Yilin Harry Lu
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Yilin Harry Lu
@AstropowerDev
UMN csci, math, econ triple honors major | Sensemaking4AI & Human-AI Scientific Discovery | VIS+NLP+AI4Sci Researcher


If you aspire, sleep. If you doubt, sleep. If you create, sleep. If you worry, sleep. If you love, sleep. If you hurt, sleep. Sleep.


Both xAI and Meta seem to be falling behind, based on the Grok 4.2 benchmarks and this reporting. Frontier AI models are really a three way race at this point.


We want to update the community on our response to concerns about low-quality and LLM-generated papers and reviews, and steps we are taking & will be taking blog.iclr.cc/2025/11/19/icl… We will follow up with another blog later on desk rejections and reviewer-related decisions!

i left my phd before joining openai working in industry demands more rigor – you don’t just need to convince reviewer 2 with a nice graph and an ego-cite, it better actually work if it’s underwriting billions in research investment not saying it always pans out that way in practice. yolo culture is pervasive and “research-quality code” abounds. i certainly don’t have a clean conscience there but some of the best breakthroughs come from people without academic preconceptions, with the discipline to build things that actually work



The best Nobel prize ever! Congratulations to @DAcemogluMIT, @baselinescene, and my Harris colleague Jim Robinson!














