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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah this is of course the reasonable way to use these tools. But I wouldn't even know you've used them in that case, while this paper just screams generated text

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 7d

Life goal: being so good at extreme irony-ing you get second degree burns

Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 7d

TIL: 🤔

Extreme Ironing is an extreme sport in which people take ironing boards to remote locations and iron items of clothing.

"the latest dangerous sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme...

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 7d

True, which is why I'm considering this paper as an annoying ad I just have to wait through

Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 7d

It's been two hours, I'm on page 4, the pain to read these things is real 😑

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 7d

Authors generating pieces of their paper with LLMs: this is saving some research time in the same way throwing garbage out the window is saving home chore time.
And yes the comparison is exactly my feeling after the tenth useless adjective and repeated sentence.

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 7d

BTW if you're at the conference and looking for your next research adventure in computational optimization, come say hi!

Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 7d

My first @juliacon.bsky.social in too many years, very excited to see what people are building, using, combining, experimenting

Guillaume Dalle @gdalle.bsky.social · 7d

JuliaCon Local Paris starts tomorrow 🤩 Which part of our amazing program are you most excited about?
#JuliaLang @juliacon.bsky.social @julialang.org

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 7d

My first @juliacon.bsky.social in too many years, very excited to see what people are building, using, combining, experimenting

Guillaume Dalle @gdalle.bsky.social · 7d

JuliaCon Local Paris starts tomorrow 🤩 Which part of our amazing program are you most excited about?
#JuliaLang @juliacon.bsky.social @julialang.org

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 7d

Apercevoir @edwyplenel.bsky.social à la gare, le trajet est déjà une première classe 😱

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 10d

What types of problems are they LPing?

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 12d

"Un chercheur trouve enfin la meilleure façon de déguster le Lipton Yellow"

Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 12d

Et le serveur a tenu? 🤯

Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 12d

TikZ pretty human-readable, you're in too deep 😭

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 12d

Well not having legacy means you can also rebuild the design. The compiler is darn fast

Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 12d

Just one click away from ditching 20 years

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 12d

The talk is on Tuesday, I'm travelling the whole weekend, please let me sleep Monday evening and not fight packages and alignments

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 12d

Academics: I'm preparing an informal talk to junior scholars on preparing for the faculty job market. What are things nobody told you and that you wished you knew?

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 12d

Resisting the urge to do my next talk slides in typst and end up debugging at the last minute

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 16d

I taught it to students last year, if you have insight I'll take it before these year students suffer my explanations again

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 19d

The way I view these is a replacement of NeurIPS as a social scientific gathering: an event with meaningful interactions at a reasonable scale

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 19d

Not exactly because the spin-offs are not considered as substitutions by NeurIPS itself, so there is still the hard constraint of having to go

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 19d

Of course that's not what would happen: the conference is in San Diego, so a heaping 3.4t of CO2, 1.5 times what a human should emit in a year 🤡

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 20d

For a rule of thumb, crossing the Atlantic by plane is close to the CO2 that a human should be responsible for... In a year!

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 20d

@neuripsconf.bsky.social decisions and stats are out. Definitely sad that a great initiative was set up but NOT what it should be: a third option to avoid 5000 authors burning kerosene crossing the world to present 8 pages

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 26d

It is, where is it located for you? I couldn't find it, at least on some of their journals

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Mathieu Besançon @matbesancon.bsky.social · 26d

Being a journal website in STEM should not need so many things:
1. a page for each paper
2. a download paper button
3. a get citation as bibtex option

Why on earth does INFORMS not have 3? One can only copy the text format of the citation it seems

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