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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think Jev is incredible. It's a lightning rod for people who jump on bandwagons and pump out slop, so you can just go on arXiv or on ICLR's openreview page and look for Jev papers and just blacklist every author you see on there.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's actually incredible how this is the single most facebook thing they could've possibly done and then they actually went and did it.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

One of the main comorbidities I've noticed is the sheer number of very simple questions/basic help posts about EMNLP. It's fine to ask questions. I've been answering a bunch. But it shows just how many people submitted with minimal prior ACL/ARR experience on either their or their advisors' parts.

A list of 18 reddit posts posts under the result of searching for "EMNLP" in the r/LanguageTechnology subreddit.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

They call me 007 0 shots on goal 0 shots on target 7 yellow cards

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

crazy how Egypt is still ahead despite playing 11 vs 13 genuinely filthy review from probably the coolest goal in this world cup so far

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

It's almost twice as old now as the AlexNet paper was when it initially came out, to put things into perspective.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

My position paper "The Perceptual Gap: Why We Need Accessible XAI for Assistive Technologies" has been conditionally accepted as a Poster in CHI '26! (arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2603.024...) tl;dr: Folks with sensory disabilities need XAI, but XAI for the models used in assistive tech aren't accessible.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Why on earth would you even do this in the first place? Pasting the details into ChatGPT, then asking it to generate the citation is a way bigger hassle than simply having Scholar + Zotero (or another bib manager) extensions set up correctly to grab metadata and generate citations.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

It was great listening to Dr's Ishtiaque, Ferdous, and Sultana talk about their experiences! There's a *lot* of HCI work to be done in the scope of Bangladesh, and IMO not enough folks working on them, so HCCS should be a great addition. Looking forward to the work soon to come out of the lab.

Poster titled "Launching HCCS: Inauguration and research dialogue with the HCI Pioneers of Bangladesh". On the bottom left, there are 3 portraits, named Dr Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Dr. Hasan Shahid Ferdous and Dr. Sharifa Sultana

A stage with 4 people sitting on chairs in the middle. A poster in the background shows the previous image's poster, as well as a QR code to the panel discussion question submission.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

lowkey I appreciate folks aren't posting linkedinisms like "In 2025 I achieved X, Y, Z" this time around. It's fine to celebrate your wins, but I imagine for most people, 2025 was... A Year. ...and I think that's all that needs to be said.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Seen on LinkedIn. How does someone raise $5 million and then write job ads like this? smh...

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

In the mid 2010s biology folks figured out how to do human gene editing. The community took one look, realized the consequences would be so dire for humanity, and put a hard stop to it. People like Jiankui He were excoriated for illegally editing embryos. Why wasn't this the case with GenAI?

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

How was no one talking about this?* IJCAI-ECAI 2026 @ijcai.org levying a $100 fee per submission unless every author on the paper is only on that one submitted paper. * rhetorical question. I assume the ICLR drama drowned it

Primary Paper Initiative: IJCAI-ECAI 2026 is launching the Primary Paper Initiative in response to the international AI research community’s call to address challenges and to revitalize the peer review process, while strengthening the reviewers and authors in the process. Under the IJCAI-ECAI 2026 Primary Paper Initiative, every submission is subject to a fee of USD 100. That paper submission fee is waived for primary papers, i.e., papers for which none of the authors appear as an author on any other submission to IJCAI-ECAI 2026. The initiative applies to the main track, Survey Track, and all special tracks, excluding the Journal Track, the Sister Conferences Track, Early Career Highlights, Competitions, Demos, and the Doctoral Consortium. All proceeds generated from the Primary Paper Initiative will be exclusively directed toward the support of the reviewing community of IJCAI-ECAI 2026. To recognize the reviewers’ contributions, the initiative introduces Peer Reviewer Recognition Policy with clearly defined standards (which will be published on the conference web site). The initiative aims to enhance review quality, strengthen accountability, and uphold the scientific excellence of the conference. Details and the FAQ will be published on the IJCAI-ECAI 2026 website.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Took me about 5 minutes to dig out the identity of the 40 questions reviewer — after someone posted it on the other site; I dunno how to search Xiaohongshu directly. Honestly, I don't think western academics are going to feel a fraction of the shitstorm that the Chinese ML community's probably in.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

many such cases Simpsons-tier prescience

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

There's a reviewer at ICLR who apparently always writes *exactly* 40 weaknesses and comments no matter what paper he's reviewing. Exhibit A: openreview.net/forum?id=8qk... Exhibit B: openreview.net/forum?id=GlX... Exhibit C: openreview.net/forum?id=kDh...

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Saw an insanely cool paper (Weihao Tan @ NTU (sg) plus Bytedance and PekingU collabs) on the other site: a VLM agent pretrained on human gameplay videos + action primitives can fully play video games. Very impressive work, esp. the inference process. www.lumine-ai.org arxiv.org/abs/2511.08892

Weitao Tan, @WeihaoTan64 on Twitter, posts: 🚀Introducing Lumine, a generalist AI agent trained within Genshin Impact that can perceive, reason, and act in real time, completing hours-long missions and following diverse instructions within complex 3D open-world environments.🎮

Website: http://lumine-ai.org

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Martin Tutek @mtutek.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

*Urgently* looking for emergency reviewers for the ARR October Interpretability track 🙏🙏 ReSkies much appreciated

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

It feels funny that publishing in NeurIPS has become such a mild signal of quality that people are now promoting the exact percentile ranking of their papers instead.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Is OpenReview gonna go down for 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 major conference from now on?

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

How much do instruction-tuning datasets (e.g. Alpaca, Dolly) resemble everyday LLM usage? It's a bit of a weirdly basic question, but I'm not up to date with instruction tuning. (I'm looking at model-agnostic single-turn Prompt-Response paired data, and ShareGPT is really messy and multi-turn)

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Folks on ML socials these past few weeks.

The two-men-on-bus meme. The man on the left is staring at a depressing, dark wall, labelled "Submitted to AAAI". The man on the right is happily staring at a bright landscape, labelled "Went to COLM".

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

My dad's been watching instructional car videos and every other video he opens is utter slop. I'm in the room and it's SO obvious to me that a video with generated images/panning stock photos and a steady, droning narration in numbered list format is slop. Even he can tell But for how much longer?

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Recommender systems have quite literally broken younger folks' ability to search. I'm not kidding you, the average user is utterly incapable of finding content without a recommender feeding them things. That's why forums died but reddit survived as a social platform, because forums don't use recsys.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Nobody seems to have mentioned the blog post yet that dropped yesterday that 'debunks' K2-Think. Turns out, it's guilty of the classic sins of train-on-test and sketchy-comparisons. www.sri.inf.ethz.ch/blog/k2think

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Debunking the Claims of K2-Think

K2-Think is a recently released LLM that claims performance on par with GPT-OSS 120B and DeepSeek v3.1, despite having fewer parameters. As we discuss below, the reported gains are overstated, relying...

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Still boggles the mind how one of the dullest and most uninspiring pieces of Harry Potter fanfiction led to where we are today.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

absolutely incredible credits: u/showermusicc on reddit

the virgin "AGI existential risk" vs the Chad Global Warming

Under virgin AGI existential risk:
- programmer LARP fantasy that makes coding the single most important skill for saving humanity
- fake and made up
- entirely based on thought experiments
- Zero evidence
- assumes that there's this vaguely defined concept known as "intelligence" that can be linearly increased as if it were a mathematical quantity
-projects an anthropomorphic drive toward control and power onto algorithms that just do statistics to spit out words; colonialist self-report
- sponsored by billionaires who want to make their technology seem more important than it is
- blackmails you from the future using faulty logic; doesn't actually make any sense
- "oh no, i guess we have to build the Doom Machine now. i guess the course of technological progress is inevitable, oh well"

Under "the chad global warming"
- incomprehensibly complex and interconnected polycrisis
- verified by the entire scientific community
- resists ideological simplification
- will actually kill you
- doesn't even need intelligence to threaten humanity's survival
- divine retribution for fossil capital's greed and wanton exploitation of the natural world
- reveals deep-rooted flaws with the dominant politico-economic paradigm; demands a fundamental shift of human value systems by its sheer physical existence
- billionaires don't want you to think about it because it is too scary

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Thinking that any more than 10% of machine learning and AI research counts as 'science' is the real cope here.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

rip openreview Apparently 60k+ reviews was too much to handle. Hope no one's getting desk rejected at AAAI over non-submission of revieiws.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

All these citation managers and notetaking apps and somehow I managed to fall back on a word document with my references as <short note on where/why I'm citing this> <url> 😮‍💨 Zotero's great, but at this stage of writing, adding things as I find them seems to interrupt my stream of consciousness

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Wait, so #NeurIPS is at three different locations simultaneously this year? Well, technically two plus a semi-official satellite location. I love the inclusivity but I'm concerned about how sustainable this is.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

this exists. This is called an API.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Honestly Bsky is so lefty that when I see the occasional fascism supporter I have to do a double-take to make sure they're not doing A Bit. And it's kind of refreshing because it's what the internet used to be like 10-ish years ago.

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Christian Vogler @krischi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Oliver Suchanek and @katta.bsky.social at #CHI2025. Refreshing to see a good deaf-hearing collaborator dynamic: both presenters signed, and interpreters did the voicing. So much more respectful than the typical scenario of the deaf presenter signing and the hearing presenter talking up a storm.

Two people presenting on opposite ends of a podium. On the left, the deaf presenter (Oliver) looks on while their hearing collaborator (Katta) is signing on the right.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I hate to say it but it needs to be said. The "center of AI discourse" no longer exists. r/MachineLearning had solid discourse killed by the API boycott. AI Twitter got swamped by grifters and then killed by algorithm changes and fascist takeovers. On Bsky it was obviously stifled in the cradle.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

As awful as this is, travelers from the global south are treated like this at all times 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 we go. I'd never even dare to show up at immigration without a full, precise itinerary, proof of purpose of visit, and even letters of leave of absence from my job/school.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I think it's noteworthy how spoiled we in ML/NLP/CV are for venues. Miss a deadline or get rejected? The next deadline for a relevant venue of equal prestige is just a month or two away! (and this is honestly contributing a lot to the over abundance of papers in the field)

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

oh. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 why people complain so much about the review process

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

for those out of the ICLR drama popping off (again) suddenly openreview.net/forum?id=et5... @kempelab.bsky.social refused to cite Schaeffer and Gerstgrasser's (no Bsky @) prior paper on Model Collapse at COLM on grounds of ethical and quality concerns. AC rejects. PCs override and accept.

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Strong Model Collapse

Within the scaling laws paradigm, which underpins the training of large neural networks like ChatGPT and Llama, we consider a supervised regression setting and establish a strong form of the model...

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Victor Bjelkholm 🏖️ @victor.earth · 01/04/2025

Noticed that my GPU seems to sing a bit (coil whine I guess?) when doing inference with a LLM, and apparently different models have different noises they make Can barely hear it in person, but if you put a microphone right next to the GPU you can hear the machines grinding their gears

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 30/03/2025

Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)

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NeurIPS participation in Europe

We seek to understand if there is interest in being able to attend NeurIPS in Europe, i.e. without travelling to San Diego, US. In the following, assume that it is possible to present accepted papers ...

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The silver lining (or perhaps more than a lining) is that progress on GPT-5 seems to have stalled so badly they had to push this marketing stunt just to stay relevant. It's funny, you could also almost do this right at home way back in 2017

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Archives and datasets are NOT the same thing and anyone aiming at LibGen instead of Meta is shooting all of humanity in the foot just because they can't be assed to understand the importance of 'piracy' in knowledge preservation, open-access, free speech and defeating censorship.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It was really fun working on this! Doing human participant studies isn't as scary as you'd think. If you're into personalizing LLM outputs or Human-AI collaboration, feel free to check out the paper!

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline.

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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

“Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters, We are raising urgent funds to support Mahmoud Khalil and his family, a dedicated advocate for Palestinian rights and a recent graduate of Columbia University” chuffed.org/project/just...

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Justice for Mahmoud Khalil—Urgent Support Needed

Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I remember talking about almost exactly this concept with a friend just a few months ago. We didn't have the bandwidth to investigate further, but it's a super useful application and I'm happy and validated to see this paper out.

Discussing a paper that uses LLMs to verify claims in research papers by following a chain of references automatically back.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Has anyone been doing or planning to do any qualitative tests on GPT-4.5? Early vibes I've been hearing say it's better on benchmarks (obviously) but apparently Karparthy did a vibes test and 4.5 failed spectacularly despite OpenAI claiming that this is the kind of task it should do better at.

A screenshot showing two prompts between GPT 4 and 4.5 asking GPT 4.5 to playfully roast GPT-4 for its inferior capabilities. People say the left option was better 32% of the time and the right option 25.2% of the time, and the remainder opted to skip.

In five questions asked to GPT4 and GPT4.5, people preferred 4 4/5 of the time.

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