Marco
@mcognetta.bsky.social
Language and keyboard stuff at Google. I like computers and Korean and computers-and-Korean and high school CS education. Georgia Tech → 연세대학교 → 東京工業大学. Regrettably no longer based in Tokyo :/ https://theoreticallygoodwithcomputers.com/
Two of my recent ARR papers would fall squarely under theoryslop. Absolutely impenetrable papers, extreme theoretical scaffolding, no real experiments, etc. Very hard to refute their claims or prove it was AI generated, so they are both likely to get accepted.
Mark Riedl@markriedl.bsky.social · 4d agoCOLM conference is struggling with theoryslop and slopterpretability papers gregdurrett.github.io/colm2026-blo...
I got 日本語上手'd by my (Japanese) Uber driver in SF today. It's so over.
Where are you all getting fabric academic posters printed in the US (local or online? a chain?)? They are like 4-5x more expensive here compared to Asia and I have no idea why (other than the obvious).
"We've just been doing light abuse so far. We are trying to kick it up now." -OpenAI
"We've just been doing light abuse so far. We are trying to kick it up now." -OpenAI
I'm delighted to announce the release of OpenSpiel 2.0! ♟️🎲♦️🎉 Structured types for states, observations, and actions, standard trajectories (based on JSON), 19 new games, AlphaZero ported to JAX, Windows PyPI support, language model fine-tuning examples and an MCP server (demo below 🤩👇)! 🧵 1/N
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We appreciate the love ❤️ But limited engagement and few followers on Bsky makes some (not us!) question whether it's worth it Be sure to follow (and share with your ML friends!) if you want to see more updates from ICML!
Marc Lanctot@sharky6000.bsky.social · 4w agoWow, awesome! Massive thank you to the comms & PR team @icmlconf.bsky.social 🤩 ✅️ Multiple update posts per day ✅️ Posts with photos!! 📷 ✅️ Great use of hash tags #icml2026 ✅️ Schedule and QR links at the local mall ✅️ Setting the gold standard for academic Bluesky 👍 🙏
I will literally follow any and all ML PhD students on this website, where you at
A bunch of people have told me this has become their favorite daily puzzle game. If you haven't tried it out yet, please consider it!
Thorne 🌸@ens0.me · last mo.⛶ Introducing Four Corners ⛶ A word puzzle game inspired by Connections and 4x3! 12 words, 4 categories, 4 words used twice each The repeated words form the corners of the finished game board. Game #1 out now! fourcorners.smol.quest
Why is there not a "I believe this paper is AI generated" button on paper review forms (that isn't shared with the author, but sent to the editors)? Ethical reviews are for ethical aspects of the paper, not ethical aspects of the writing process.
@ryelle.codes wrote this incredibly useful piece on text balancing for CJK languages. I don't think many folks know that the ideal text-wrap strategy is language specific and should be applied with intention and thought! ryelle.codes/2025/04/typo...
Typography troubles: Balancing lines in Japanese & Korean | ryelle codes
Text wrapping works differently across languages. Here’s a look at how text-wrap: balance affects Japanese and Korean text—and what to do about it.
ryelle.codes
For some reason, Google search will not give me any information on the world cup. No matter what I type, no scores/schedules/etc will appear in the smart reply. In incognito mode it works fine. It will occasionally give me the Women's Cricket World Cup scores though.
I’m at the airport flying to #ACL2026 in San Diego. If anyone else there wants to talk about tokenization, let meet up.
