{"id":451,"date":"2008-10-20T13:54:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T19:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=451"},"modified":"2008-10-20T13:55:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T19:55:44","slug":"new-yorks-ml-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"New York’s ML Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not as naturally exuberant as Muthu<\/a> 2<\/a> or David<\/a> about CS\/Econ<\/a> day, but I believe it and ML day<\/a> were certainly successful.<\/p>\n

At the CS\/Econ day, I particularly enjoyed Toumas Sandholm’s<\/a> talk which showed a commanding depth of understanding and application in automated auctions.<\/p>\n

For the machine learning day, I enjoyed several talks and posters (I better, I helped pick them.). What stood out to me was number of people attending: 158 registered, a level qualifying as “scramble to find seats”. My rule of thumb for workshops\/conferences is that the number of attendees is often something like the number of submissions. That isn’t the case here, where there were just 4 invited speakers and 30-or-so posters. Presumably, the difference is due to a critical mass of Machine Learning interested people in the area and the ease of their attendance. <\/p>\n

Are there other areas where a local Machine Learning day would fly? It’s easy to imagine something working out in the San Francisco bay area and possibly Germany or England.<\/p>\n

The basic formula for the ML day is a committee picks a few people to give talks, and posters are invited, with some of them providing short presentations. The CS\/Econ day was similar, except they managed to let every submitter do a presentation. Are there tweaks to the format which would improve things?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not as naturally exuberant as Muthu 2 or David about CS\/Econ day, but I believe it and ML day were certainly successful. At the CS\/Econ day, I particularly enjoyed Toumas Sandholm’s talk which showed a commanding depth of understanding and application in automated auctions. For the machine learning day, I enjoyed several talks and … <\/p>\n

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