Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity

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[1]: http://www.welcometowallyworld.com/frontpage/2007/9/30/google-12-things-i-bet-you-didnt-know.html

New comment on your post #563 “SODA 2008 accpeted list”
Author : Sariel Har-Peled
Comment:
Exactly. Rejection from a conference is very much a random decision, and should be accepted as such. Its hard to get your paper rejected, but its really not the end of the world – you can always resubmit, or submit to a journal. I had papers rejected from a conference, and accepted to the same conference a year later (after serious rewriting, but without any new results).

Exactly. Rejection from a conference is very much a random decision, and should be accepted as such. Its hard to get your paper rejected, but its really not the end of the world – you can always resubmit, or submit to a journal. I had papers rejected from a conference, and accepted to the same conference a year later (after serious rewriting, but without any new results).

New comment on your post #563 “SODA 2008 accpeted list”
Author : Mikkel
Comment:
Let me just say that the fact that many of the papers could right as
well be in as out just means that many papers are so close to the
threshold that factors such as randomness and the taste of the PC
determines the rank decission. This grey area is painful for the PC,
but it is quite natural in distributions of grades to experience that
those ranked between say 50 and 80 are pretty close.
I would hope that nobody takes a reject as meaning that their
paper is strictly worse than all accepted papers.

I am myself embarassed to admit that I have one of the accepted papers.
Hope it was not in (iii) papers I really really hated.

Mikkel

Let me just say that the fact that many of the papers could right as
well be in as out just means that many papers are so close to the
threshold that factors such as randomness and the taste of the PC
determines the rank decission. This grey area is painful for the PC,
but it is quite natural in distributions of grades to experience that
those ranked between say 50 and 80 are pretty close.
I would hope that nobody takes a reject as meaning that their
paper is strictly worse than all accepted papers.

I am myself embarassed to admit that I have one of the accepted papers.
Hope it was not in (iii) papers I really really hated.

Mikkel

New comment on your post #563 “SODA 2008 accpeted list”
Author : anon
Comment:
Actually, 10-20% is reassuring. I would expect at least 50% of the accepted papers to be a function of the PC and/or randomness.

Actually, 10-20% is reassuring. I would expect at least 50% of the accepted papers to be a function of the PC and/or randomness.

A country for sell.

So funny, so sad. Via [0xDE][2].

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/nyregion/17musicologist.html?ref=education

New comment on your post #563 “SODA 2008 accpeted list”
Author :
Comment:
Dude, just cool down, you’re totally scaring us.