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by wincent 1844 days ago
Best part of the article is the footnote, where the author characterizes his own papers:

> This paper is bullshit, this paper (a NeurIPS oral) is bullshit, this paper is complete bullshit, this paper is mostly good science but also has a sprinkling of bullshit. Apologies to my co-authors.

https://jacobbuckman.com/2021-05-29-please-commit-more-blata...

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The author already gave it away in the abstract, though. Up to two digits is a good indicator of bullshit (by both author and review). [1]:

>> score of up to 93.30%

[1] https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D16-1254.pdf