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Introduction: About 200 people attended the 2010 NYAS ML Symposium this year. (It was about 170 last year .) I particularly enjoyed several talks. Yann has a new live demo of (limited) real-time object recognition learning. Sanjoy gave a fairly convincing and comprehensible explanation of why a modified form of single-linkage clustering is consistent in higher dimensions, and why consistency is a critical feature for clustering algorithms. I’m curious how well this algorithm works in practice. Matt Hoffman ‘s poster covering online LDA seemed pretty convincing to me as an algorithmic improvement. This year, we allocated more time towards posters & poster spotlights. For next year, we are considering some further changes. The format has traditionally been 4 invited Professor speakers, with posters and poster spotlight for students. Demand from other parties to participate is growing, for example from postdocs and startups in the area. Another growing concern is the fa
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