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Introduction: A reminder that the New York Academy of Sciences will be hosting the 7th Annual Machine Learning Symposium tomorrow from 9:30am. The main program will feature invited talks from Peter Bartlett , William Freeman , and Vladimir Vapnik , along with numerous spotlight talks and a poster session. Following the main program, hackNY and Microsoft Research are sponsoring a networking hour with talks from machine learning practitioners at NYC startups (specifically bit.ly , Buzzfeed , Chartbeat , and Sense Networks , Visual Revenue ). This should be of great interest to everyone considering working in machine learning.
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