Mikio L. Braun

ML and AI expert

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At a conference, people accuse me of name-dropping. I find it very refreshing that (a) this practice hasn't made it to the mainstream and (b) most people don't even know all those people you'd habitually name-drop in academia.
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For reference, proper name-dropping has three stages: (1) just mentioning someone so you show you know about them, (2) telling a story about them, (3) telling a personal story (ideally that recently happened).
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For example: (1) Yeah, Schmidhuber did that before. (2) You've seen this video where Schmidhuber constantly interrupts the speaker to say he invented it before? (3) I once had dinner with Schmidhuber while at NeurIPS and he really liked the fishburger (true story!)
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