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TMLR editor tests desk-rejected authors on their own papers, most fail

Mathstodon user hails Shah's interviews under #FuckAI

3 Sep 17 2:59 PM · 6d ago · 1 post · 1 source · development 3 of 5

A mathstodon.xyz post praises Shah for interviewing authors of already desk-rejected papers to check their comprehension, tagging the post #FuckAI.

“What a hero: Nihar B Shah interviewed authors of papers that would have been desk-rejected to see if they understood their own papers.”

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Nihar B. Shah Editor-in-chief, Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)

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