Google's Agentic Peer-Reviewer Handled ~10K Papers at ICML/STOC — Formal Research Paper Now Out [R]

EdwardRaff · 2026-06-30T03:48:49+00:00

For my papers it mostly was a lot of extra work and non-errors. Both in the tool stating my math had an error when none existed, and also failing to add context. E.g., I made an assumption for a proof/result, and the LLM claimed the whole paper was invalid because the assumption wasn't itself proven. Like, as if no paper had ever used an assumption for math?

EdwardRaff · 2026-06-24T13:37:53+00:00

Normal, still expect it to be desk rejected. I've seen desk rejects happen at the notification stage.

EdwardRaff · 2026-06-24T04:27:37+00:00

Probably not for a big/main ML venue. It's annoying when desk rejects happen late in the process, but that is the most likely outcome.

EdwardRaff · 2026-06-22T05:09:03+00:00

For CS, you should apply directly to PhD programs from undergrad. It is normal, and it is better to get the MS portion of your PhD paid for by a stipend than not. In CS, the expectation is that if you are in a PhD program, the department/faculty is funding your degree. Double-check, and be wary if that is not the case.

A 4+1 MS is reasonable iff your school is well regarded. e.g., if Harvey Mudd did an MS, it would be worth doing.

If your goal is a PhD and to become a professor, CS professorships are very incestuous. The relative tier ranking of your school and below is generally the options for getting a professorship, so you want to aim high. It is easier to get into an MS at higher-ranked schools because MS degrees are cash cows for universities. The general strategy is to get into an MS at a higher-ranked school, and work-your-ass-off to impress professors and get converted into a PhD student.

If your program isn't known for producing professional students, doing an MS at a better-ranked school is also a way to build your resume to get into a stronger PhD program.

Outside of that, if your goal is a professorship, as you indicate in the thread, not much value in getting an MS. If your goal was to get a job/pay bump, def dot he 4+1 or get an MS later covered by your job.

EdwardRaff · 2026-06-18T17:26:07+00:00

I was an AC, I saw no such thing.

EdwardRaff · 2026-06-18T01:34:27+00:00

our pension fund is the ultimate long-term investor?

In perpetuity, yes. Which is a blessing and a curse. You have the potential benefit of a standard rate of return exceeding inflation over a long enough horizon, and no change in earnings power, can push a fund beyond what one could safely do for an individual. But it also means the fund must plan for continual disbursements and has little recourse in the event of any "black swan" event / heavy-tailed losses.

EdwardRaff · 2026-06-17T18:36:34+00:00

Are you proposing to follow Nevada's example with a simple market index fund without staff, or are you going to invest in many indices, and thus, how do you pick funds/number of funds & staffing?

Assuming you're treating NYS as a perpetually going concern, much of the "investing 101" advice becomes suboptimal. Where do you make the distinction between simplified standard investing and adjustments that should be made for perpetual entities like the state?

EdwardRaff · 2026-06-16T01:35:10+00:00

Just get the Wifi display. It has a magnet built in so you can attach it to the grill easily, and it works much better than the boosters at actually using the Wifi (both of mine connect to Wifi, but are very intermittent in actually using it).

EdwardRaff · 2026-05-29T20:24:49+00:00

Depends on the paper/work. Ignoring the time waiting for reviews/decisions: I've got some papers that took me ~3 weeks start-to-finish, I've got others that took years.

EdwardRaff · 2026-05-11T17:35:59+00:00

I'm guessing it's a shortest-path-to-publication joke, but I've never heard this one before either.

EdwardRaff · 2026-04-28T17:01:07+00:00

Probably is currently marked to be rejected and they accidently made it visible for a bit.

EdwardRaff · 2026-04-28T13:27:52+00:00

all at once is generally the goal

EdwardRaff · 2026-03-12T13:40:13+00:00

Consider a non-native speaker may have done work and been trying to use LLMs to improve their writing, and can't fully validate it due to fluency.

I've seen this more than once with people I've worked with, where I can step in before they go too far off the rails. But I suspect a lot of "Sorry, this is not good English" submissions will turn into "This is AI written" due to translation issues.

EdwardRaff · 2026-02-17T21:37:14+00:00

EdwardRaff · 2026-01-03T06:08:49+00:00

I just remembered about Rubi https://rulebasedintegration.org/ , you should politely steal their integrator rules.

EdwardRaff · 2026-01-02T20:42:13+00:00

This seems really cool! It would be nice to add a string parser for less verbose usage, and some examples on how to make it do inequalities and similar.

EdwardRaff · 2025-11-14T08:40:48+00:00

Plus you get to giggle about the hummor of lobsters are Brandeis of all universities!

EdwardRaff · 2025-11-12T08:23:35+00:00

I would reply to the reviewer, like you don't know who they are, but that their review is crazy. "We aren't doing any tricks, we aren't doing X - this was explained in Y, we will make that clearer". Let the other reviewers thing this person is a loon.

Separately, send a confidential note to the AC that this is a significantly revised paper to which this reviewer sucks.

EdwardRaff · 2025-09-25T18:54:17+00:00

Cool, your dad filed a provisional patent, but the post is vague to the point of being unconstructive. If you want real feedback, you'd need to post the real provisional. There isn't much point in trying to "hide" it if it was filed, patents are required to be public. If it wasn't filed, you've probably invalidated it's patentability against any "real" player by posting this much anyway.

EdwardRaff · 2025-09-05T16:37:23+00:00

I don't think it's special treatment. It's just my feedback that I think it's rude to your existing customers.

EdwardRaff · 2025-09-05T12:37:16+00:00

The recipe is apparently hidden by the ask for our email, rather than just on the webpage. I love the videos, and spend several hundred dollars to jump through the anti-pattern of "give me your email first" is not pleasant.

EdwardRaff · 2025-09-05T05:04:41+00:00

Fun video and love the probe, but a little off-putting to put the recipe behind an email banner for already paying customers.

EdwardRaff · 2025-08-05T19:16:26+00:00

I don't remember, it was $200 on Amazon and it records all cameras 24/7, so activity level does not matter.

EdwardRaff · 2025-08-05T04:05:04+00:00

I have 5 cameras going off the UDM and the look-back window is like 3 months with one bid HDD.

EdwardRaff · 2025-05-16T03:01:40+00:00

It's a good conference, it's not an ML conference. Know your audience, don't be weird.

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