Unethical pro-tip: if you're an AC and you want to make someone else look bad, write a terrible meta-review and demand citations to many of their papers. Reminder that, despite the repeated authors here, we don't know who the ACs are. Don't jump to conclusions.
@thegautamkamath
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Empathetic peer review in AI research publication process
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Usually, we think of AC rejections and being cold and uncaring. But this AC was quite empathetic, picking up on a self-critical comment from the author and supporting them in their journey. https://
openreview.net/forum?id=A6O79
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Paper Rejection Despite Acceptance Scores Highlights Review Process Issues
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The paper was rejected despite all scores being "Accept" or better, because the AC says they didn't compare with some other papers, which were never mentioned before. The AC should have raised this to the authors earlier, or figured out the relevance with help of the reviewers.
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Tom Burns Shares Thoughtful Response to Peer Reviewers
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Tom (
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Detecting Non-Gaussian Distributions in Machine Learning Models
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The easiest way to see this is to fix the mean to be 0 and then observe that the returned value will never be negative. Thus it can't be Gaussian. Definitely not easy to spot.
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STOC FOCS Conference Acceptance Rate Comparison Analysis
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Are you referring to the acceptance rate? It was 37%. Seems relatively high, compared to ML conferences. But STOC/FOCS are incredibly self selective.
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Scholar Submits Nine Papers to FOCS Conference
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Who is this person submitting 9 papers to FOCS? https://
x.com/ccanonne_/stat
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Monetizing Digital Badges: Why Users Pay for Status Symbols
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I'm confused who would pay $8/month for a badge that conveys "I'm a sucker who pays $8/month for this badge" and nothing more. Then again, this works for cosmetics in video games, so
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Verification Badge Economics: Authenticity or Paid Status?
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Verification officially marks that "an account of public interest is authentic." Most people want verification because it makes them seem important/better than other ppl. This changes the semantic meaning: X paid $8/month. Is the hope people will conflate with the previous one?
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Adversarial Robustness Learning Theory Paper Review Process Critique
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"Adversarially Robust Learning with Tolerance" by @ashtiani_hassan
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