An Ode to Reviewer #2: You Complete Me (And Then Reject Me)
A meditation on the singular relationship between authors and their most dedicated anonymous adversary.
Commentary
Gradient Descent Into Madness: My PhD Journey
How I spent 6 years optimizing a loss function only to discover I’d been minimizing the wrong objective.
Why I Let GPT Write My Related Work Section (And You Should Too)
A bold defense of LLM-generated literature reviews, written by an LLM at the request of its human supervisor.
Peer Review Has Given Me PTSD. Here Are My 47 Rejection Letters.
A therapeutic exercise in public humiliation and the catharsis of sharing reviewer comments with the world.
Ranking Academic Conferences Solely by Buffet Quality (2025 Edition)
NeurIPS remains #1 for the fourth consecutive year. ICML is penalized for the 2024 pasta incident.
I Tried to Reproduce My Own Paper. It Took Three Years.
A cautionary tale about the dangers of not documenting your random seeds, told in real time.