Yotam Gafni

I work on auctions, fair allocation, and social choice. My son and daughter non-cooperatively curate my remaining time and interests.

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

״יש לי מאמר קטן שרק אתמול בא לעולם...״
שרשור
https://t.co/4CJCgtzrpp

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

reviewers' feedback. To emphasize, you DO read the paper you're request to include, and judge if it's relevant, and I made the call before to not include such papers.

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

Getting citations right:

(1) There’s no central repository of bibliographic data. Google Scholar is terrible, I used it in my first ever paper, and got an angry email from a Professor. Apparently the GS record scanned the front page of his paper and added the editors in,

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

I deleted (7) which talked about reviewers / other scholars pointing out relevant citations because indeed it doesn't relate to my main point of possible errors when formatting citations, it's just another aspect where you don't fully control your framing, and should accommodate

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

@JoshHochschild @DavidHein9 @resistancemoney That's your interpretation of what I'm saying, which misses the point. The point is, you read the paper, now you want to cite it 100% correct (no arXiv ban). I'm listing hurdles to do it, which I learnt over time (and know to overcome). It's about policy, not about sympathy to me

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

@zx_sci_john @ianfmusgrave I am not talking about citing a paper you don't have, but about hurdles to getting the bibliographical data exactly right.

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

@DarrinADurant @eduleadership I don't get the conflation between 'not having read the paper' and 'finding it somewhat difficult to nail all the correct fields of bibliographical data'

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

@JFPuget My workflow, which I highlighted as incorrect, was: read the paper at some point during writing, later grabbed the Google Scholar record and assumed it to be ground-truth. The larger point is that human workflows are also flawed and should be corrected rather than banned.

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

@ianfmusgrave @eduleadership There are a lot of relevant issues, but one example, is that a paper is in arXiv, it's accepted to a conference (appears in the Accepted Papers list) but the conference did not publish proceedings yet. You are meant to cite it as "To Appear in ..."

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

@Blogsbloke Where did you see the part about not reading it?

If a reviewer pointed out a paper they believe to be relevant, you somewhat agree but think it's not super essential context, do you include it or not?

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

@bbeeeeeepp If you're scrolling down my feed to look for context / stuff to hate, this is the more relevant post https://t.co/9P56kKrFjc

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

It reads as a 1-year ban but it's actually a lifelong ban, because there's no point to post on arXiv if you're already accepted in a peer-reviewed conference.

Seems very excessive to me, and very prone to false-positives. For example, I write comments to myself for future edits,

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

@bbeeeeeepp Luckily there are enough Jewish holidays to go around, so I'm sure during his mayorship he would use a Hebrew greeting at least once (1)

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

It's kind of truly fascinating the way Mamdani uses language for culture war purposes

For Jewish holidays greetings, he always uses Yiddish, never Hebrew. Of course! Yiddish is the language of Jewish assimilation, while Hebrew shows the connection to Israel (bad)

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Nowruz Mubarak to all the Iranian Americans who call New York City home!

It was an honor to celebrate Charshanbeh Soori with so many of you in anticipation of spring, renewal, and - now especially - the enduring hope of a new day for the Iranian people.

Nowruz is typically a time of good feeling, but this year is different. I continue to stand in opposition to this war, and I wish as many moments of joy as possible for all Iranians observing this special holiday.

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

@debbie_nacl Read the paper, proceeded to take the Google Scholar record of it, which was obviously the wrong workflow...

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

״זה נראה שאתה סתם ממציא כל מיני חוקים, אבל אם ככה כיף לך לשחק, אז נעשה לפי החוקים שאתה רוצה״

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

במהלך משחק השחמט* מכריזה בת ה(עוד מעט) ארבע: ועכשיו - נישוקים!

כמו קפבלנקה בנצחונו על טרטקובר, היא מביאה את שני הסוסים מקצוות הלוח להיות אחד לצד השני, ועושים הפוגה במשחק כדי שיוכלו לתת זה לזה נשיקות על הפה.

*היא קוראת לזה משחק ההמהמהמ כי החלק הכיף זה שהכלים אוכלים אחד את השני

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

אל מול מה שאני סידרתי, או מלמצוא את הקואורדינטה של משבצת כשילוב של אות ומספר. כשאני מסביר לה חוק, למשל שהמשחק נגמר כשאני אוכל את המלך (ניסיתי להסביר שכשיש איום על המלך היא חייבת לזוז או להגן, אבל היא הלכה off-path, אז מה לעשות...), היא אומרת ״אוקיי אבא...״ בסלחנות ובחיוך, וייב של

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

@AbhiMan1601 Maybe I used terrible too liberally, but I learned not to trust it. It has another issue where records are very minimal and miss important details (overleaf then bombards you with warnings). I would use it as a last resort + prepare to manually confirm/complete details.

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

@TeX64AI which in itself is a good idea, but the standard only catches say 20% of the market, now the market is even more fragmented. I think the formidable task of standardizing stems from there being truly a wide variety of literatures and traditions (regulations, formats) to overcome.

[Yotam Gafni @Suflaky]

@TeX64AI I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad option but (1) DBLP botches journal names, it turns Journal of AI Research (JAIR) into "J. Artif. Intell. Res." (2) I was explicitly told at some point not to do that, (3) Part of the problem is people try to introduce a standard,