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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!

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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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