#KostasThoughts: A little under the weather these past couple of days. I just found this on my desk.
Do not underestimate the power of small gestures. A simple follow-up after a meeting can mean a lot!
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#KostasThoughts: Losing a parent and getting older puts life into perspective. You get one life. Play the long game. Make it count!
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@csprofkgd.bsky.social: " #KostasThoughts: It’s 2026 and our research is still summarized with a static PDF. We abandoned transparencies for talks, so why not static papers?
It’s time for innovation in this space, where “papers” are presented with rich, multimedia content."
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My VO₂ max progress over the past ~6 months. Best I felt in years 💪
25 → 33.2
Mostly from consistent daily walking (often ~15–20k steps).
Nothing fancy. Just consistency.
Small gains compound over time.
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#KostasThoughts: PSA: Venue macros in your BibTeX are your best friend. Define the venue once. Fix it everywhere.
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#KostasThoughts: The ends don’t justify the means. Simply achieving state-of-the-art results is not grounds for acceptance. Claims and methods must also be coherent.
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#KostasThoughts: Stay organized and keep intermediate, raw project results. You never know when you, or your supervisor 😉, will need them later for a talk.
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#KostasThoughts: I don’t reuse other people’s slides, even my students’. It takes more time, but making my own slides helps me internalize the material and express it in my own visual way.
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#KostasThoughts Something I tell my students: Don’t make my mistakes. Learn from mine. You’ll make your own anyway 🤓
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#KostasThoughts: One idea per slide. Slides cost nothing. Pacing is everything, not the slide total.
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#KostasThoughts: The #ICLR2026 review process has been disappointing. This is not on the PCs. It reflects our current environment where the scale of reviewing across the various conferences may have outgrown the bandwidth of the community (eg shortcuts via LLM generated reviews) …
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#KostasThoughts: Please stop using AI tools to write reviews. I want your authentic thoughts, even if they contain spelling, grammar, & factual mistakes. An LLM should not influence your judgment. The purpose of multiple reviewers is to provide diverse views and error checking.
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#KostasThoughts: In academia, resilience gets you past the NOs. Strength keeps you from replying with that angry email 😡
Passed over again but not deterred.
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#KostasThoughts: As an AC, it’s frustrating when reviewers only see the rebuttal through the lens of their own review. Step back—consider all reviews and discussions. DON’T rush to finalize; see the FULL picture!
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#KostasThoughts: There is no shame getting the initial review wrong, e.g., by missing an important detail. It is wrong when you let your ego get in the way of arriving at the correct decision.
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#KostasThoughts: A common issue I see in the “related work” section of many papers is that they list similar prior work without clearly contextualizing their own contributions.
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#KostasThoughts: Rebuttals are part truth-finding, part reviewer psychology. Good luck 🤞
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#KostasThoughts: In your reviews, if you’re flagging missing citations as critical oversights, please include the venue. You might then realize those “essential” papers haven’t even been published yet, or are slated for future conferences that are out of scope 😡
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#KostasThoughts: Another major conference review drop is around the corner. In baseball, a .300 average is elite. In research, it’s a familiar reality: submitting to top conferences means rejections happen. Keep swinging!
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#KostasThoughts: We in CS do a poor job showcasing our field. Just check Google Images, it’s mostly screens full of code or people staring at them. To boost diversity, we need to highlight CS as problem-solving first and show students its vast, diverse applications.
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#KostasThoughts: Core math in many #ComputerScience programs is woefully inadequate for studying #ComputerVision & #MachineLearning.
Want to study these subjects? Take (single/multi-variable) calculus, linear algebra, statistics & probability.
Your future self will thank you 😉
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#KostasThoughts: This is my last semester teaching for a year, my sabbatical starts July 1st. When I return, will I still be designing assignments for students … or for their AI assistants? The future of education is changing fast 🤔
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#KostasThoughts: When communicating with conference organizers, start by assuming good intentions and always keep it respectful. Remember, these are real people, volunteering their time and making personal sacrifices to bring everything together.
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#KostasThoughts: As an AC, it’s frustrating when reviewers only see the rebuttal through the lens of their own review. Step back—consider all reviews and discussions. DON’T rush to finalize; see the FULL picture!
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#KostasThoughts: When preparing slides, map out your presentation offline first. Clarity starts off-screen.
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#KostasThoughts: Persistence is a key attribute in academia. Behind every yes, there are countless nos.
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#KostasThoughts: Guard your free time, no one else will. Saying no is a skill, one that I’m (very) slowly mastering.
#AcademicLife
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#KostasThoughts: I’m more convinced than ever that desk rejecting all papers from reviewers who ghost the process should be standard practice. It’s completely unprofessional!
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#KostasThoughts: “Guns don’t kill people, bullets do!” Please stop using them in your slides.
seths.blog/2010/04/powe...
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