2020 NLP wish lists, HuggingFace fastai, NeurIPS 2019, GPT-2 things, Machine Learning Interviews

NeurIPS 2019 was with around 13,000 attendees the largest ML conference of the year. The NeurIPS 2019 Program Chairs did a fantastic analysis of the reviewing process. NeurIPS has no free-loader problem: Most of the authors of submitted papers participate in reviewing. It is still unclear how to filter papers before the full review. Review quality (as measured by length) is not lower compared to smaller conferences.