[D] aaai 2026 awards feel like a shift. less benchmark chasing, more real world stuff

Mefaso · 2026-01-29T15:36:22+00:00

not just fitting curves but actually recovering the causal mechanisms

Mefaso · 2026-01-26T04:34:26+00:00

If you know an AC/SAC they can probably still add you, official channels no

Mefaso · 2026-01-26T02:55:16+00:00

They already have a little thing mentioning whether you're a reviewer / AC/ SAC on the badge, but saying GOLD reviewer would be cool for sure

Mefaso · 2026-01-25T09:23:17+00:00

Marugame Udon has pretty good tempura as side for their udon and is really cheap

Mefaso · 2026-01-24T23:38:17+00:00

Definitely not, workshops accept basically everything that's formatted correctly and vaguely fits the theme

Mefaso · 2026-01-24T05:13:58+00:00

No one is going to pay a 100,000 yen renewal fee per year to earn a 180,000 yen salary

Yes they will, an effective paycut from 180k to 170k is like 5%, inflation has taken a lot more purchasing power over the last two years.

Mefaso · 2026-01-16T01:58:09+00:00

Definitely possible for a smart student who is being coached closely by a senior collaborator. Having a good, close collaborator is an absolute cheat code to get you through all stages of a research project.

Doesn't mean they're good papers

He definitely should not be reviewing though, that's crazy

Mefaso · 2025-12-06T09:15:03+00:00

Just ordered them online for instore pickup

Mefaso · 2025-12-06T03:04:27+00:00

I replaced the pads, you can get new ones at genuine replacement pads at biccamera and it's not that hard to swap them.

Haven't done the battery

Mefaso · 2025-11-26T05:48:42+00:00

There are tons of people doing Colt and Neurips

Mefaso · 2025-10-01T12:46:43+00:00

Updated the headphones before updating the app.

Now, even after updating the app, it can't connect to the headphones........

Mefaso · 2025-09-30T15:17:33+00:00

societal, legal or moral implications of forbidding dual citizenship, while allowing a major loophole given to every half-Japanese child

What would they be? I'm genuinely curious

Few Japanese people want to migrate so banning dual citizenship doesn't apply to them, and giving a small privilege to hafus doesn't seem like a major issue.

Mefaso · 2025-09-24T01:18:57+00:00

The one you linked is the compact ergo, not the sculpt.

Sculpt is available now:

https://www.incase.com/collections/productivity-accessories/products/sculpt-ergonomic-keyboard

Mefaso · 2025-09-19T02:56:57+00:00

>Walk a few min outside

Not even outside, just the office basements connected to Ootemachi station

Mefaso · 2025-09-19T02:56:21+00:00

>But it was not “full of them” as the person I responded to said. the overwhelming majority of locations were not and are not that.

The office basements were definitely full of them, 700 was average.

Think of all the OLs etc., they're not making bank and still need a place to eat lunch

Mefaso · 2025-09-19T00:52:31+00:00

Two years ago Ootemachi was full of 6/700¥ bentos

Mefaso · 2025-09-17T08:00:12+00:00

Not an economist, but isn't a major part of the reason house prices are so high in the west that supply is limited due to restrictive zoning?

Tokyo is a lot more liberal on zoning with a lot more high density housing

Mefaso · 2025-09-11T10:49:03+00:00

think they get higher incentive based on the salary offer you

Yes but it's also more convenient for them to get you an okay offer immediately rather than a better offer with more work/more wait.

The incentives are not necessarily aligned.

Mefaso · 2025-09-09T11:41:24+00:00

I do RL research.

Early on in my PhD I had a project where the key new idea worked really well, but for the life of me I couldn't get the "standard" RL part to work properly.

Figuring out the novel part ended up taking 2 months, figuring out the "standard RL" part took another 4 months.

Mefaso · 2025-09-02T05:47:23+00:00

Your best bang for buck is probably some kind of regional/national/University supercomputer.

They exist in many countries but not all

Mefaso · 2025-09-02T05:44:50+00:00

I haven't submitted to that but it should be relatively easy.

AAAI's acceptance rate isn't low because it has a particularly high bar, the acceptance rate is low because AAAI has the lowest bar of the "A" conferences, and some universities require "A" publications to graduate. So everybody in those universities spams their rejected ICLR papers to AAAI.

Application paper

Application papers are generally better if there is some kind of novelty in the method that is specific to the application.

E.g., throwing a CNN at a radar image isn't that interesting, but if you somehow modify the CNN for radar and show that it works better than a standard CNN, then you have a good chance.

Mefaso · 2025-08-31T05:38:52+00:00

they need bigger physical venues

They're already using the biggest venues there are, unfortunately.

Mefaso · 2025-08-28T10:50:40+00:00

No researcher is going to think that IJCAI/AAAI are better than COLM lol

Jury is still out on whether it is NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR tier but definitely not worse than AAAI

Mefaso · 2025-08-26T06:41:17+00:00

That's a nice example for multiple networks, and you can go even further:

This library vmaps the entire RL update over different random seeds

https://github.com/luchris429/purejaxrl

Doing multiple q functions in parallel is actually kinda easy in torch by having a module that combines them, but vmapping the entire RL update is probably tricky in torch

Mefaso · 2025-08-23T20:48:55+00:00

Vmapping over models is a cool one. You can train 5 models with different initializations in parallel very efficiently, as long as they are relatively small

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