2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews
By ICML 2026 Program Chairs Alekh Agarwal, Miroslav Dudik, Sharon Li, Martin Jaggi, Scientific Integrity Chair Nihar B. Shah, and Communications Chairs Katherine Gorman and Gautam Kamath. AI has increasingly become a valuable part of researchers’ workflows. Unfortunately, AI has the potential to hurt the integrity of peer review if improperly used. Conferences must adapt, […]
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Afroman found not liable in defamation case brought by Ohio cops who raided home
The verdict was the icing on the cake. Afroman did not defame Ohio cops in a satirical music video that featured footage of them fruitlessly raiding the rapper’s house, a jury found on Wednesday. The 51-year-old “Because I Got High” rapper, whose real name is Joseph Foreman, held up his hands in triumph and hugged […]
Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs by Antithesis
Property-based testing for web UIs, autonomously exploring and validating correctness properties, finding harder bugs earlier. Runs in your local developer environment, in CI, and inside Antithesis. Note Bombadil is new and experimental. Stuff is going to change in the early days. Even so, we hope you’ll try it out! Documentation Learn all about Bombadil with […]
I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from Marketing Photos
I wanted the TiinyAI Pocket Lab to be real. A few months ago I got burned by NVIDIA’s DGX Spark, a $3,999 “personal AI supercomputer” with one fatal number buried under the marketing pile: 273 GB/s of memory bandwidth. I wrote about that here. The short version is simple: the specs sounded insane, the actual […]
Fujifilm X RAW STUDIO webapp clone
filmkit.eggrice.soy Browser-based preset manager and RAW converter for Fujifilm X-series cameras for desktop and mobile. Desktop Android This is author’s cat. Shoutout to Fuji X Weekly for awesome presets! Note that the app is in BETA. It’s currently tested on X100VI only. It likely works with other X-series cameras that support Fujifilm’s RAW conversion protocol […]
Invisalign Became the Biggest User of 3D Printers
Joe Hogan sees a lot of smiles. When people ask him where he works, he responds with “Align Technology,” which inevitably prompts the follow up: “What’s that?” It’s the $12 billion company behind Invisalign, the hellish and expensive pieces of clear plastic worn about 22 hours a day that brute-force teeth into better alignment. After […]
Electronics for Kids, 2nd Edition
Praise for the first edition of Electronics for Kids: “I learned and retained more in this single book than I can recall learning from my own science teacher. Most importantly, I loved reading it. I often took it to work with me in my bag.”—The Huffington Post “There’s no better way to learn than by doing. […]
Conway’s Game of Life, in real life
When life gives you switches… A while back, I posted the following on social media: If you’re unfamiliar, Conway’s Game of Life takes place on a two-dimensional grid of square cells, each cell either alive (1) or dead (0). In each iteration, all live cells that have fewer than two neighbors die of “starvation”, while […]
We Have Learned Nothing
Click here to subscribe to print for your office or home. Any method for building a startup, once widely known, causes founders to converge on the same answers. If everyone follows the same bestselling startup techniques, everyone ends up building the same company and, with no differentiation, most of those companies fail. The truth is, […]