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> NeurIPS That was fast. I was all for a name change from a juvenile pun, but "NeurIPS" is hilariously bad. It confirms, that everyone but the press, continue
by screye 8y ago
> NeurIPS
That was fast.
I was all for a name change from a juvenile pun, but "NeurIPS" is hilariously bad. It confirms, that everyone but the press, continues calling it NIPS.
> line to see Flo-Rida went around the block
I mean, if it was a free (already paid for) concert, then I would go for it too.
- eanzenberg 8y agoNot just free concert but free food and booze. BTW the whole renaming of NIPS to NeurIPS could be an episode of SV, where a board of directors are all offended by names of body parts!
- r00fus 8y agoLet's just ignore the racial epithet part shall we?
- titanomachy 8y ago"Nip" used to be a somewhat common perjorative term for Japanese (i.e. Nipponese; the Japanese word for Japan is Nippon). In case anyone else was confused by this comment.
- eanzenberg 8y agoI've never heard it used in this context, but I guess people can get offended by pretty much anything these days.
- mikeash 8y agoIt’s real but old timey. Unless you’re quite a bit older than the HN average, you probably wouldn’t have heard it. That, of course, doesn’t mean it’s ok.
- JetSpiegel 8y agoOr you read Cryptonomicon.
- freeone3000 8y ago"So tell me, what's wrong with the Proceedings of Neural Information Systems again?"