We return for another installment of Stephanie Summarises a Conference. My previous work in this area is NIPS 2015, AAAI 2016, and ICML 2016. I was pleasantly surprised at NIPS to be asked if I was going to write one of these again. Apparently someone somehow found my blog. Ignorance …

I got back from Montreal yesterday. I was at the Twenty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) - a rather large gathering of people interested in machine learning, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and related topics. It's an academic conference, and it is intense. Many wonderful conversations were had, things learned …

I recently attended the Machine Learning Summer School at the MPI in Tübingen. This wasn't my first time at an event like this - I attended the Gaussian Process 'Summer' School in September 2014 - but the MLSS is a lot bigger/diverse. I'm fairly sure I didn't even speak to all …