Through the Eyes of Birds and Frogs: Writing and Surveys in Machine Learning Research

Savoured the opportunity to talk about writing surveys and reviews at the NeurIPS2020 Workshop on ML Retrospectives, Surveys & Meta-Analyses (ML-RSA) This is the text of the talk. 🎞Watch the video here and 🖥 slides here Hello! My name is … Continue reading Through the Eyes of Birds and Frogs: Writing and Surveys in Machine Learning Research

A Year of Approximate Inference: Review of the NIPS 2015 Workshop

[dropcap]Probabilistic[/dropcap] inference lies no longer at the fringe. The importance of how we connect our observed data to the assumptions made by our statistical models—the task of inference—was a central part of this year's Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference: Zoubin Ghahramani's opening keynote … Continue reading A Year of Approximate Inference: Review of the NIPS 2015 Workshop