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OTC decongestants that actually work, some useful info for those of us with bad sinuses. - pseudoephedrine taken orally. - phenylephrine, but only as nasal spray, not if you take i…

unfortunately everyone is now doing this with LLMs, it actually feels like it might be on its way to being a negative signal, as strange as that sounds.

do you know why residencies value the number of research items? Why would having a large number of garbage papers be seen as a positive signal at all? Attendings and existing resid…

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residencies have decided to outsource part of their hiring decisions to journal peer-review processes. so now for some submissions, editors and reviewers are not actually doing sci…

the ideas have been worked out by people more sophisticated than me, good encyclopedia article on the topic: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computation-physicalsyste...

this paper makes a lot of modest, carefully hedged, and reasonable claims. in its tone however it's written as if it's a brutal takedown of... somebody's perspective. It's hard to …

for a truly profound and powerful buzzword, you can even honestly and accurately call what you've done "neurosymbolic AI"

I believe you, but if you are ever in a position of authority, please don't expect anyone else to function well on 4 hours of sleep.

it has been known to happen. For example, spearheaded by Knuth, the community effectively abandoned the Journal of Algorithms and replaced with with ACM Transactions on Algorithms.…

On the whole you should rarely read papers, you want to read a whole literature in an area. Academics embedded in the field can do this easily. Academics outside of an area know to…

it varies enormously by field. in CS you will have intense grind weeks around conference deadlines and a more manageable but challenging pace of life otherwise. in wet lab science …

if you think of it like a bond it’s pretty fantastic. coupon rate 3.5% and you got it at a giant discount to par even though it’s actually (according to this guy’s beliefs which pr…

sometimes you can see them do this and sometimes you can see they just work through the problem in the reasoning tokens without invoking python.

sympy is good enough for typical uses. the user interface is worse but that doesn't matter to Claude. I imagine if you have some really weird symbolic or numeric integrals, Mathema…

there is some inevitable "insider trading" in commodities markets. for example if you're a giant agricultural company, and you want to hedge the price of soybeans, you have some ex…

I have rented an apartment in Zürich (a hotel-room sized studio as you say, though with high quality construction and amenities). it was indeed pretty frustrating to go through the…

Switzerland is like this and is also a real democracy. Although the food is not as good.

Anthropic already was using "Clawd" branding as the name for the little pixelated orange Claude Code mascot. So they probably have a trademark even on that spelling.

this would be a good development. seems very far off.

this is probably a net negative as there are many very good scientists with not very strong English skills. the early years of LLMs (when they were good enough to correct grammar b…

the earlier list of ICLR papers had way more egregious examples. Those were taken from the list of submissions not accepted papers however.

the harsher the punishment, the more due process required. i don't think there are any AI detection tools that are sufficiently reliable that I would feel comfortable expelling a s…

Especially for your first NeurIPS paper as a PhD student, getting one published is extremely lucrative. Most big tech PhD intern job postings have NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR/etc. first auth…

I recommend actually clicking through and reading some of these papers. Most of those I spot checked do not give an impression of high quality. Not just AI writing assistance but m…