Research Conference ICML drops their acceptance rate | Area Chairs instructed to be more picky

#icml #machinelearning #conference In a controversial move, ICML Area Chairs were instructed to raise the bar on acceptance to drop the acceptance rate by 10% from the previous trajectory. This raises a lot of questions about the pains of an academic peer review system under the load of an exponentially increasing field of study. Who draws the short stick? Usually not the big corporations. References: https://ift.tt/3aNTBTV https://twitter.com/tomgoldsteincs/status/1388156022112624644 https://twitter.com/ryan_p_adams/status/1388164670410866692 https://ift.tt/2xsbZOx Links: TabNine Code Completion (Referral): http://bit.ly/tabnine-yannick YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/yannickilcher Twitter: https://twitter.com/ykilcher Discord: https://ift.tt/3dJpBrR BitChute: https://ift.tt/38iX6OV Minds: https://ift.tt/37igBpB Parler: https://ift.tt/38tQU7C LinkedIn: https://ift.tt/2Zo6XRA BiliBili: https://ift.tt/3mfyjkW If you want to support me, the best thing to do is to share out the content :) If you want to support me financially (completely optional and voluntary, but a lot of people have asked for this): SubscribeStar: https://ift.tt/2DuKOZ3 Patreon: https://ift.tt/390ewRH Bitcoin (BTC): bc1q49lsw3q325tr58ygf8sudx2dqfguclvngvy2cq Ethereum (ETH): 0x7ad3513E3B8f66799f507Aa7874b1B0eBC7F85e2 Litecoin (LTC): LQW2TRyKYetVC8WjFkhpPhtpbDM4Vw7r9m Monero (XMR): 4ACL8AGrEo5hAir8A9CeVrW8pEauWvnp1WnSDZxW7tziCDLhZAGsgzhRQABDnFy8yuM9fWJDviJPHKRjV4FWt19CJZN9D4n