on being narrow
Dec. 9th, 2009 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslNIPS is so broad overwhelming that I need some way to stay sane.
I could have spent Monday's poster session (from 7:30pm to midnight!) just looking at papers about two-sample tests (But that would be a bit extreme).
So as a matter of policy, I've been avoiding papers about:
* reinforcement learning
* vision
... which essentially means that I've been looking at the problems that statisticians care about.
It's a blacklist policy, because a whitelist policy would necessarily be more narrow-minded.
I am distinctly noticing a lack of papers about biology.
I could have spent Monday's poster session (from 7:30pm to midnight!) just looking at papers about two-sample tests (But that would be a bit extreme).
So as a matter of policy, I've been avoiding papers about:
* reinforcement learning
* vision
... which essentially means that I've been looking at the problems that statisticians care about.
It's a blacklist policy, because a whitelist policy would necessarily be more narrow-minded.
I am distinctly noticing a lack of papers about biology.