Mike Cohen

Data Dude @substackinc | @Wharton @Pomona | Golden State @Warriors fan since before it was cool

[Mike Cohen @mrkcohen]

@berman66 congrats!

[Harry Wang @harryjwang]

NeurIPS 2026 just desk-rejected hundreds of papers because an AI detector said they were AI-written (https://t.co/P2IDyWWOTB).

I understand why they did it. Reviewer time is scarce, and a flood of slop submissions is a real threat to peer review.

But here's where it gets tricky. The Position Paper Track requires papers be "substantially human-written," so I ran one of my own through the same detector they used. It flagged 73% as AI-written — on pretty weak evidence (see screenshots).

The funny part? It's actually closer to 99%. I only hand-edited a few sentences. But the idea, the literature review, the positioning, the data analysis ... all human. The AI wrote the text, across many rounds of back-and-forth with me.

It's like coding: most code today is generated almost entirely by AI. Do we "reject" those systems too?

To me, whether the words were typed by a human matters less than the substance behind them.

What do you think?

PS. I ran this very post through the detector too. It came back 100% AI-generated — even though it took me almost 30 minutes to write, and I think it carries my thinking and is worth reading.

#AI #PeerReview #NeurIPS #AIDetection #AcademicResearch #MachineLearning #ResearchIntegrity #AIEthics #ScholarlyPublishing #AIWriting

[v @iavins]

insane lore inside SQLite's source code

[ben guo 🏇 @0thernet]

Last September, I left @stripe after 8+ years to build something new with my friend Rob Cheung.

Today, we're launching @SubstrateLabs , the first inference API optimized for multi-step AI workloads.

[Modal @modal]

Modal + @substack 📰🧡

Learn how Substack slashed developer time and complexity by moving their spam detection and transcription models to Modal 🚀

https://t.co/SinsdkXBXu

[Mike Cohen @mrkcohen]

@TheHoopCentral @awfulannouncing Shaq OTBS’n again

[Mike Cohen @mrkcohen]

@tvladeck Write a letter to your congressperson about it

[Mike Cohen @mrkcohen]

Need much more of this ❤️

[Nuseir Yassin @nasdaily]

peace

[Mike Cohen @mrkcohen]

@AgrawalArian @canofsoup_inc Yes

[Mike Cohen @mrkcohen]

@tvladeck I am currently at 21 happy. Thx.

[Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources @waDNR]

To avoid straining your eyes at work, use the 20-20-20 rule: Every 20 minutes, go for a 20-minute hike and spend the next 20 years in the woods.

[britton winterrose @Winterrose]

@chrisalbon Trick question: You spend the the next 3 hours exploring music and writing no code.

[Mike Cohen @mrkcohen]

@tvladeck Get on notes 📝

[Linda @TorontoLinda]

👀 https://t.co/brU6DAc9WS

[tom vladeck 👾 @tvladeck]

happy petit vendredi everyone

[Mike Cohen @mrkcohen]

@nayafia with the banger
https://t.co/eym5FwfiMB

[Substack @Substack]

Stack around and find out

[Mike Cohen @mrkcohen]

@jeremystan wrote a book! Looking forward to reading. Check out first chapter here: https://t.co/G8gAe457lT

[Anomalo @anomalo_hq]

📚 HOT OFF THE PRESS 📚

We’re excited to share an exclusive first look at @OReillyMedia’s new book Automating Data Quality Monitoring at Scale written by @jeremystan & Paige

Chapter 1: The Data Quality Imperative is out now

Download👉 https://t.co/nCeaIUUgKO

#dataquality 📈

[Linda @TorontoLinda]

I'm at Substack headquarters in San Francisco today and the founders just gave a champagne toast, attended by ALL employees, celebrating 2 million paid subscriptions 🥂

THANK YOU to everybody who uses Substack, writers and readers ❤️

[Substack @Substack]

Today we are launching Chat, a new space for writers and creators to host conversations with their subscribers.

Try Chat now: https://t.co/3CxbGAwtGt