Friday, April 17, 2009

Open for business

Hi all,

I think this will be the easiest way to keep track of the reading group stuff as suggested. Any time one of us will present a paper, he or she should post a message here, with something along the lines of:

Next reading group will take place on:

[insert date here]

Presented by:

[insert name here]

Paper to read:

[insert link here]

I suppose everyone has a Google account, and if not, create one and become the slaves of our all-knowing master!

As discussed today at lunch, first reading group is on Nikhil! (sorry man, you should have come with us to lunch!)

P.S. Colour theme dedicated to Paco
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6 comments:

  1. jibielApril 17, 2009 at 8:29 PM

    Cool! Thanks for setting up this blog. I love the color! What about adding some white spots to the background:)?

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  2. HariApril 21, 2009 at 1:58 PM

    Nice way to keep track of the reading group. Although, i would have preferred a simple user name and password (instead of using the *gmail account*)

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  3. NikhilApril 22, 2009 at 11:43 AM

    hmm...so it looks like I am supposed to present the next paper. However, I wouldn't be able to do it next week as I am on vacation from Apr 29-May 1. Sorry for this. But for the following week (May 5-8), we can discuss some paper on reinforcement learning if people are interested. Please suggest some paper if you already know some good paper for an introduction to this topic. Otherwise, I will myself try to find an interesting paper.

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  4. kateApril 22, 2009 at 5:14 PM

    cool, thanks radu. did we want to continue with the 'machine learning themes' proposed for the next few months of reading group and see how it goes? if we set up a page where everyone proposes themes and interesting papers for each it may be useful... or do people prefer to just pick 'random' papers to discuss?

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  5. hayleyApril 23, 2009 at 4:11 PM

    i think going for the themes is a good idea.
    why don't we discuss it at the end of nikhil's reading group next time?

    in the meantime, i'll book 405 for 8th May at 2pm.

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  6. NikhilMay 4, 2009 at 1:07 AM

    Sorry, I couldn't find a short introduction to reinforcement learning. Instead, we could discuss the interesting problem of internet advertising. Here is what I propose:
    "Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second-Price Auction:
    Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords"

    Link: http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/ostrovsky/papers/gsp.pdf

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