last night, Douwe Kiela sent me a link to this article by Ted Chiang. i was already quite drunk already back then, quickly read the whole column and posted the following tweet: Delip Rao then retweeted and said that he does not “buy his lossy compression analogy for LMs”, in particular in the context of JPEG compression. Delip and i exchanged a few tweets earlier today, and i thought i’d state it here in a blog post how i described in the following tweet why i think LM and JPEG have the same conceptual background: one way in which I
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[NeurIPS’22] Chasing reviewers
as some of you may have noticed, i was one of the program chairs of NeurIPS’22 which just ended last Friday (December 9 2022). it was a two-week-long conference with the first week being in person in New Orleans which was followed by the virtual week. program chairs were mostly tasked with running the review process for the main track of the conference and inviting keynote speakers, and there were other organizing committee members who have taken care of various other aspects of the conference, including expos, workshops, tutorials, datasets and benchmark track, social events, affinity workshops and many more,
Donation to “청포도” 보호종료아동을 위한 커뮤니티 케어 센터
Prof. Sukyoung Ryu, who’s the Dean of School of Computing at KAIST (my alma mater) and a professor of computer science, posted on her facebook wall about a donation campaign by the “Green Grapes” Community Care Center for Children Graduating from Social Protection Program (“청포도” 보호종료아동을 위한 커뮤니티 케어 센터; i just made up this translation and am sure it doesn’t do the justice to the original Korean name.) this center’s main mission is to provide various educational programs as well as run support programs for those who are exiting social support systems for minors, such as foster homes, group
My opening statement at the ICML 2022 Debate
i was honoured to participate in the ICML Debate 2022 on the topic of <Progress towards achieving AI will be mostly driven by engineering not science>. the debate was in the British Parliamentary Style which i was not familiar with at all but found interesting. i was assigned to the opposition party and was designated as the “leader”, which meant i had to open the debate from the opposition side following the opening from the proposition. the proposition party consisted of Sella Nevo, Maya R. Gupta and François Charton. Been Kim was unfortunately unable to participate, although she would’ve been
[TMLR] how to check the difference between revisions
Together with Openreview, TMLR strives to provide as much useful information as possible to reviewers and action editors in order to improve the quality of reviewing and publication. As part of this effort, we provide a way for reviewers as well as action editors to easily compare revisions of their assigned submission throughout the process of reviewing. Here, we give you a brief instruction on how to do so. First, go to your assigned submission. Here, I’m using an already-accepted paper at TMLR. On the submission page, you will see “Show Revisions” button below the title: If you click “Show