NIPS 2017 Notes [pdf]

[pdxdabel]

Hi 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]

Hi 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?

[lustig]

Hi David! Thanks for a great summary! I will keep an eye on your blog for notes from upcoming conferences.

[eli_gottlieb]

It'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.

[hackandtrip]

Wonderful 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?

[emmelaich]

NIPS stands for "Neural Information Processing Systems"

(took me a while but I found it!)

[Dangeranger]

It 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.

[Cyph0n]

Is "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.

[AlexCoventry]

I was guessing org-mode -> LaTeX -> PDF. org-mode is much better for taking notes.

[castle-bravo]

It may have been done in org-mode and then exported to LaTeX. That's how I'd do it, anyway.

[daferna]

Somebody get this guy a PhD!

[fredmonroe]

thanks for doing these, really appreciated

[formalsystem]

Wow can't appreciate this enough. You put this together really quickly!

[tuxguy]

these are awesome !!! thanks a bunch David, @stablemap !

[DyslexicAtheist]

The 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

[yamaneko]

Smitha Milli gave a bit more of context about what happened. Link to her thread:

- https://twitter.com/SmithaMilli/status/940012716797739008

[lemondrops]

Also, this? https://twitter.com/SamiraEKahou/status/940085885101412352

I don't get why anyone but the wife herself should be offended by this.