Sasha Rush mocks 'vibed ML papers' that bolt on a 'Theoretical Analysis' section
srush_nlp · x · 2026-10-23
ML researcher Sasha Rush pokes fun at the 'vibed ML papers' pattern: do a cool hack in Sections 3-4, then add a Section 5 titled 'Theoretical Analysis' — 'as if we understood how any of this works.'
The quip captures a real tension in ML publishing between empirical tricks and post-hoc theoretical justification.
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