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Thanks for offering your insight! Slightly tangential question, but on reading the article I was surprised that it mentioned multiple anonymous submissions, gi

• duvenaud 6y ago
  The names of all the authors are clearly listed on the workshop website [1]. I think this is just a case of incompetence on the part of the journalist. https://beyondbackprop.github.io/ https://beyondbackprop.github.io/
  • Ar-Curunir 6y ago
    The submission process is anonymous, but after papers are accepted there’s no need for anonymity, so author names are published. Don’t see why youre questioning the competence of the journalist if you don’t know the submission process yourself.
    • duvenaud 6y ago
      To be charitable, you could call it misleading laziness. But the article was published long after all the papers were de-anonymized, so it seems perverse to explain that the submissions were originally anonymous instead of just giving the authors' names. Furthermore, the journalist managed to write an entire article about a workshop without once naming it, giving a link, or even defining backpropagation. Edit: I want to say that I understand it's hard to cover an area that you're not an expert in. But if the journalist had googled the title of the articles he was writing about, he would have found the authors' names. Instead he gave the reader the impression that the articles are still anonymous.
• Ar-Curunir 6y ago
  Submissions are anonymous, but after acceptance papers are unblinded