Readings
My first semester on a “real job” was sufficiently busy to prevent me from reading as much as I would have wanted. I also blame the driving commute. Hidden History of New Jersey [Joseph G. Bilby, James...
View ArticleNIPS 2014 Review Quality Control Procedure
I got this email yesterday: Dear Author of a NIPS 2014 Submission, You are in for a treat! This year we will carry out an experiment that will give us insight to the fairness and consistency of the...
View ArticleLine-item cost of one student-year on a grant?
I am in the process of writing some proposals and am encountering the fun task of generating budgets for those proposals. Rutgers, like many cash-strapped schools, imposes a hefty “overhead” charge on...
View ArticleGreetings from ICML 2014
The famous “bird nest” Greetings from ICML 2014! I will attempt to blog the conference in between attending sessions, giving my talk and poster, and stressing out about writing my CAREER award. Despite...
View ArticleICML 2014: Some talks and posters
I was a somewhat inconsistent note-taker here. Because a lot of the talks I attended were sufficiently out-of-area for me that I didn’t get the context for the work, I often found myself jotting a few...
View ArticleICML 2014: thoughts on the format
This is my first time at ICML, and every paper here has a talk and a poster. It’s a lot of work to prepare, but one nice benefit is that because my poster had to be done before I left, the talk was...
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