A short pause in the summer break… for a presentation at the 2025 ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability (https://acm-rep.github.io/2025/), a super important but overlooked topic in science! I presented the paper entitled “Teaching Reproducibility and Embracing Variability: From Floating-Point Experiments to Replicating Research”| Mathieu Acher
This is not just another blog post about chess—or at least, not only about chess. While the setting involves Stockfish, the world’s strongest open-source chess engine, the real discussion here is broader: How do we carefully assess inconsistencies in complex AI systems? When an AI model—or a highly optimized program—seems to violate fundamental expectations, how do we tell the difference between a genuine bug and an artifact of the evaluation setup? These questions brought me to the p...| Mathieu Acher