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Serial VS Parallel

Posted in Fun, Musing, Research, tagged , , on 21 February 2012| Leave a Comment »

A serial algorithm is only a simplified version of a latent parallel algorithm.

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On reporting acceptance rates

Posted in Musing, Research, tagged , on 16 February 2012| Leave a Comment »

Just to be clear, this is my own biased opinion on the issue.

To people that report acceptance rates in their publication list:

  • Science is not a race.
  • Published papers are not awards.
  • Conferences are not exclusive clubs.

If you really need to boast, at least do it with more taste, please.
Acceptance rate is just awkward.

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T.Rex promotional tour

Posted in PhD, Research, Travel, tagged , , , on 5 February 2012| Leave a Comment »

I will be traveling to USA for the WSDM’12 conference to present our work on news recommendation: “From Chatter to Headlines: Harnessing the Real-Time Web for Personalized News Recommendation”. T.Rex (Twitter based RECommendation System) blends signals from social circles, personal interests and popularity to learn a personalized ranking function for online news articles. A more detailed explanation will follow as an invited post on another blog.
At WSDM I will be giving a 4 minutes spotlight presentation and then I will explain the details in a long poster session.

Then, I will fly to California to present T.Rex at the annual Yahoo! Labs meeting: Science Week. There I will have a 10 minutes slot in a workshop about news experiments and a 1 minute presentation in a fun competition called “60 seconds of science”.

It’s going to be challenging to present the same topic in so many different formats!

 

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AI & ML Classes

Posted in Research, tagged , , , , on 23 December 2011| Leave a Comment »

Finally over, the AI and ML Stanford classes finished last week.

The courses were a really interesting experience, and I think I learned a lot from them.
Apart from the technical content, which is very useful, I learned things about myself.
For instance, how long I can stick and persevere, how much motivation plays an important role in what I do, how well I can manage my time and how much I can push my limits.

And now, because I am proud of myself:
<boast>
I managed to finish the advanced track in both classes and ended in the top quartile of the final ranking for the AI class!
The ML class had no ranking.
</boast>

Next to come: NLP and PGM, Models and Algorithms.

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