https://voets.ch/blog/science/ Recent content in Science on Hugo en Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://voets.ch/peer-review-is-failing-us-and-what-that-means-for-the-future-past-of-ai/ Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://voets.ch/peer-review-is-failing-us-and-what-that-means-for-the-future-past-of-ai/ <p>At the time of writing the initial draft of this post, I was in the weird limbo state of having to wait for the reviews of my thesis. It&rsquo;s been a number of months, which is the standard time allotted to these kinds of things. Still, it&rsquo;s an uncomfortable limbo state to be in. Furthermore, I was in the midst of reviewing for ICML 2025, which has been a less than stellar experience (low quality submissions, low quality fellow reviews, terrible review format). Distilling these feelings led me to conclude that as an academic, your career and your future, in many ways, is in the hands of strangers, much more so than in other jobs, where your career tends to be made by the decisions of your immediate superiors and those of the C-suite (layoffs et al.). Of course, when you deliver software, you still need to appeal to customers, please your supervisors and all that. Yet, your entire value to all hiring managers in your field is not being decided by a stranger&rsquo;s anonymous comments on the summary of a year&rsquo;s worth of work.</p>