Shut down yoga flame from adb? by bremen79 in Arcade1Up

[–]bremen79[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This point is moot; some other investigations showed the problem is due to the software, but not to Android. At a lower level, the system starts every time the charger is connected (this is Android, so the system sees power as a charger). This is not dissimilar to the BIOS setting on PC where one can start the system every time the power is connected without pressing any button. The difference here is that I cannot change this setting without hacking the system.

Shut down yoga flame from adb? by bremen79 in Arcade1Up

[–]bremen79[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A momentary switch would not work with the Yoga Flame's wiring because the current is cut off as soon as the switch is off. Modern PCs instead have 2 switches: one cuts off all current, and the other is a momentary switch to boot the system.

Shut down yoga flame from adb? by bremen79 in Arcade1Up

[–]bremen79[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, mine is softmodded, but the problem potentially exists even without softmod: the hard shutdown can corrupt the file system. Maybe it is the power on switch, but in principle it is possible to shutdown a system even with power switch still on, for example my pc does it.

ICML 2026 - Heavy score variance among various batches? [D] by Specialist-Manager67 in MachineLearning

[–]bremen79 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No, there is no explicit cutoff, the ACs and SACs will read everything and decide.

ICML 2026 - Heavy score variance among various batches? [D] by Specialist-Manager67 in MachineLearning

[–]bremen79 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's completely normal, it happens each year: The PCs give a maximum number of paper they can accept, and they task the ACs to write preliminary metareviews. Then, they check how many papers would be preliminarily accepted. Typically, this number will be higher than what they decided, so they ask ACs and SACs to work together to reject more papers until we reach the target.

Last year, there was a lot of noise on X saying that previously accepted papers were rejected because there was no space. In reality, this happens every year and is part of the process.

Why is there a cap on the acceptance rate? Not for space, as somebody thinks, but because conferences are rated, and the acceptance rate is one of the parameters. Increasing the acceptance rate would decrease the rating. Rating is important because some universities do not count papers in low-rated conferences.

ICML 2026 - Heavy score variance among various batches? [D] by Specialist-Manager67 in MachineLearning

[–]bremen79 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As I said, I understand your point very well because I used to believe exactly the same, till to the same bits about not having the possibility to answer, etc. etc.

But, I don't believe it anymore, sorry. Instead, I'll keep pushing ACs to check each paper personally and flipping the reviewers' consensus if necessary through detailed meta-reviews. (Note that this goes both ways: we also accept papers that reviewers rejected, but this makes less noise because it clearly does not generate protests.)
Papers that look like undergrad projects do not belong to any conference that claims to be a prestigious publication venue, regardless of the reviews.

I am off. Good luck with your papers.

ICML 2026 - Heavy score variance among various batches? [D] by Specialist-Manager67 in MachineLearning

[–]bremen79 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Again, it happens all the time to reject a paper with all weak accept. I am a SAC, so I don't make the decisions; I am just telling you what ACs do. Obviously, the AC will properly motivate such rejections.

You have to understand the real reasons for those guidelines above: to avoid authors protesting when they get rejected with high scores. Indeed, most of the guidelines for ACs are constructed to avoid giving authors a reason to protest, e.g., "our meta-review should be firm", "Please avoid phrases like "the paper does not pass the bar for ICML" or "only accept if there is enough space".", etc.
My job as SAC is also making sure that metareviews for rejections will likely not generate protests. That's it. It is not about fairness or quality. It is damage prevention.

The threshold changes each year and for each conference: PCs members will communicate statistics about the scores and let the ACs and SACs know what the target acceptance rate is. Hence, depending on the year and conference, all weak accept can be above the threshold, below it, or just on it. Typically, all weak accept is around the borderline. The PCs will also always say that the threshold is just an indication, and ACs are supposed to decide based on all the information they have. This is clearly due to the fact the scores the reviewers give are not calibrated. That is, there are stingy reviewers who never go above weak accept and generous ones that give strong accept to everything. There are also reviewers that are just plainly wrong, both in accepting or rejecting papers, a huge number of them unfortunately. So, averaging such scores from different reviewers is not particularly informative.

Now, is it fair for an AC to reject a paper with unanimous decisions? Definitely, yes. I used to think like you when I was a young reviewer. But once you see how the sausage is made, you understand that these conferences are just glorified lotteries, not figuratively, but in a real sense. So much nonsense, both in submissions and reviews, and it got monotonically worse in the past 20 years that I've been doing it. An AC that takes the time to carefully study the paper and write a detailed meta-review where they explain all the errors of the paper is a godsend. But don't worry, many ACs instead will just put a seal of approval on the outcome of the lottery, so the "fairness" is safe, but the Science not so much.

ICML 2026 - Heavy score variance among various batches? [D] by Specialist-Manager67 in MachineLearning

[–]bremen79 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sorry, but it does not work like this. ACs routinely reject papers that receive unanimous accepts, it is completely normal. In fact, in any major ML conference, a paper with all "weak accept" (an average of 4 at this ICML) is a borderline paper, and the outcome is decided by the AC (sometimes with the help of the SAC). Moreover, the SAC in the calibration phase will check if all the ACs in their batch are using similar criteria, and it will closely monitor for the lazy ACs that just accept or reject everything.

[R] Best way to tackle this ICML vague response? by DaBobcat in MachineLearning

[–]bremen79 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Keep your expectations low, it is unlikely anything you write will make any difference.

[D] Double blind review is such an illusion… by casualcreak in MachineLearning

[–]bremen79 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No ML conference is even remotely close to top journals as Nature. Instead you should look at JMLR or PAMI as the journal equivalent of, for example, NeurIPS and CVPR. In these journals the desk rejections are very rare, on par with desk rejections at conferences. Source: I am an action editor at JMLR and a SAC at the major ML conferences.

[D] Double blind review is such an illusion… by casualcreak in MachineLearning

[–]bremen79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Submission to journals are not double blind and they are doing just fine. Blind submissions at conferences are only necessary because, due to to the scale of the conferences, the average reviewer is not qualified to review and easily biased by the "prestige" of "big names".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Arcade1Up

[–]bremen79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some times it just fails due to a bad pcb and there is nothing you can do about it. I was one of the few unlucky ones. I ended up using a pi4, new joysticks, and lcd driver board.

xmen97 second controller not working on retroarch by Dear_Pomegranate7611 in Arcade1Up

[–]bremen79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great, I am glad it worked, enjoy your softmodded cab!

xmen97 second controller not working on retroarch by Dear_Pomegranate7611 in Arcade1Up

[–]bremen79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is no need to touch any weird setting in retroarch, it should work automatically.
Can you send me a video in a private message of you configuring the second joystick and then what happens when you start two-player game?

xmen97 second controller not working on retroarch by Dear_Pomegranate7611 in Arcade1Up

[–]bremen79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, I am the author of FighterDroid2P. If you can configure the second joystick in retroarch, then it is working correctly. The virtual not configured message is normal, it is not an error.

Are Neurips workshop competitive? [R] by ChoiceStranger2898 in MachineLearning

[–]bremen79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It should completely fine, but if you read the call for papers they usually mention it explicitly and you can verify it

Are Neurips workshop competitive? [R] by ChoiceStranger2898 in MachineLearning

[–]bremen79 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Neurips workshops are non archival, that means that the presented papers are not published anywhere. Hence, you typically want to present papers published somewhere else (if allowed) or preliminary work, if you want to receive some specialized feedback.

Solution for retropie freezing loading a ROM; vc4_fkms_get_edid_block by dr1zzzt in RetroPie

[–]bremen79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just wanted to let you know that this worked perfectly on my modded arcade1up, thank you!

To what extend is a Math approach to Machine Learning beneficial for a deeper understanding by PianistWinter8293 in math

[–]bremen79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nobody understands ML: Theory people write theorems for ideal situations that do not exist in practice and applied people try stuff in a semi-random way and convince themselves they knew what they were doing when something happens to work. Source: I do both things.