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MrAcurite t1_j8c9u48 wrote

Reply to comment by daking999 in [D] Quality of posts in this sub going down by MurlocXYZ

I joined the Sigmoid Mastodon. It's a wasteland of people posting AI "art," pseudo-intellectual gibberish about AI, and nonsense that belongs on the worst parts of LinkedIn.

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gopher9 t1_j8d1odf wrote

Did you take a look as Mathstodon? There are some actuall mathematicians and computer scientists there, so maybe it's a better place to look at.

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MrAcurite t1_j8d301x wrote

I'll take a look, thanks for the recommendation. Right now what I really want is a place to chat with ML researchers, primarily to try and get some eyes on my pre-prints before I submit to conferences and such. I'm still kinda new to publishing, my coworkers aren't really familiar with the current state of the ML publishing circuit, and I could always use more advice.

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daking999 t1_j8dn7ar wrote

It's also frustrating finding researchers that I want to follow. I work on ML/compbio so the ppl I want to follow are spread across multiple mastodon servers which makes them hard to search for.

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MrAcurite t1_j8dnscj wrote

I get that. I've come to actively hate a lot of the big, visual, attention-grabbing work that comes out of labs like OpenAI, FAIR, and to some extent Stanford and Berkeley. I work more in the trenches, on stuff like efficiency, but Two Minute Papers is never going to feature a paper just because it has an interesting graph or two. Such is life.

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