The conference NeurIPS instituted a new reviewing policy this year:

“In order to cope with the growing number of submissions, this year we will adopt an “early desk-reject” process involving only Area Chairs and Senior Area Chairs. Area Chairs will be responsible for…

Recently the following game was proposed on twitter:

5 poker players go to house in WSOP. There is one master unbelievable room everybody wants. To determine who gets the room everybody writes a number 1–10. Whoever writes the highest UNIQUE number gets…

In the Weakest Link game show, eight contestants answer a series of trivia questions to accumulate a “bank” of money, with one contestant (the “weakest link”) voted off at each round. When there are 2 contestants remaining, they face off for a series of 5 questions each, with the winner…

You may recall the origin of the holiday Festivus in Seinfeld, as described by Frank Costanza:

FRANK: Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reach for the last one they had — but so did another man. As I rained blows…