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NIPS 2017 Notes [pdf]
- fredmonroe 9y agothanks for doing these, really appreciated
- formalsystem 9y agoWow can't appreciate this enough. You put this together really quickly!
- hackandtrip 9y agoWonderful content, appreciate those notes over usual videos that come out, really more usable. Is there a place where wonderful people usually share notes on conference like those?
- Dangeranger 9y agoIt makes me laugh thinking that these notes were probably written in LaTex and then exported. The formatting for this overview is pretty great though. PDF with a TOC makes a very nice means of navigation.
- castle-bravo 9y agoIt may have been done in org-mode and then exported to LaTeX. That's how I'd do it, anyway.
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- pdxdabel 9y ago(David/author here): I haven't actually seen org-mode before. I'll take a look! I wrote these in sharelatex using a template and commands file I put together that help write notes quickly in latex (they're available here if anyone is interested: https://github.com/david-abel/latex_docs https://github.com/david-abel/latex_docs).
- Dangeranger 9y agoGary Schwartz[0] and Howard Abrams[1][2] both have nice explainers about org-mode which explain the advantages and how to get started. There's also a nice discussion on the Emacs Reddit page[3] about "Why Org-Mode?" [0] https://harryrschwartz.com/2016/04/29/getting-started-with-org-mode.html https://harryrschwartz.com/2016/04/29/getting-started-with-o... [1] http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/learning-org-mode.html http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/learning-org-mode.h... [2] http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/journaling-org.html http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/journaling-org.html [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/3nvmvr/why_orgmode/ https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/3nvmvr/why_orgmode/
- Cyph0n 9y agoIs "exported" the correct term to use here? I would say the notes were written in LaTeX, and then compiled (in the software compiler sense) to a PDF.
- Dangeranger 9y agoYou are likely correct, exported is the wrong word, and my mind was within my personal org-mode workflow.
- AlexCoventry 9y agoI was guessing org-mode -> LaTeX -> PDF. org-mode is much better for taking notes.
- emmelaich 9y agoNIPS stands for "Neural Information Processing Systems" (took me a while but I found it!)
- tuxguy 9y agothese are awesome !!! thanks a bunch David, @stablemap !
- daferna 9y agoSomebody get this guy a PhD!
- pdxdabel 9y agoHi all! David (the author) here -- first, thanks for the kind words and thanks to @stablemap for sharing! I'm glad folks have found them useful. I'm planning on putting these together to future conferences I attend, too (I'm currently a 3rd year Ph.D student so I should be attending a few in the coming years).
- mi_lk 9y agoHi David, very impressive of your notes, especially in this knowledge-intense machine learning conference, the way you organize diverse topics and have short summaries about them seems like a very useful skill to have. Do you have any methods/tips that you can share about your note-taking skills?
- pdxdabel 9y agoInvesting in a particular set of tools has been really critical for me -- once I found that I liked the flexibility and power of latex, I put effort into simplifying the process of using it. So, for instance, I made some macros for commands that I use frequently, and a put together a latex template that includes the packages and basic structure of documents I write. Otherwise, just practice! I forced myself to write notes during class in latex when I took information theory earlier in grad school and that helped a lot. Hope this helps. If I think of anything else I'll be sure to come back and post!
- lustig 9y agoHi David! Thanks for a great summary! I will keep an eye on your blog for notes from upcoming conferences.
- DyslexicAtheist 9y agoThe event has also been compared to a dumpster fire[0] due to "sexualized events & speeches", is this guy exaggerating or is it safe to go there for women? Pretty off-putting tbh [0] https://twitter.com/haldaume3/status/939910697911066624 https://twitter.com/haldaume3/status/939910697911066624
- yamaneko 9y agoSmitha Milli gave a bit more of context about what happened. Link to her thread: - https://twitter.com/SmithaMilli/status/940012716797739008 https://twitter.com/SmithaMilli/status/940012716797739008
- DyslexicAtheist 9y agothanks, rather unspectacular then.
- briga 9y agoThis seems like a pretty harmless joke to me. I have difficulty imagining why anyone would be offended by this, unless there's more to the story
- peoplewindow 9y agoWell, according to the notes there was an entire talk about bias where the example of a Turkish sentence that didn't contain gendered pronouns "X is a nurse, X is a doctor" gets translated to "She is a nurse, he is a doctor" by Google Translate. And apparently that's a problem that needs fixing rather than a reasonable translation, although we all know that Google Translate is trained on the work of human translators, where it presumably learned this (demographically correct) bias from. So I guess they need fixing too. Seems like NIPS might have a systematic issue with hyper-sensitivity to perceived slights. But it's the intersection of academia and SV companies so is it really a surprise?
- lemondrops 9y agoAlso, this? https://twitter.com/SamiraEKahou/status/940085885101412352 https://twitter.com/SamiraEKahou/status/940085885101412352 I don't get why anyone but the wife herself should be offended by this.
- eli_gottlieb 9y agoIt's interesting that when asked about why we use hierarchical methods in RL, ML, and cogsci, people haven't talked about the circuit complexity and information-theoretic reasons for using hierarchies. IIRC, a "deeper" circuit can represent a given function with exponentially fewer units/gates than a "shallower" circuit, and hierarchical methods also narrow down only the predictive information in the (supervised) dataset, according to information-bottleneck methods.