Written by David Martínez-Rubio in collaboration with Sebastian Pokutta. Does the common CS conference publication model with a fixed low acceptance rate over submissions make sense? What are some consequences of it? Here, I analyze some interesting properties that model the reviewing and acceptance system of machine learning conferences, but applies to CS more generally. Disclaimer: This is a toy model and more knowledgeable people have devoted greater effort to other models and ideas [1, 2, 3,...