After Scanning 60k ICLR Submissions, Dev Compares Academia to Zimbabwe Currency
tokenbender · x · 2026-09-20
Developer tokenbender reflected on scanning 60k ICLR submissions, noting fewer than 60 papers this year would make their recommended reading list — quipping that academia today is "like Zimbabwe currency in '09": massive volume, rapidly devaluing.
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