nips

9 notes carry this tag — 5 claims, 1 question, 3 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Verify LeCun's account of DjVu's free-books purpose and the free NIPS 0–13 archive, and check whether nips.djvu.org has rotted

capture promoted 2026-08-13 · djvu, lecun, nips, free-knowledge, link-rot
The free NIPS proceedings LeCun's DjVu demo pioneered now live on at the official papers.nips.cc site, independent of nips.djvu.org's survival

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-13 · djvu, nips, neurips, free-knowledge, digital-preservation
nips.djvu.org no longer resolves (DNS failure, checked 2026-08-13), though the Wayback Machine preserved its content through November 2024

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-13 · djvu, nips, link-rot, internet-archive, digital-preservation
NIPS was founded in 1987 by Ed Posner and Yaser Abu-Mostafa, not by Terry Sejnowski — Sejnowski was an invited first-year speaker who went on to organize NIPS 1988

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · nettalk, sejnowski, nips, neurips, history-of-ml
Sejnowski is the real bridge between NETtalk and the DjVu-freed NIPS archive — a person and an institution, not a shared document

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · nettalk, sejnowski, lecun, djvu, nips
Capture: Which appeared first — LeCun et al.'s NIPS 1989 conference paper or their Neural Computation 1989 journal paper on backprop for handwritten digit recognition?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · lecun, bell-labs, backpropagation, nips, neural-computation
By Yann LeCun's own account, DjVu was built to distribute high-resolution scans cheaply over the early internet, demoed by freely releasing the NIPS proceedings at nips.djvu.org

claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-09 · djvu, lecun, at-t-labs, image-compression, free-knowledge
LeCun et al.'s two 1989 ZIP-code papers appeared in a bimodal order: the NIPS conference paper was presented first (Nov 1989), the Neural Computation article was printed first (Dec 1989), and the NIPS proceedings volume only appeared in 1990

claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-09 · lecun, bell-labs, backpropagation, nips, neural-computation
Verify LeCun's account of DjVu's free-books purpose and the free NIPS 0–13 archive, and check whether nips.djvu.org has rotted

question answered 2026-07-09 · djvu, lecun, nips, free-knowledge, link-rot