research-culture
Everything on Ground Truth tagged “research-culture” — 2 items.
NeurIPS rebuttal week ended with authors, reviewers and chairs all reporting the same silence News
The NeurIPS 2026 author discussion window closed on 3 August with multiple independent reports of reviewers and area chairs never responding to rebuttals, in a cycle the conference redesigned specifically to make that discussion consequential.
Terence Tao says the bottleneck in AI-assisted mathematics is understanding, not proofs News
In an ICM public lecture, Terence Tao argues that AI and formal proof systems accelerate generating and verifying proofs but not explaining, reviewing or canonicalizing them, so correct results could pile up faster than the field can absorb them.