[suddensleep]

I was at NeurIPS last year, and I can actually confirm that the line to see Flo-Rida went around the block. It's unclear to me whether or not there was genuine interest in the performance, but there was certainly interest in the event.

Say what you will about the world's biggest nerds, but irony, whether purposeful or inexplicably accidental, is not lost on them.

Ninja Edit: New conference name :)

[screye]

> NeurIPS

That was fast.

I was all for a name change from a juvenile pun, but "NeurIPS" is hilariously bad. It confirms, that everyone but the press, continues calling it NIPS.

> line to see Flo-Rida went around the block

I mean, if it was a free (already paid for) concert, then I would go for it too.

[eanzenberg]

Not just free concert but free food and booze.

BTW the whole renaming of NIPS to NeurIPS could be an episode of SV, where a board of directors are all offended by names of body parts!

[freeone3000]

"So tell me, what's wrong with the Proceedings of Neural Information Systems again?"

[r00fus]

Let's just ignore the racial epithet part shall we?

[titanomachy]

"Nip" used to be a somewhat common perjorative term for Japanese (i.e. Nipponese; the Japanese word for Japan is Nippon). In case anyone else was confused by this comment.

[eanzenberg]

I've never heard it used in this context, but I guess people can get offended by pretty much anything these days.

[mikeash]

It’s real but old timey. Unless you’re quite a bit older than the HN average, you probably wouldn’t have heard it. That, of course, doesn’t mean it’s ok.

[JetSpiegel]

Or you read Cryptonomicon.