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Star power at NIPS:

"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, CTO Michael Schroepfer and I are at the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference in Lake Tahoe today. Mark will announce the news during his presentation at the NIPS Workshop on Deep Learning later today."

It seems Zuckerberg will have an apres-ski Q&A, and be in a panel discussion at day's end (https://sites.google.com/site/deeplearningworkshopnips2013/s...). Hope the room is big enough.

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At NIPS now. There have been rumors going around that Zuckerberg might have just been interested in attending, giving a casual Q&A, not announcing anything like this - but with this announcement, I foresee them having to take down all of the dividers in Harveys ;)

Could you post some bullet points of what was said there? Would be really appreciated by everyone I'm sure!

Unfortunately I didn't make it to his talks - was in other workshops where it would have been impolite to leave. Did get to see him as he was walking off stage though! More relevantly, though, many of my collaborators did attend the deep learning workshop, so I'll grill them about the details over dinner and post about it!

Thanks! Would be interesting to hear what areas FB is trying to apply deep learning to? One obvious area is recognition of objects and people in photos, but I wonder if they plan to use it on other type of data like say text for sentiment analysis or for recommendation engines of various kind?

That would be interesting. I used to be involved with NIPS in the late 1990s, but have crossed paths with LeCun on and off since then. He's an amazing talent, with tremendous breadth.

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