A week-long calendar benchmark across 5 cultural calendars became this researcher's highest-rated paper (8/7/7)
cneuralnetwork · x · 2026-09-20
The author's highest-rated paper ever (review scores 8/7/7) was also their least effortful:
- Spark: at the WAT conference, a Japanese researcher showed LLMs badly fail Japanese calendar tasks; the author asked Raj (@prajdabre) why not cover all possible calendar tasks
- Execution: in two days they built a complete benchmark with 7-8 calendar tasks across five cultural calendar systems; LLM results were horrendous at the time
- Timing: an ICLR workshop on LLM failure tasks was happening, so they wrote and published the paper in a week
A story about how a good question plus fast execution beats grinding.
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