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Sophisticated verbiage does not make one, ipso facto, appear eloquent and cerebral. Quite contrary, perchance it may make one seem ... claudish... (This comment is brought to you by Grading Claas)

Once again, if you are a senior researcher spreading doom to junior researchers, shut up shut up shut up. It’s your job to figure out a path forward, even in high uncertainty times. Come back when you have something constructive.

I think an important question to ask with any new AI research result now is: "What would the output have been if you had given the resources (just the money, not the model) to a few math departments and had them hire some good grad students." Economy is about efficiency, not just outcomes.

Alexander Kasprzyk@amkasprzyk.bsky.social · 6d ago

OpenAI didn’t simply stumble upon all these results down the side of the sofa whilst cleaning. They chose to systematically invest huge sums of money to produce them. And to keep on going. And going. And going. They systematically took our motivational questions, perhaps with the… #MathSky #LLM

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

⏰ More time to submit! ⏰ We hope your drafts are getting into shape and we got good news! The #oopsiedata workshop @ #CoRL2026 🤖 deadline is now October 5th. Polish up your work and send it our way! We are looking forward to all the excellent submissions!

Claas Voelcker@cvoelcker.bsky.social · 3w ago

⏰ The deadline for our workshop workshop.oopsie-data.com on imperfect data at CoRL is nearing! ⏰ While you 🤖 are making progress on submissions, we came up with cool awards 🏆. Our workshop on imperfect data will award not only papers but also data submissions. The categories you can submit to 🥁...

Happy Raccoon Appreciation Day for all you non detached-home-owners out there!

Benito the Funny Raccoon

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At this point "I know how openreview and paperplaza work" should be the qualifications for instant hire as a faculty.

Cries in academese

I’m annoyed by all the academics stressing “quality over quantity” as a tonic for the LLM deluge of results / crap. People have been saying this for years. Either setup a compact with some language on putting this in hiring documents/recommendations/etc. or stop saying it.

The major open question of our times remains: will we go down the Path of Dune, or the Path of 40k? Either way, expect more and exciting confrontations between the Catholics and AI

Mark Riedl@markriedl.bsky.social · 2w ago

Things are getting weird

We always stop at the boring ones! Why not Guncle of AI, weird step-brother of AI, 2nd Cousin twice removed of AI, my great-aunt's lady friend who lived with her in the same room in the 50s of AI

Shubhendu Trivedi@shubhendu.bsky.social · 2w ago

Godfather of AI, Godmother of AI, Luca Brasi of AI, Commission of AI, Crime Familes of AI

Why do people submit a paper to be presented at multiple workshops, even after the paper has been presented before?

We are academics because we reject the bourgeois oppression of office clothing styles! (This is brought to you by the postdoc who gets called overdressed because he always wears a shirt and refuses to put on shorts)

Jake Quilty-Dunn@quiltydunn.bsky.social · 2w ago

in academia if you wear a tie people react like you're wearing a tuxedo and holding a sign that says "I'm a fancy boy"

Why is university teaching always structured badly? None of the faculty resources I have access to have any tips and lessons learned on actually running the classes! It's only about the bureaucracy!!!

Opus 5.5 is actually nice to work with ngl

This is mostly true!

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hello. PhD students. Things really come together around year 3-4 and there’s a lot of thrashing and angst before then.

I have finally been convinced to up my p(doom)

Claas Voelcker@cvoelcker.bsky.social · 3w ago

WHY IS THIS SO GOOOOOD!?

WHY IS THIS SO GOOOOOD!?

Grace@gracekind.net · 3w ago

New animation from Opus 5.5!

Survey question: What is the point of a scientific paper?! Please write down anything and everything that comes to mind

Is something actually wrong, or is it pent-up grief. The answer is always #2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-Dh...

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It’s the job market!!!!

Iva Vukušić@vukusiciva.bsky.social · 3w ago

This ridiculous number of applications is, in my view, the result of 2 nightmare developments happening concurrently 1.the precariousness of the job market for young PhD graduates which then fuels further: 2.the AI tools enabling overproduction of proposals. #Research #ERC #ResearchFunding #Academia

If you want my own opinion btw, I think we need to make it really really really hard to get a paper in. Require a 20 page submission, meticulous statistical analysis, theoretical results and empirical scaling. It should take a lab of very good people a year again to write a paper.

Claas Voelcker@cvoelcker.bsky.social · 3w ago

Reducing the current flood of papers requires us to take a loooong and hard look at the incentive structure beneath it all. Limits etc feel good, but will probably barely move the needle based on authorship stats. The problem is a simple RoI calculation. AI papers are tickets to two of the most ...

God, I just want to keep blogging about the dumb paper submission limit party over on X. None of these proposals come anywhere close to addressing the issue. Reputational costs: How on earth do you want to track reputation among 10,000s of authors? Furthermore, I know of several extremely prominent

Reducing the current flood of papers requires us to take a loooong and hard look at the incentive structure beneath it all. Limits etc feel good, but will probably barely move the needle based on authorship stats. The problem is a simple RoI calculation. AI papers are tickets to two of the most ...

My hot take: We were *already* in a state of being overwhelmed by reviewing grants, scholarships, and papers prior to generative AI. Now it's not even close to tenable. The time to start rethinking the entire peer review model in #academia was 10 years ago. Hopefully this will force it!

Nico Schuck@nicoschuck.bsky.social · 3w ago

2023: 8,039 proposals 2024: 10,360 proposals 2025: 17,066 proposals 2026: 21,627 proposals Something's gotta give

#KostasVisualizations now up to 22 topics! csprofkgd.github.io/kostas-visua...

Major conferences should just desk reject papers from authors with h-index > 50. They have obviously published enough.

⏰ The deadline for our workshop workshop.oopsie-data.com on imperfect data at CoRL is nearing! ⏰ While you 🤖 are making progress on submissions, we came up with cool awards 🏆. Our workshop on imperfect data will award not only papers but also data submissions. The categories you can submit to 🥁...

#claudetips I wrote a handoff skill that explicitly tells Claude to look over all the code it added and to reduce repetitions and redundancy. It burns a lot of tokens atm, but it genuinely helps with keeping the codebase form metastasizing.