It’s been a busy few days at NeurIPS 2020 so far with all manner of talks, workshops, tutorials and socials on offer. This selection of tweets gives a flavour of the various events and discussions taking place.

Some great invited talks

@isbellHFh's #NeurIPS2020 keynote is seriously so good. It's incredibly funny, thoughful and so important to ML as whole. Go watch it right now, you won't regret it! 👏👏👏

— Theresa Eimer (@The_Eimer) December 8, 2020

fascinating keynote at #NeurIPS2020 by @isbellHFh pic.twitter.com/etJyrJLe5A

— Kyunghyun Cho (@kchonyc) December 8, 2020

Interesting talk by Chris Bishop at #NeurIPS2020
Basic or Applied research is not a 1D space. it's 2D! pic.twitter.com/sLqprptmMJ

— Hamid EBZD (@heghbalz) December 9, 2020

Next up at #NeurIPS2020: Shafi Goldwasser presenting on three works about privacy, verifiability, and robustness in machine learning.
Link: https://t.co/EZpPV8QQZ0
Papers:
1: https://t.co/oDTJ2kR787
2: https://t.co/NxTDIZ5bOU
3: https://t.co/xpoiIvblzP pic.twitter.com/5qSkPLnApI

— Gautam Kamath (@thegautamkamath) December 9, 2020

I am honored to be giving a keynote at NeurIPS tomorrow!

I will present about the invisible workers who are driving our A.I. industry and discuss how we can co-design with them to create a more empowering future of work 👊🏾🔧

Join me!
👉🏾https://t.co/5WP2MEyRjI#neurips2020 #AI pic.twitter.com/u2Je17Ul5C

— Dr. Saiph Savage 🏛🧪⭔ (@saiphcita) December 8, 2020

From the affinity workshops

Very interesting and relevant talk by @MihaelaVDS on "Interpretable AutoML: Powering the machine learning revolution in healthcare in the era of Covid-19 and beyond", and the importance (and challenges) of extracting actionable insights from medical data #WiML2020 #NeurIPS2020 pic.twitter.com/q5wVG9f2Ae

— Victoria Foing (@VictoriaFoing) December 9, 2020

Loved Brazilian physicist Sonia Guimarães's "My Journey, Advocacy Work to Improve Brazilian Scientists Diversity" at Black in AI workshop #NeurIPS2020 where she shared her experience of sexism & racism in her life and how she's helping next generation overcome these issues.

— Hongsup Shin (@hongsupshin) December 8, 2020

Wow! I am absolutely blown away by @sambarhino’s chat at the @black_in_ai Workshop at Neurips! I didn’t even think about where machine learning could’ve come from and the historical embedding of oppression within the math. Mind officially stretched!🔥👏🏾

— Kenya A (@sckenya_) December 7, 2020

Now at #MuslimsInML workshop 🌙. @abidlabs on how GPT3 has signifant anti-muslim bias, particularly in reference to violence. 1/n pic.twitter.com/5DpPOT0eWz

— Shakir Mohamed (@shakir_za) December 8, 2020

“Take risks. If you aren’t failing a lot, it means you aren’t taking enough risks.”

Thank you Dr. Samy Bengio for sharing your research journey @NewInML, #NeurIPS2020. Found it very inspiring. This slide neatly sums up all key points from the talk. 👇 pic.twitter.com/mAAQJscth3

— Saasha Nair (@saasha_nair) December 8, 2020

Up next: a panel on trans-inclusive academic publishing with @TessTanenbaum @irv_does_chem @r_speer and others on trans inclusive academic publishing practices. Thrilled to uplift and engage with this vital work! 🧵

— QueerInAI (@QueerinAI) December 8, 2020

The website has been updated for Indigenous In AI’s inaugural event: https://t.co/M5rDSRFoek#Indigenous #NeurIPS2020 #indigenousinai #indigenousai #ai pic.twitter.com/pOVnyK7eCi

— Michael Running Wolf (@Obnoxious_Wolf) December 7, 2020

We want to congratulate Octavio Arriaga (@Octavio_Arriaga) and Matias Valdenegro (@mvaldenegro) for winning Best Oral Presentation Award at #LatinXInAI #NeurIPS2020 for their paper: Unsupervised Difficulty Estimation with Action Scores (https://t.co/N2GsYm0zU9)

— LatinX in AI (LXAI) @ NeurIPS 2020 (@_LXAI) December 9, 2020

A number of tutorials took place on Monday

Probably one of the clearest tutorials on integration methods in the ML context and dynamical GPs I've ever seen. A lot of connections were made. And @mpd37 lecture slides never disappoints! #NeurIPS2020 pic.twitter.com/aDUr2bN1Wb

— J. Emmanuel Johnson (@jejjohnson) December 7, 2020

had a lot of fun presenting a tutorial at #NeurIPS2020 with @davidwhogg on Machine Learning for Astrophysics! thanks to all who came; see the slides at https://t.co/HnKu4BvJLk. ++ check out our astrodata colab notebooks at https://t.co/apx1JyuunQ (& 2, 3, 4!) #NeurIPSastro

— Kate Storey-Fisher (@katestoreyfish) December 7, 2020

Nice takeaway from Deep Implicit Layer tutorial at #neurIPS2020 pic.twitter.com/SsJWcAR26T

— 🔥囧Robert Osazuwa Ness囧🔥 (@osazuwa) December 7, 2020

Join @DavidDuvenaud, @SingularMattrix, and me at 1:30pm PT for our NeurIPS tutorial on Deep Implicit Layers. Neural ODEs, Deep Equilibrium Models, and differentiable optimization!

Extensive notes on companion webpage: https://t.co/2sGS5E6uEe
NeurIPS link: https://t.co/XpFiIWfT0D pic.twitter.com/v2quL9K8zO

— Zico Kolter (@zicokolter) December 7, 2020

Gathertown is being used as the virtual space for posters, socials and more

Wearing my layers.. have a hot brew.. and am ready! #NeurIPS2020 pic.twitter.com/DKAGR4vS3R

— Sekou L Remy (@SekouLRemy) December 7, 2020

When life imitates gathertown #neurips2020 pic.twitter.com/pSbdXnaRln

— Julie J. Lee 🧚 (@synapticlee) December 9, 2020

I must admit: going from poster to poster in Gather Town and "pressing x to interact" is more fun than I had thought.. #NeurIPS2020

— Gargi Balasubramaniam (@gargi_balasu) December 9, 2020

We are thrilled to announce that #WiML2020 features participant-hosted socials that will take place pre/during/post the workshop in #WiML https://t.co/IW7YN3cUY6. Great opportunity to meet fellow participants in a fun and casual setting. Details here: https://t.co/PzYl7i4mAe pic.twitter.com/SyVKUHWL2D

— WiML (@WiMLworkshop) December 8, 2020

I had a lot of fun, and hope all of you did too! A great turnout for our social, with over 100 people. Pic from the end (with privacy-preserving measures). Thanks again to co-host @aloni_bologna, panelists @NathalieBaraca1 @korolova @Kobbini @BNonnecke @paulohm, and @gather_town https://t.co/EdEuLdXRpn pic.twitter.com/9UP35V6B28

— Gautam Kamath (@thegautamkamath) December 8, 2020

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