The problem with big names praising "breakthroughs" by OpenAI is that it gives OpenAI a pass on mostly sloppy and sometimes incorrect proofs, treating them as "machine things" that we should accept as a "small price". Would love to see them read the proofs and then write their understandings.

"You can just say no".

(3/n) I have to interact with GPT Anstra just to understand what each paragraph means. So far, I get the impression that nothing deep happens in this section either. Perhaps great stuff will be in subsequent sections, so I am looking forward to that. It has been a lot of pain reading so far.

(2/n) The proofs are straightforward, and nothing deep happens yet. I also spent about 3 hours reading section 3 of the manuscript. It is only 4 pages long, but full of gibberish. The central concept in this section is called a chart. Nothing in this section is formal.

I Wrote about the responsibility we carry to each other.

This is bad. If you do not want to read a paper to review it properly, don't accept the review request.

We probably never know. I am not against rebuttal, just want to know what good is it, as authors put their efforts in writing them.

Nice! I am always curious about whether someone increases their scores because of the rebuttals or not. Without rebuttals, scores got changed anyway (and quite randomly) by the PC in the discussion phase (cont.)

Did the rebuttal help your paper increase the score? My experience with all reubuttals so far is that they are pretty useless. It's more psychological rather than practical: it seems nice that authors are given a chance to argue about their paper before the final decision making.

I don't know what happens to those. The facts are only about mine, and I don't have any with 3-4-4. I do know that a friend of mine had a 3-4-4 pre-rebuttal but was downgraded to 3-3-4 and ultimately rejected.

SODA 27 notifications are out. Interesting facts: 1. Submissions: 1181 papers. Last year, 809 submissions, a 46% up. 2. Acceptance: 287 (~24.3%). Last year, 243 acceptances (~30%) Personal facts: Only 4-4-4 papers got into SODA; all 3-3-4 papers rejected. Rebuttal does not change anything.

Yes. And I would love to post your thoughts on my blog as well (of course, with your permission).