I was selected to attend the Machine Learning Summer School in Reykjavik (April 25–May 4, 2014) and received a travel grant. I presented a poster on musical pitch prediction with neural networks.
Particularly valuable tutorials: Machine Learning and HCI (Roderick Murray-Smith), Introduction to ML (Neil Lawrence), Deep Learning (Yoshua Bengio). The reinforcement learning content was especially interesting — I could see potential applications in my music modelling work.
Outside the summer school: the Golden Circle Tour, a hike up Mount Esjan, and a last-minute trip to the Blue Lagoon before flying home. Reykjavik is one of the most unique places I’ve visited.
