I had planned to attend, but NIPS "sold out" within a couple weeks before I could make arrangements. NIPS growth has been absolutely tremendous. Being unable to register made it impossible for my lab to submit workshop papers. One of my students got a travel award to attend a Women in Machine Learning Workshop, but only the tutorial day was open for booking.<p>Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like next year's venue in Montreal is any bigger based on the statistics I looked up.
For those who haven't seen yet, Intel is hosting a NIPS 2017 party called "Let the Gradient Flo", with Flo Rida performing.<p>Got to be close to peak hype.
If you want to ask questions/add comments to the papers being presented, the Fermat's Library team set up a page for that <a href="http://fermatslibrary.com/nips" rel="nofollow">http://fermatslibrary.com/nips</a>