Field report from EWRL, part 2

EWRL is over now, the next part of the is late not only because of the internet access difficulties, but because of extreme exhaustion. Talks from 9am to 6pm, then spontaneous social events with various people, closed by a great banquet (held in a place that functioned as brothel, theater and porn cinema in various stages of its existence, then transformed into a luxurious restaurant). And we’ve got the coolest conference T-shirt ever.

Field report from EWRL, part 1

Well, “part 1″ in the title implies that there will be more, which is quite an optimistic statement considering the hazy state of the wifi network. But apart from that minor point, the conference is absolutely great. I mean, if there are two or three talks on a conference that fit my interests, then it’s already OK for me – and EWRL has much higher hit ratio this far. Here comes my highly subjective selection.

Conference time

As you possibly all know, EWRL starts tomorrow, followed immediately by ICML (then UAI and COLT). I will be there on the first two, so probably there won’t be many new posts in the next one-and-a-half weeks. After that, however, I guess my head will be full of things to blog about. So, stay tuned :-)

Also, the Second Annual RL-competition is held on the workshop day of ICML, where my Tetris code is trying to do its best. Unfortunately, I had much less time tending it than I expected, but results are not bad this far. I intend to write about that, too!