai-chatbot-bard-mistake-error-exoplanet-demo
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