#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://
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NeurIPS 2022 Rejected Papers Now Public for Review
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Google Scholar pricing and Semantic Scholar as billionaire-funded alternative
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It would actually be more comforting if Google charged something reasonable to institutions for Scholar. Interestingly, competitor @SemanticScholar appears to be the result of a billionaire's endowment (the Allen Institute for AI), so maybe it represents a long-term alternative.
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Passive Optical Components Reduce Client Device Energy Consumption
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An interesting way to reduce energy use on client devices by doing more work via passive optical components. // @MIT_CSAIL // #AI #machinelearning #deeplearning #photonics
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6.4M AI-Generated Images Map Reveals Human Interests
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Worth exploring: a map of 6.4M million images generated by AI, grouped by what the AI considers to similar images.
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 1 novembre 2022
Why you might want to explore it: it shows you what kinds of images humans are interested in; it teaches new prompts; & has surprising art.https://t.co/t1oUai8HJNWorth exploring: a map of 6.4M million images generated by AI, grouped by what the AI considers to similar images. Why you might want to explore it: it shows you what kinds of images humans are interested in; it teaches new prompts; & has surprising art.
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Standardized Testing Fails to Differentiate Among Thousands of Students
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There is a failure of standardized testing as it cannot distinguish between 10,000+ students. The SAT and GRE are too easy, especially the math sections.
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Bonus Incentives Double Escape Room Success Rates Study
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We know incentive pay boosts performance at jobs, but do bonuses also work for complex & non-routine tasks as well? Yes! Cool experiment finds that being given a small bonus for quickly solving an escape room doubles the chance people escape in 45 minutes https://
cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_
wp6903.pdf
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Yann LeCun’s 1998 gradient-based deep learning paper breakthrough
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#otd in 1998 Yann LeCun submitted a paper on “gradient-based” deep learning for document recognition. It took more than a decade before the world finally warmed to neural networks: https://
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Generative AI Deserves More Nuanced Media Coverage
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Generative AI warrants a whole lot more nuanced, considerate coverage like this IMO
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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 (
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, @Kobbini and more. Check it out! https://
journalprivacyconfidentiality.org/index.php/jpc/
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AI Predicts World Cup Soccer Game Outcomes and Goals
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Can #AI predict who wins a game? In a special project to celebrate the world’s biggest football/soccer tournament kicking off later this month, we set out to determine the likelihood of scoring a goal #2022WorldCup Learn more