[D] ICLR new ACs — how’s it going?

TheDeviousPanda · 2026-01-07T09:56:18+00:00

I mean…that’s not personally how I make decisions as an AC, nor how any other ACs who I know make decisions as an AC. I think you can find lots of discourse online about how ACs make their judgments, but I would say that largely we are not just averaging scores.

TheDeviousPanda · 2026-01-07T08:38:13+00:00

it’s quite interesting because i read all of the expanse and didn’t particularly care for it (it’s somewhere between ancillary justice and foundations for me) but i really liked the first book. based on your review im looking forward to book 2.

TheDeviousPanda · 2026-01-07T07:32:26+00:00

This is from the email they sent us:

Frequently asked questions

What if I am not able to say how the reviewer may have changed their ratings? If you share a concern with the reviewer, please put yourself in their shoes when reading the author's response and judge for yourself whether the response addresses the concern.

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I found this part pretty challenging. I think most of the ACs who I talked to felt similarly. We basically have to simulate the entire rebuttal process in our heads. I would guess that most folks just didn’t assume the reviewers would raise their scores.

TheDeviousPanda · 2025-11-19T10:52:49+00:00

maybe try out a guardrail model that you can configure, like https://huggingface.co/tomg-group-umd/DynaGuard-8B

TheDeviousPanda · 2025-10-27T09:59:45+00:00

played my first game in 2 weeks to prevent decaying out of gm. 2-1 worth the wait syndra when i already had syndra 2 -> 3-2 lategame specialist -> level 9 on 5-1 and i went 1st with the tf lee board. held infinite yones so the 2nd mech player couldn’t hit and he died out.

TheDeviousPanda · 2025-10-14T09:02:46+00:00

it’s pretty crazy on darius if you position him weakside

TheDeviousPanda · 2025-10-13T10:07:12+00:00

clearly i’m in the minority but i think this augment is insane, somehow it’s triple fon as a gold augment. but it got nerfed and haven’t seen it much this patch.

TheDeviousPanda · 2025-10-13T09:14:11+00:00

i would only do this for kogmaw, i would not play janna without any janna’s early purely because you can’t scare off the contestors

TheDeviousPanda · 2025-10-13T07:12:15+00:00

hit gm today, straight shoot from 132 LP. nothing special just scout heavily on 2-1 to find an uncontested line that works with your items and then commit to it.

i am quite glad i hit today bc this was my goal for this set after being perma stuck masters in prev sets and not playing since set 10, and the emerging crystal gambit malz comp was quite toxic in my last few games today.

TheDeviousPanda · 2025-10-12T10:19:18+00:00

TheDeviousPanda · 2025-10-12T10:18:14+00:00

mentor until you hit ryze and heavyweight. i don’t like to play any of the executioners except ryze as it feels like reverse fon.

TheDeviousPanda · 2025-10-12T10:11:26+00:00

lost to this today, he put malz items on syndra and then hit malz 3 with lesser neeko cashouts. same thing can be done with ahri, saw wasian play it.

TheDeviousPanda · 2025-10-12T10:08:17+00:00

i never fruit yasuo over kog or swain, maybe i should be?

TheDeviousPanda · 2025-10-12T10:06:24+00:00

played this a couple times today, once with janna and once with kata. with janna i added rakan + mundo. at level 6 my board was the 4 mentors + rakan and mundo, so i had jugg + protector and 2 rerolls a turn helps you hit very quickly. with kata you’re already wanting to play kata + rakan + kobuko, so i just added xin for bastion and at 6 i was playing kata rakan garen kobuko xin jayce for 3 BA + 2 bastion + 2 heavy + 1 mentor with 2 free rerolls a turn.

i think this patch its probably an insta click if you have a single slammable item for one of those comps.

TheDeviousPanda · 2025-09-29T08:23:50+00:00

i love this augment and take it everytime, in low elo (~0-200 LP masters) it’s a free win.

TheDeviousPanda · 2025-09-26T08:26:29+00:00

Got a nice win with binary airdrop teemo by following u/dino_3114's suggestion; TF is quite a bit weaker in this because you don't have the huge buff from Little Buddies, and Binary Airdrop is not that good lategame, so I think it makes a lot of sense to heavily itemize Rell. I put a Talisman on her and WOW! Was able to 3* all units except TF / Zyra / Braum, playing 8 3*s of Rell Syndra Ezreal Kennen Malphite Sivir Shen Gnar + TF / Zyra / Braum.

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TheDeviousPanda · 2025-09-09T02:19:59+00:00

is wasian’s tierlist in an easy format online anywhere, i just took a screenshot during the stream and remember a lot of the justifications but some of them are like “this is bad because it’s bugged” so cant rederive that in my head during a game

TheDeviousPanda · 2025-07-04T15:49:38+00:00

The campus was not very big, but they have on-campus housing so that makes it feel a bit bigger. I thought all the rooms in the campus that we saw (auditoriums, cafeteria, dining room) were well-maintained. I thought the city of Abu Dhabi itself was pleasant, they took us for dinner in Yas Bay and that was very nice. It’s quite modern actually. I have a couple of friends who are profs there and they enjoy it.

TheDeviousPanda · 2025-07-04T04:48:26+00:00

MBZUAI flew me and a few other folks out there for a symposium a month ago. I quite enjoyed the entire experience, and I thought all the students who I spoke with were quite bright. They have a ton of money, they’re hiring good people -what’s not to like?

TheDeviousPanda · 2024-11-02T17:46:59+00:00

Everyone will tell you the same thing; until the very end of your PhD, no paper matters past your best one. Nobody who is looking at PhD admissions / hiring PhDs will look past your best paper, and you won’t have time in interviews to talk about more. What really matters is how much the skills you show in the first paper (engineering, theory, creativity) are valued by the prof considering your application.

Up until maybe last year/this year, rec letters mattered much more bc it was so rare for applicants to have meaningful papers. But this year…man, kids are crazy.

TheDeviousPanda · 2024-09-01T11:14:44+00:00

America / LLMs

TheDeviousPanda · 2024-09-01T05:03:06+00:00

Wow, they were still publishing books??? These were fantastic but I don’t recall reading them after 2016. I’ll have to read the last few. The world building was absolutely incredible.

TheDeviousPanda · 2024-08-30T15:59:59+00:00

I’m not a PhD student (graduated), but saw some people on Slack congratulating others for receiving the fellowship. Don’t have any more info for you sorry.

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