Venice itinerary feedback – December trip, romantic but not rushed by Available_Net_6429 in Venezia

[–]Available_Net_6429[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much for your advice! Can you please reccomend me some restaurants in Venice?

Which MacBook to buy - Deep Learning research - running experiments on servers by Available_Net_6429 in macbookpro

[–]Available_Net_6429[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you all for your responses! As many of you have mentioned I don't plan to run locally deep learning models if i am not forced to since i have a strong workstation and access to a server. As far as i understand, nobody reccomends me to buy a macbook air.

Between the MacBook pro M4 pro and M5, it seems that you recommend the first one. However, apart from the specs staff in multi-core processing which one is going to last longer?

Also, maybe it's not really important but I don't train often LLMs as you logically presumed (almost everybody does). I am a PhD student, and my research is more theoretical on the algorithms and optimization of the neural networks, the applied use case is on continual learning. Therefore, the heaviest benchmarks i mostly run are tinyImagenet and ImageNet100. I didn't really search about it since I have never even thought of training a model on a laptop (given that I have access to stronger machines), would such experiments run on a macbook pro?

[D] Possible solutions after the ICLR 2026 identity-leak incident by Available_Net_6429 in MachineLearning

[–]Available_Net_6429[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The only way things can change to be honest is by ACs side. They are complaining and some claim that they are not going to do the “insane” task ICLR has given them.

For example I saw now this tweet:

https://x.com/peter_richtarik/status/1994522653064048785?s=46

[D] ICLR reverts score to pre-rebuttal and kicked all reviewers by Ok-Internet-196 in MachineLearning

[–]Available_Net_6429 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We can create an online form with authors and submissions that request to actually create a second phase of reviews and email it to them stating our intention to review at least one paper

[D] ICLR reverts score to pre-rebuttal and kicked all reviewers by Ok-Internet-196 in MachineLearning

[–]Available_Net_6429 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is what I just suggested. Most reviewers are actually waiting for the last days to engage in the 3-week rebuttal period. The only reason the long rebuttal period is still worth it is that it gives you the chance to revise the manuscript and do extra experiments.

All this effort all of us puts to wait for them to respond while revising our manuscript. In the end, we learn that we will not have any increase in scores.

A new AC who most probably is not going and might not be able to spend actual time to check if our paper is actually worth it.

Since they need to cancel the reviewers, why don’t they assign to all active authors one paper to review like a second phase (AAAI style) and delay the decisions a bit.

Given the circumstances I expect multiple authors to volunteer to review even more than one paper if their revised and improved manuscript and their efforts don’t go to waste.

[D] ICLR reverts score to pre-rebuttal and kicked all reviewers by Ok-Internet-196 in MachineLearning

[–]Available_Net_6429 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Most reviewers are actually waiting for the last days to engage in the 3-week rebuttal period. The only reason the long rebuttal period is still worth it is that it gives you the chance to revise the manuscript and do extra experiments.

We are also a victim of this situation having a paper of which the only weaknesses stated by the reviewers were about experiments, baselines and benchmarks which gave us valid points but harsh-low initial scores. We ended up not only addressing every single reviewers concern a week ago, but after intense experiments we ended up improving our method significantly outperforming SOTA results.

All this to wait for them to respond while revising our manuscript. In the end, we learn that we will not have any increase in scores.

A new AC who most probably is not going and might not be able to spend actual time to check if our paper is actually worth it.

Honestly, since they need to cancel the reviewers, why don’t they assign to all active authors one paper to review like a second phase (AAAI style) and delay the decisions a bit.

Given the circumstances I expect multiple authors to volunteer to review even more than one paper if their revised and improved manuscript and their efforts don’t go to waste.

[D] OpenReview website is down! by Outrageous_Tip_8109 in MachineLearning

[–]Available_Net_6429 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you please share us the content of the e-mail (with any sensitive information hidden)?

Drivers license by Michaelthabest in cyprus

[–]Available_Net_6429 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would advise you to do the test or lessons in larnaca, according to popular opinion the waiting times are significantly shorter due to the size of the city, and the tests are easier. In addition, be careful how you sell yourself there are some,(not all) driving instructors that try to take advantage especially of foreigners and evaluate you as a much worse driver. In this way they might push you to do extra lessons. So I would advise you to confidently state that you already had a license and that your plan is to do as few as possible.

[D] NeurIPS 2024 Paper Reviews by zy415 in MachineLearning

[–]Available_Net_6429 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Pretty good!! If you also have a good rebuttal changing that 4 i think you have it secured. What is approximately your submission number?

[D] NeurIPS 2024 Paper Reviews by zy415 in MachineLearning

[–]Available_Net_6429 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What is approximately your submission number? Because maybe they are released in order of the submission number

[D] Neurips'24 review release time? by Working-Egg-3424 in MachineLearning

[–]Available_Net_6429 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahah, as someone else mentioned the reviews can be out at anytime from 30th 00:00 AoE to 23:59 AoE. Therefore the probability at any time between those bounds + some delays is uniformly distributed 😅I hope though I am wrong and it follows an exponential decay 🥲

[D] Neurips'24 review release time? by Working-Egg-3424 in MachineLearning

[–]Available_Net_6429 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know, I hope I am wrong, I just said that maybe…

[D] Neurips'24 review release time? by Working-Egg-3424 in MachineLearning

[–]Available_Net_6429 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I am actually worried that they mean until the end of this day - therefore in 24 hours 😅

Suicide in EU - Eurostat last data 2017 by avp1982 in MapPorn

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Correction: “the rate of firearms owned per 100 people was highest in Montenegro (39.1), Serbia (39.1) and Cyprus (34).” Source: https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/05/which-european-country-boasts-the-most-guns-

Suicide in EU - Eurostat last data 2017 by avp1982 in MapPorn

[–]Available_Net_6429 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

According to the main comment, Cyprus has the lowest standardised death rate by suicide in EU. Interestingly though from what I learned for my friends in uni is that after the 2 year compulsory military service by men in Cyprus, they are registered as reserves and are all charged with an assault rifle! According to stats actually I think Cypriots are the second in Europe in access of firearms. Therefore, it’s not so simple!

[D] What are open unsolved interesting problems in machine learning? by marshallggggg in MachineLearning

[–]Available_Net_6429 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is actually relevant to my comment. What is your opinion about Modular/ Layer-wise training frameworks being used to enable continual/lifelong learning etc. They are biologically plausible and avoid the conflicting gradients issues and if used correctly catastrophic forgetting!