[HN Gopher] !!Con 2020 Livestream [video]
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!!Con 2020 Livestream [video]
Author : revx
Score : 120 points
Date : 2020-05-10 14:23 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (bangbangcon.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (bangbangcon.com)
| wrnr wrote:
| Interesting content, NNs trained for poetry was interesting,
| would love to see it for rap music and near rhymes
| revx wrote:
| Thanks! We've had Allison Parrish on a few times, here's her
| talk from last year on spelling words using NNs:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bykvo3Ww_1k
| lowdose wrote:
| Yeah her work is awesome, even her github repo's work plug &
| play out of the box!
| mmastrac wrote:
| The coolest thing about !!Con (other than the amazing talks) is
| the blinded talk submission process. Talks are purely evaluated
| on content, not speaker nor the speaker's attributes in any way.
| revx wrote:
| Thanks! If I may link my own blog, we have a writeup of our
| selection process here: https://organicdonut.com/2018/03/the-
| con-talk-anonymization-...
| mmastrac wrote:
| Thanks for that link. I have not had an opportunity to read
| the detail on this (only that it _was_ anonymized). I hope
| this becomes a model for all conferences.
| ValentineC wrote:
| > _Talks are purely evaluated on content, not speaker nor the
| speaker 's attributes in any way._
|
| Personally, I think one problem with evaluating talks purely on
| written proposals is that the process misses out on whether a
| submitter is able to attract the audience's attention, and to
| convey their points within the allocated time.
|
| Written proposals can be heavily edited; talks on stage
| (especially if there isn't a rehearsal beforehand -- most
| conferences wouldn't have the resources to do this) can't.
| ptty56 wrote:
| Will there be recordings of the lifestream somewhere to dl later?
| revx wrote:
| Yes! :)
|
| They're on the Confreaks youtube channel, and we'll release
| individual talk videos a few weeks from now.
| revx wrote:
| !!Con (pronounced "bang bang con") 2020 is two days of ten-minute
| talks (with lots of breaks, of course!) to celebrate the joyous,
| exciting, and surprising moments in computing.
|
| This is our 7th year and our first time running it virtually.
| Happy to answer any questions about the conference. We'll also be
| publishing our notes about how we ran a virtual conference
| afterward.
|
| Hope you enjoy!
| sp332 wrote:
| Is the Discord channel invite-only? The speakers mention it a
| lot but I didn't see a link anywhere.
| revx wrote:
| Yes, sorry! We sold tickets to that earlier this year.
|
| If you're interested in attending future !!Cons, sign up for
| our mailing list (on our website) and we'll let you know when
| tickets go on sale.
| airstrike wrote:
| You're sold out of virtual tickets?
| revx wrote:
| yes, we limited the number of people in the discord so we
| could make sure that we could keep up with moderation and
| tshirts and stuff. But the livestream was available
| online for free :)
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