Around the blogs in 78 minutes: NIPS2015 edition

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A few people who attended the NIPS conference ended up writing about it and about the OpenAI announcement, here are the few I noticed: 

• On the spirit of NIPS 2015 and OpenAI by Sebastien Bubeck 
• Introducing OpenAI by Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and the OpenAI team  
• OpenAI: Some thoughts, mostly questions by David J Klein
• OpenAI — quick thoughts by Ben Goertzel
• On Marc Deisenroth's Machine Learning Blog  one could read:

• NIPS 2015 – Deep RL Workshop
• Bayesian Optimization Workshop at NIPS 2015
• NIPS 2015 Posner Lecture – Zoubin Ghahramani: Probabilistic Machine Learning
• NIPS 2015 – RL Tutorial

OffConvex is a new blog by contributors: Sanjeev Arora, Moritz Hardt, Nisheeth Vishnoi

• Why go off the convex path?
• Semantic Word Embeddings by Sanjeev

In another thread Jeff Hammerbacher, responded on Quora to this question: What was the main takeaway from Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyal's NIPs 2015 tutorial on distributed ANN training?

Neil Lawrence's 10 ways you might be able to tell when an area of research is undergoing rapid expansion and society's expectations may be somewhat unrealistic ...

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Pluto’s Close-up, Now in Color
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Keywords: LORRI, MVIC, Pluto, Ralph This enhanced color mosaic combines some of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its July 14 flyby. The pictures are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto, with resolutions of about 250-280 feet (77-85 meters) per pixel – revealing features smaller than half a city block on Pluto’s surface. Lower resolution color data (at about 2,066 feet, or 630 meters, per pixel) were added to create this new image.

 

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