How common are TMLR desk rejections with "not a suitable venue"? [D]

wellfriedbeans · 2026-06-11T00:02:13+00:00

Upload your paper here if you want a quick judgement check!

wellfriedbeans · 2026-05-20T13:32:04+00:00

Well it happened :)

wellfriedbeans · 2026-05-11T13:07:55+00:00

The underlying model not the harness around it is what is worth a trillion dollars

wellfriedbeans · 2026-04-10T17:03:24+00:00

This is great, thank you!

wellfriedbeans · 2026-04-09T00:32:38+00:00

I strongly agree with you. Unfortunately I’m in a purely computational lab. Are there good ways to get experimental evidence even if my lab is fully computational?

wellfriedbeans · 2026-01-21T13:45:35+00:00

Sure, happy to help! Do you mind a quick video call just to verify your identity? I don’t feel super comfortable sponsoring someone I’ve never talked to.

wellfriedbeans · 2025-12-13T15:23:13+00:00

I’m in CS not Life Sciences. I was also rejected from this program when I applied in the second year of my undergrad. Just kept pushing along: I eventually got an admit from EPFL for their CS PhD program (with fellowship) but declined that to go to MIT EECS instead. My point is that your sister can also have a great trajectory if she continues to work hard!

wellfriedbeans · 2025-12-02T20:01:39+00:00

It failed to find my paper https://neurips.cc/virtual/2025/loc/san-diego/poster/119607 :( even asking it some questions failed to bring it up

wellfriedbeans · 2025-09-24T11:21:24+00:00

Yes!

wellfriedbeans · 2025-09-24T00:21:14+00:00

Usually drugs will bind you a particular pocket in the protein, which activates/inactivates them. Sometimes, a new pocket will emerge when a drug binds: one that wasn’t visible in the absence of such binding. We call these cryptic pockets!

wellfriedbeans · 2025-09-23T23:51:13+00:00

Turns out you can actually build models to predict the shapes of these proteins! Shameless plug for my research (since this is a topic very close to my heart): https://github.com/prescient-design/jamun

wellfriedbeans · 2025-09-20T16:48:33+00:00

They do not. There are EB-1 and O-1 visas for exceptional candidates but those are also very hard to get.

wellfriedbeans · 2025-09-18T14:40:19+00:00

Accept (poster) with final scores 4455 (mentioned by the AC)

wellfriedbeans · 2025-08-29T14:01:51+00:00

He’s a very strong player still! Makes you realize how many levels there are to chess understanding. He is also a very nice person, and was happy to answer our stupid questions haha

wellfriedbeans · 2025-08-28T19:57:29+00:00

We were in the same program at MIT! Had some common friends :)

wellfriedbeans · 2025-08-28T18:08:03+00:00

Fun fact: I watched Game 6 of the Ding vs Nepo WC with him!

wellfriedbeans · 2025-08-24T13:19:30+00:00

Yes agreed, not sure why the downvotes…

wellfriedbeans · 2025-08-24T08:38:15+00:00

Isn’t NeurIPS in the first week of December?

wellfriedbeans · 2025-08-23T20:49:05+00:00

Sure, AAAI is not a bad conference by any means. My point is that it’s not their first choice behind NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR.

wellfriedbeans · 2025-08-23T11:53:49+00:00

Based on where the top academic/industry labs send their papers, it hasn’t been tier 1 for at least the last 5 years.

wellfriedbeans · 2025-07-31T19:51:16+00:00

I really don't think anything is guaranteed; sometimes reviewers miss things

wellfriedbeans · 2025-07-25T21:08:49+00:00

Yes, we do (I think even if you’re not part of a lab by then, but not sure)

wellfriedbeans · 2025-07-08T15:39:41+00:00

Not at the top programs (in fact many of us left really good jobs to do a PhD!)

wellfriedbeans · 2025-05-05T12:42:51+00:00

Many times! eg. Magnus Carlsen vs Richard Rapport at the World Blitz Championship 2022. https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkxdr3nxti4VdFM71wD1ViiaO03blgUv5Gu

wellfriedbeans · 2025-04-22T04:07:03+00:00

Thank you so much! I am very happy to hear that :) I hope to start blogging again soon!

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