Survival Guide for Retreats

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Survival Guide for Retreats

• AP, Dan, Ion, Karthik, Lakshmi, Weidong

Author names in alphabetical order of first
names
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Or How to sleep during talks

• We want to solve relevant problems!
• Hmm, but we also want hard problems
• Addendum And not get spotted in the process
• This is hard, as many people would testify ?

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Preliminary Solution

• Eyes closed does not imply being asleep
• after all, one could be meditating, hmm!
• and one can even prove that by asking questions
• Eg.What is the impact of the bottleneck on
  scalability? or Can you be more precise about
  your future work?
• Slides available online (Thanks to weidong!)
• Caveats
• Speaker may not go to the last slide
• Hopefully, you are not waking up at the next
  session

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But

• If a problem has no solution, it may not be a
  problem, but a fact, not to be solved, but to be
  coped with over time Peress Law
• Hence
• No more talks in future retreats!

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Experimental Evaluation

• Based on experiments performed yesterday and
  today
• Er
• Ok ok, not now.

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Future Work

• Is this scalable?
• What if everyone falls asleep?
• Compare selfish cooperative strategies (Game
  theory)
• How many people have to be awake on at any point?
• Is this robust?
• Can SLT help?
• How far from optimal solutions are we?
• How to generalize
• For conferences in general?

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