"…there are many committed grants that the Future Fund will be unable to honor." The #NeurIPS2022 ML Safety Workshop (
https://
neurips2022.mlsafety.org) had an eye-watering $100k of awards for best papers and AI risk analyses. Given all the turmoil, I presume these are getting the axe?
@thegautamkamath
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Future Fund crisis threatens NeurIPS ML Safety workshop grants
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Graduate School Application Guide: SOP and Recommendation Letters
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Many students are confused when applying to grad school. Who to ask for letters, writing SoP, etc. Some resources on SoP: https://
let-all.com/assets/slides/
How-to-COLT-Boaz.pdf
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@boazbaraktcs
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let-all.com/assets/slides/
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University of Waterloo Algorithms Complexity Group Seeking Postdocs
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Differential Privacy in 2020 US Census: Key Concerns
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OpenReview Verification Launch Without Cost
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Just noticed this green check on @openreviewnet
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Paper Review Assessment: Strengths and Weaknesses Analysis
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Correct, some is cut off. The reviewers also give a brief summary of the paper and list two strengths and weaknesses. I don't know the area/work, but at a glance, certainly not the worst review I've ever seen. (Not linking here to avoid a pile-on)
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Paper Review Quality Assessment in AI Research
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Correct, some is cut off. The reviewers also give a brief summary of the paper and list two strengths and weaknesses. I don't know the area/work, but at a glance, certainly not the worst review I've ever seen. (Not linking here to avoid a pile-on)
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ICLR Code of Conduct and Organizer Authority Questioned
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Responding to Peer Reviews: Ethics and Professional Conduct
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How NOT to respond to reviewers. Getting paper reviews can be emotional, but try to be kind and not resort to personal attacks. Instead, this author chose to lash out, leading to impressively quick reprimand from the PC chairs. And there will be no anonymity after decisions.
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Academic Review Process Rigor and Accountability Critique
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I learned more about the potential of overlap from your tweets than this metareview. That shows how lazy the metareview is. If the AC's gonna wield significant power to overturn three reviewers, they have to do more work than this. Read the paper and point out the exact overlap