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🛠️ About Technical Reviews 🛠️

Previously, technical reviews were held as part of content curation for The Fifth Elephant and Rootconf conferences.

🚣🚣🚣 Starting 2025, technical reviews will be held as a weekly basis. Here’s how the reviews will work:

  • All submissions made here will be reviewed by (practitising) reviewers via online meetings.
  • Two technical reviewers will participate in each review. They will provide feedback on:
    • whether the solution/approach worked in the organization;
    • if there is an element of novelty in the work shared (optional); and
    • validity of the idea/approach.
  • A text summary of the feedback shared during the review will be published after every review.

🏅🏅🏅 Why reviews 🏅🏅🏅

Reviews are valuable for:

  1. Receiving critical feedback - for the work you are doing.
  2. The feedback helps you identify technical gaps in your work, analysis, or presentation. These gaps inevitably exist because we are often too focused on getting things to work and into production. But presenting your work to the rest of the world requires having a well rounded overview of the terrain, and identifying why others should consider this solution. The early critical feedback from reviewers helps massively.
  3. Reviews can give you insights on the further experiments, analysis, comparisons that you may need to pursue to mature your product or research or efforts.
  4. Being through such a review gives you - the submitter - a stamp of quality and trust as it has been vetted by a community of peers.
  5. Reviewed submissions go into the funnel for The Fifth Elephant Annual Conference pool of proposals, and for other activities hosted and supported by Fifthel. Curators for the Annual Conference and other activities will decide on tracks and topics, and pick talks/sessions from the reviewed pool1.

☑️ How to make a submission for a review; and the preparation you have to do before the review ☑️

  1. Be detailed about the problem/pain are you trying to solve. Communicate this clear clearly so that the audiences and the reviewers have a good understanding before the review.
  2. What were the insights/lessons you learned from this problem/approach? Share some concrete takeaways which will interest audiences sitting in the review - and will help them to learn from your work, and apply in their practice.
  3. Before the review:
    • Create a mind map or a flow diagram to explain the problem/solution to the audience.
    • Use the mind map or flow diagram as an anchor for your talking points. Slides are not required at this stage.
    • The spoken presentation should be 10-15 minutes long. Think of it as an extended flash talk2.
    • Keep the presentation interactive.
    • Keep code/architecture/internals details handy to show - if reviewers and the participating audience ask for these.

🗣️ Use the above guidelines while ensuring that the submission is in your own unique and authentic voice. 🗣️ Reviews are participatory, and are meant to be eduational/informative for the community.

🎟️ Participation in the reviews; access to recording 🎟️

The Fifth Elephant members get to participate in online reviews, and access recordings afterwards. The Fifth Elephant membership is annual, i.e., valid for one year - 12 months! Members get the following benefits:

  1. Participation in all online peer review sessions.
  2. Access to recordings from online reviews.
  3. Priority access to all online/offline meet-ups and workshops hosted by The Fifth Elephant during the one year period.
  4. Access to The Fifth Elephant’s annual conference on 18 and 19 July in Bangalore - in-person and virtually (via live stream).

🎟️🎟️ Pick a membership to participate in The Fifth Elephant’s activities

Queries

If you’d like to get your work reviewed, leave a comment at https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/ai-ml-submissions-for-technical-reviews/comments
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  1. Credits for framing - and the text - mentioned in the section on “Why Reviews” goes to Abhinav Upadhyay, an independent practitioner who has been very generous with inputs. ↩︎

  2. Thanks to Pramod Biligiri, curator at The Fifth Elephant (and Rootconf) for sharing this insight. ↩︎

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