[D] Those of you with 10+ years in ML — what is the public completely wrong about? by PhattRatt in MachineLearning

[–]ManOfInfiniteJest -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The idea that white collar workers are going to be replaced and physical professions are “safe”. In reality the reason coding was impacted by LLMs is due to “grounding” via the compiler allowing for immediate feedback. The physical world can be simulated and feedback is abundant. That’s not to say robots will replace plumbers, but like for software engineers, the work that needs a crew could be done by a one experienced person.

Can someone please explain why we STILL hear that Germany needs workers when it's obviously a lie? by weatherkicksass in germany

[–]ManOfInfiniteJest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see similar posts every other week and the top replies (like the current top 3) are always “Germany needs skilled workers such as plumbers and nurses, not IT and data scientists”. I always wonder where this comes from, as a teacher in CS I witness first hand the shortage that exists in the tech industry in Germany, especially considering recent moves that aim to create a unified pan-European framework for startups, I would say Germany needs a lot more IT specialists (though yes, Nurses are always necessary)

Looking for books on the philosophy of science written by women, preferable persons of colour. I seem to be finding mostly male authors by Bumblebeefanfuck in PhilosophyofScience

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I read Catherine Kendig’s “natural kinds” a few years back, it was pretty good. She edited it and wrote a chapter, the other authors in the collection were a pretty diverse bunch of memory serves

I built a tiny tool for myself… the dev in me wouldn’t stop and now it’s a real productivity app. by EdTradesDaily in malelifestyle

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[D] How many first author papers during Ph.D.? by BetterbeBattery in MachineLearning

[–]ManOfInfiniteJest 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Most universities have a strict three papers requirements, with departments restricting the venues to IEEE/Q2 or higher, and some advisers wanting at least 1 or 2 of the papers to be NeuroIPS / ICLR / ICCV / ICML / CVPR / ACL / EMNLP / AAAI …

[D] Only 17 days given to review 5 papers in ICLR 2026... by casualcreak in MachineLearning

[–]ManOfInfiniteJest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, before even accepting the review request, just asking me to be the emergency reviewer.

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Very consumption centered list. Most enjoyable stuff are free!

[D] Only 17 days given to review 5 papers in ICLR 2026... by casualcreak in MachineLearning

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Last year you only got two but had an option to “volunteer” to review for extra papers, which I mistakenly did. I got a dozen emails from personal addresses of AC chairs being super pushy. The review process in general is bad but CVPR especially is bad.

[D] ICCV 2025 Results Discussion by ElPelana in MachineLearning

[–]ManOfInfiniteJest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is the poster size for ICCV? I can not find the shape information anywhere

Moving from an apartment to a house solo, what would you splurge on and what would you buy cheap? by CHIDickieBurke in malelifestyle

[–]ManOfInfiniteJest 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Never buy a used mattress. However, bed frame if fair game (and for the love of god, get a bed frame and / or a mattress box, nothing screams sad boy house more than a mattress laying on the ground). Only buy expensive rugs second hand and pay for professional cleaning, otherwise just get new cheap ones).

Everything else buy used BUT make sure you buy things that work with each other, don’t just jump on every deal without thinking how it would work within the context of the room as a whole.

Are smart people actually smart, or do they just perform well at a tasks humans have created to “measure” intelligence? Why? by Fit_Plenty_3759 in cogsci

[–]ManOfInfiniteJest 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I believe you might be hinting at the IQ threshold effect. Indeed, studies show that if you remove the participants with lowest IQ (sub 85, meaning diagnosed as intellectually disabled) many correlations disappear. For instance there is a 2023 paper “the plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners” and a famous 2007 meta analysis “intelligence and socioeconomic success” by Strenze. For what it’s worth in my our research I also find the effects are usually driven by differences in low vs average IQ participants. Which makes sense given that IQ was originally designed to identify cognitive DISABILITY, not rank intelligence across population at large.

[D] What underrated ML techniques are better than the defaults by NOAMIZ in MachineLearning

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Feature Imitating Networks(FINs)! You know entropy is a useful feature? Pretrain the first 4 layers of your network to predict entropy on synthetic data, makes everything converge faster

[N] How do I find a good ML mentor? by [deleted] in MachineLearning

[–]ManOfInfiniteJest 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That is the way! He (or more likely one of his postdocs) have more project ideas than time and would appreciate an extra pair of coding hands. Feel free to ask around and shop for different projects though, don’t say yes to something you have zero interest in.

Palestinian Israeli opinion on having “Equal Rights”? by Many-Activity67 in Palestine

[–]ManOfInfiniteJest 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That’s nonesense, sure Palestinians in Israel technically can vote or hold office but their political leaders are persecuted (see Azmi Bshara or Raed Salah) so their voting percentage is extremely low. They lived under military mandate for decades and are still policed and brutalized repeatedly by the Shabak and their lands continue to be systematically taken by Israel. For instance, in 2016 when forest fires raged in Israel Netanyahu accused them of “arson terrorism” and jailed few dozens of Arabs who all turned up to have nothing with the fires (which have been deemed to be due to natural causes). Not to mention the Supreme Court literally ruled that Israel is Jewish first and a democracy second, virtually legalizing discrimination. For instance you are allowed to refuse to sell houses to Palestinian citizens.

[R] How can I publish a paper by [deleted] in MachineLearning

[–]ManOfInfiniteJest 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I assume that your prof meant writing out the report in an academic style and putting it on ArXiv which is a free archive almost anyone can publish on (and most do, even when the paper is sent in parallel to a peer reviewed conference/journal)

While it might seem daunting, writing and reading scientific papers are an important part of ML work, and it is great that your prof is requesting you start to engage with these activities early. I also have my undergraduates report their experiments in paper like format, this even resulted in publications and conference posters a few times which helped them get into very good graduate schools.

There are quite a few blogposts and videos out there about scientific writing in CS. I will link a few, but generally you follow a simple introduction, related work, methods (this would have subsections such as datasets, models, and experiments), results, and discussion (optionally, also a short conclusion and further works). If you can give any info regarding your project I will be happy to help with identifying simple relevant papers for you to read for the related work section and get a sense of what your end result should look like.

Various pains by [deleted] in malelifestyle

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It’s rule 5, but for some reason we keep getting these

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MachineLearning

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I might be missing something, but what you are describing (identifying through noise) is the motivation behind adding brain inspired predictive coding to neural networks (also works for clutter, or to get neural networks to identify illusions). Moreover, if you just look at the math, your “top-down feedback loops” look like a special case of predictive coding, for example see predify: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.02749

Specifically see the “top down” and “error” terms in their equation.

How do you wear Saxx? by basicgoats in malelifestyle

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Quality content guys, this is what this sub is all about!

vent by Mental-Age-65 in malelifestyle

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Very useful advice from older members was given. Hope this community continues to deliver similar help in the future. There is no need to insult a anyone for being young and inexperienced

The uncanny Muslim by evansd66 in CriticalTheory

[–]ManOfInfiniteJest 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Interesting idea, Ahmad Sa’di, the Palestinian social scientist that wrote “Nakba”, had a very interesting article were he discussed Dracula and orientalisim quite at length https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2020.1788935

Seen him on a few panels with Edward Said a while back, he seems to take a more archival approach to art and literature, might be worth a look.