Are you referring to the acceptance rate? It was 37%. Seems relatively high, compared to ML conferences. But STOC/FOCS are incredibly self selective.
@thegautamkamath
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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://
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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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NeurIPS 2022 Rejected Papers Now Public for Review
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#NeurIPS2022 papers and reviews are now public, including "Rejected Papers that Opted In for Public Release." Please share your favourite rejected papers (by you or others) in this thread! Show us tough but quality reviews, how reviewing is broken, etc. https://
openreview.net/group?id=NeurI
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Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality publishes TPDP 2021 papers
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A new issue of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality (
@JPrivConf
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, @RasmusPagh1
, @Kobbini and more. Check it out! https://
journalprivacyconfidentiality.org/index.php/jpc/
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Differential Privacy Composition Basics Explained Accessibly
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A new technical post by Thomas Steinke (
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differentialprivacy.org/composition-ba
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