Danny Xie
dnnxl.bsky.social
Danny Xie
@dnnxl.bsky.social
🎓 Computer Science
🙋‍♂️ IEEE Volunteer
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June 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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#KostasKeynoteLessons: How’d you do that?

✨Pro tip: Animations should guide attention or support the visual. Otherwise, you're just demoing your slideware and it gets tiresome fast.

Keynote link in thread 👇
April 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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This list is laughably bad and will mean grants on so many random topics risk being pulled, but remember:

They don’t actually care about being “right” in what they defund, they just want to defund stuff.

Plus, would you really be okay with this if they had a better selection process??

i wouldn’t.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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I wrote a recent survey about deep reinforcement learning. The paper is a compact guide to understand some of the key concepts in reinforcement learning.

Link: arxiv.org/pdf/2401.023...

#ReinforcementLearning #ICLR2025 #ACL2025 #NAACL2025 #NeurIPS2024 #ICML2025 #DeepRL #DeepReinforcementLearning
January 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Single-blind #peerreview leads to more positive outcomes if you are:
- male
- White
- in the US or North America
- well-published or known in your field
- affiliated with a prestigious institution

Can we please make double-blind the gold standard now?

🧪 #academicsky #SciPub
Impact of author characteristics on outcomes of single- versus double-blind peer review: a systematic review of comparative studies in scientific abstracts and publications - Scientometrics
The purpose of this systematic review was to assess the role of double-blind (DB) peer review on bias against authors when compared to single-blind (SB) peer review in scientific publications. Using…
link.springer.com
December 24, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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Hi!👋

I made that silly, viral YouTube cartoon that helped 250,000 of you redesign your research poster.

#betterposter
v1 t.co/wyXhiP5CKl
v2 t.co/q1g4SsSrlS

I use science & design to improve your experience with scientific articles, posters, publishing — and beyond!🧑‍🚀

Mission:
youtu.be/WBjhxjWDiHw
Let's Make Science User-Friendly | Mike Morrison
YouTube video by I/O Shaken & Stirred
youtu.be
November 18, 2024 at 8:09 AM
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I feel like not enough people know about Quarto for creating documents.

How it works: Write in markdown and use Quarto to convert it to html, pdf, epub, ...

I produce my books with Quarto (web + ebook + print version). But you can also use it for websites, reports, dashboards, ...

quarto.org
Quarto
An open source technical publishing system for creating beautiful articles, websites, blogs, books, slides, and more. Supports Python, R, Julia, and JavaScript.
quarto.org
November 24, 2024 at 10:24 AM