May 2017

AlphaGo, in context

digitado ⋅ 31 de May de 2017

Update Oct 18, 2017: AlphaGo Zero was announced. This post refers to the previous version. 95% of it still applies. I had a chance to talk to several people about the recent AlphaGo matches with Ke Jie and others. In particular, most of the coverage was a mix of popular science + PR so the most common questions I’ve seen were along the lines of “to what extent is AlphaGo a breakthrough?”, “How do researchers in AI see its […]

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ICML accepted papers institution stats

digitado ⋅ 24 de May de 2017

The accepted papers at ICML have been published. ICML is a top Machine Learning conference, and one of the most relevant to Deep Learning, although NIPS has a longer DL tradition and ICLR, being more focused, has a much higher DL density. Most mentioned institutions I thought it would be fun to compute some stats on institutions. Armed with Jupyter Notebook and regex, we look for all of the institution mentions, add up their counts and sort. Modulo a […]

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