db1024's comments

Deepmask is something else.

Only a few sessions are available. http://s2016.siggraph.org/live-streaming-sessions

BTW, ACM had fairly strict no photography policies this year. Authors clearly put up content on their slides that were supposed to be photographed liked URLs and QR codes, but volunteers went around telling people not to. I'm not sure if ACM failed to make the policy clear to authors or if they overstepped on copyright claims.

> Do they have automagic model parallelization (not data parallelization) as well?

Not that I know of.

Regarding claims of novelty, I don't think the Caffe maintainers are claiming that their multi-gpu update method is novel or even very good. I think it was just the easiest thing someone could think of. I think Flickr originally wrote the multi-gpu extensions and the maintainers simply accepted the pull request.

If anything, I think the maintainers are more than willing to listen to people in the scientific computing community with experience. Even better if they have a pull request in hand. But otherwise, they probably won't know about better methods and won't care.

I wouldn't call it stupid. It was fine for when they wrote it. I would say their solution is a bit outdated though. I am a bit surprised that NVIDIA isn't allocating more engineering support to Caffe to make sure they support all of NVIDIA's latest features in a timely fashion. Torch at least tries to use nccl for nn.DataParallelTable by default.

I recently interviewed at Google and one coding interview had the most adversarial interviewer that I've ever encountered. It started with the interviewer complaining that he was busy. Everything from the language I chose to each line I wrote received complaints. By time we got past the first question, I thought maybe this was actually a behavioral interview in disguise to see how I'd deal with adversarial coworkers.

I got an offer from them, but I declined without hesitation. I interviewed at Facebook and that process was great. At least one of my coding interviewers did read/skim my github code beforehand. Woo, keep it up!

I was served this when I visited Google's Seattle office last week.

It depends on the conference or journal they submit to. I typically request that authors release data and code in the review and the same is requested of me when I submit a paper for review. I don't know, maybe CHI doesn't have that sort of culture. Or maybe they do and these students just don't have the time right now and plan to do it right before the conference in May.