LM101-069: What Happened at the 2017 Neural Information Processing

LM101-069: What Happened at the 2017 Neural Information Processing Systems Conference?

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This 69th episode of Learning Machines 101 provides a short overview of the 2017 Neural Information Processing Systems conference with a focus on the development of methods for teaching learning machines rather than simply training them on examples. In addition, a book review of the book “Deep Learning” is provided.

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