NIPS 2010 - My favourite quotes [updated]
Here are some of the quotes of this conference that were more on the lighter side and that made me at least chuckle: Josh Tenenbaum about 1970s linguists: "They didn't have any computers these days. At least none that we would now recognize as computer." Geoff Hinton on Josh Tenenbaums talk about "How to grow a mind": "You made the right generalization of Deep Learning from one example." (Hinting at Josh Tenenbaums interest in one-shot-learning) Some more of Geoff Hinton: On optimizing a non-convex likelihood function: "In good neural network fashion we add noise and momentum and hope for the best." On the same topic: "Now we allow the propabilities to add up to 4. I accidentally forgot to normalize them and they were 2. When I normalized them to one, the result got worse. So I went in the other direction." David W. Hogg in the Sam Roweis symposium: "In astronomy, we work at the photon level. We don't have big b...