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ThisIsMyStonerAcount OP t1_iybqgfx wrote

Reply to comment by Mefaso in [D] I'm at NeurIPS, AMA by ThisIsMyStonerAcount

On the plus-side, the Mug looks nicer than the 2019 ones. On the negative side, a lot of the usual faces are missing. E.g. haven't seen Yoshua Bengio, or Neil Lawrence, or LeCun, or Schmidhuber, or Schoelkopf, Ilya Sutskever or Ian Goodfellow or lots of other folk. Not that there aren't a ton of brilliant people regardless, but it's kind of weird (might have just missed some of them in the crowd, though).

Poster sessions are crowded like 2019, but it empties out fairly quickly (e.g. 1 hour after the start of the session there's noticable less people). No-one's social distancing and <30% of people wore masks.

No Sperbank models this year. Nvidia is also missing, which was a bit more unexpected.

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RobbinDeBank t1_iybsrv3 wrote

The what models?

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ThisIsMyStonerAcount OP t1_iybtxn1 wrote

I might be misremembering, but didn't Sperbank have some people at their booth whose job seemed to consist purely of being eye candy?

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RobbinDeBank t1_iybxpq5 wrote

Well I’m pretty new to the field so Idk. Just surprised to know that

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Mefaso t1_iyckce7 wrote

Apparently their parties also had strippers, but you had to know Russians to get in.

This is all just second hand though

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