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Introduction: Everyone should have received notice for NY ML Symposium abstracts. Check carefully, as one was lost by our system. The event itself is October 21, next week. Leon Bottou , Stephen Boyd , and Yoav Freund are giving the invited talks this year, and there are many spotlights on local work spread throughout the day. Chris Wiggins has setup 6(!) ML-interested startups to follow the symposium, which should be of substantial interest to the employment interested. I also wanted to give an update on ICML 2012 . Unlike last year, our deadline is coordinated with AIStat (which is due this Friday). The paper deadline for ICML has been pushed back to February 24 which should allow significant time for finishing up papers after the winter break. Other details may interest people as well: We settled on using CMT after checking out the possibilities. I wasn’t looking for this, because I’ve often found CMT clunky in terms of easy access to the right information. Nevert
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15 We now have a permanent server and the beginnings of the permanent website setup. [sent-22, score-0.419]
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