I enjoyed attending NIPS this year, with several things interesting me. For the conference itself: Peter Welinder, Steve Branson, Serge Belongie, and Pietro Perona, The Multidimensional Wisdom of Crowds. This paper is about using mechanical turk to get label information, with results superior to a majority vote approach. David McAllester, Tamir Hazan, and Joseph Keshet Direct Loss Minimization for