It applies to other conference too, it could help you much if you are going to attend AI/ML conferences

How to attend an ML conference the right way:

ahead of NeurIPS 2025 (30k attendees!) here are ten pro tips:

1. Your main goals:
(i) meet people
(ii) regain excitement about work
(iii) learn things
– in that order.
2. Make a list of papers you like and seek them out at poster sessions. Try to talk to the authors– you can learn much more from them than from a PDF.
3. Pick one workshop and one tutorial that sounds most interesting. Skip the rest.
4. Cold email people you want to meet but haven't. Check Twitter and the accepted papers list. PhD students are especially responsive.
5. Practice a concise pitch of unpublished research you're working on for "what are you interested in rn?". Focus on unanswered questions and exciting directions, *not* papers.
6. Skip the orals. Posters are a higher-bandwidth, more engaging, more invigorating. Orals are a good time to go for a walk or talk in the hallway.
7. Do NOT work on other research in your hotel room. Save mental bandwidth for the conference. (This may seem obvious; you'd be surprised.)
8. Talk to people outside your area. There are many smart people working on niches <10 people understand. Learn about one or two that won't help your own work.
9. Attend one social each night. Don't overthink it or get caught up in status games. They're all fun.
10. Take breaks. You can't go to everything, and conferences consume more energy than a normal workweek

Source

Figure 2.1 relative comparison of mental state in a month

although seeing my calendar and confirming the impending doom feeling is just hormones having play time is oddly comforting

on my way to play with expert players after watching The Queen's Gambit and learning chess on duolingo for a week

Is there someone here who had to renew their passport in Ethiopia? I would like to hear what you did and your experiences?

update: Thank you guys:))

2026 QNS Summer School
A hands-on, interdisciplinary summer experience in Quantum and Nano Science at the Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS), Seoul.

The submission deadline is 11 January 2026.

link

almost forgot how much fun this is

I see a growing interest about qc or maybe it's because I be spamming you about it

anyways this is a space that I created last year around may and it is a resource hub for quantum computing stuffs. If you are interested check it out.

plus I'm a bit more organized content wise

https://news.1rj.ru/str/QArcanee

when more than 40% of the paper I'm reading is just references

I'm writing a new article on what have I learned series😃

this is the content of it mostly.

my deadline is before midnight today:)

If I actually read that book I bought about human anatomy, I would have known what's wrong with her face and fixed it

the lesson: read the books you buy✨

:- https://telegra.ph/Part-1-QECquantum-error-correction-12-13

this was helpful: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11157

ends up to find the email I sent cause I didn't have telegram on my phone and want to save links

growing up I was so bad at making eye contact, I proposed a game with my sister to count the number of people on the street that were staring and to stare back at them till they changed direction and whoever had more number wins. I get really competitive and I get imaginary coins till this day.

moral of the story: stay hydrated✨

after using random reddit guy comment to fix my dad's car

(too much talent atp)

how I will be playing chess

talking about how Jack from titanic shouldn't have died with my mom and she hit me with