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?
(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).
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).
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?
Investing 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!
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
Well, 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?
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.
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[ 5.3 ms ] story [ 69.6 ms ] threadThe formatting for this overview is pretty great though. PDF with a TOC makes a very nice means of navigation.
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).
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-o...
[1] http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/learning-org-mode.h...
[2] http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/journaling-org.html
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/3nvmvr/why_orgmode/
(took me a while but I found it!)
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).
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!
[0] https://twitter.com/haldaume3/status/939910697911066624
- https://twitter.com/SmithaMilli/status/940012716797739008
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?
I don't get why anyone but the wife herself should be offended by this.