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Introduction: There will be no New York ML Symposium this year. The core issue is that NYAS is disorganized by people leaving, pushing back the date, with the current candidate a spring symposium on March 28. Gunnar and I were outvoted here—we were gung ho on organizing a fall symposium, but the rest of the committee wants to wait. In some good news, most of the ICML 2012 videos have been restored from a deep backup.
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