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Slideshows 📓 by Naereen @ GitHub

This repository hosts some slides for talks I gave in the last years (since 2016), covering various subjects, including programming/code, training and teaching, research (at conferences and my PhD defense)...

About tools

• At first, this repository was only here to host some small experiments, for me to learn how to use the remark.js slideshow tools correctly;
• But I discovered that pandoc can be used to create PDF Beamer slides, written easily in Markdown, and I love it now ❤️! My pandoc/beamer template is working well, I love it.
• And I am passionate about open-source, and really fond of Markdown, I am trying to publish here all the slides of the talks I gave recently (from July 2017).
• (OLD) I also really like Marp, and have written this small CSS file to customize it (using Palatino & Fira Code fonts).

About tools in 2021

• (NEW) I'm less fan of the new Marp app , and have written this small CSS file to customize it (using Palatino & Fira Code fonts), as well as bash aliases marp2pdf and marp2html.
• (NEW) I LOVE jupyter notebooks, and I use the RISE extension regularly to produce slideshows from live Jupyter notebooks (see RISE on GitHub). See this example (in French), presented at a conference in February 2020. It uses reveal.js, which is honestly better than remarkjs or Marp...

See also my SpeakerDesk profile, where I also shared all my previous slides, and I will keep sharing the new ones.

Past slides

• For my previous research internships : « Méthodes de volumes finis sur carte graphique nVidia pour Euler compressible » (in French, fluid mechanics, PDE, and C/CUDA programming) L3 (2012), « Modularité pour les programmes de robots » (in French, formal logic), M1 (2013), « Theoretical study of steerable homogeneous operators » (in English), M2 (2016).
• And for my M.Sc. (MVA) in 2015-16, for some research projects : Graphs in Machine-Learning (2015), Sparsity and Compressed Sensing (2015), Reinforcement Learning (2015), Modeling in Neuro-Science (2016).

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How to read these documents?

1. PDF on my website

PDF versions are not available on the Git repository, but on they are my website.

• July 2016: Python Introduction and Demo at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland).
• February 2017 : "Mastering Markdown and MediaWiki" training (CentraleSupélec Rennes).
• May 2017 : 6 month PhD summary for my "CSID Comitee" (CentraleSupélec Rennes) (16:9 ?).
• June 2017 : Presentation of the ADDI Association (PhD Student Day 2017 in Rennes) (16:9 ?).
• September 2017 : Presentation of our CrownCom conference article (Lisboa, Portugal) (16:9 ?).
• November 2017 : "Git and Open Source Your Simulation Code" training session (CentraleSupélec Rennes) (16:9 ?).
• November 2017 : 1 year of PhD summary, presentation at the SCEE team seminar (CentraleSupélec Rennes) (16:9 ?).
• December 2017 : Presentation of our ALT 2018 article at SequeL team seminar (Inria Lille) (16:9 ?).
• January 2018 : Same presentation at the ENSAI "brown-bag" seminar (Rennes).
• January 2018 : "Python introduction for MATLAB users" training session (CentraleSupélec Rennes) (16:9 ?).
• March 2018 : "Introduction to Jupyter notebooks" training session (CentraleSupélec Rennes) (16:9 ?).
• April 2018 : "Multi-Player Bandits Models Revisited", talk at the ALT 2018 conference (16:9 ?), for this paper.
• April 2018 : "Aggregation of Multi-Armed Bandits Learning Algorithms for Opportunistic Spectrum Access", talk at the IEEE WCNC 2018 conference (16:9 ?), for this paper.
• May 2018 : summary for half of my PhD, the "CSID Comitee" (CentraleSupélec Rennes) (16:9 ?).
• June 2018 : Julia my new computing friend? An introduction for MATLAB users, at IETR seminar 2018, in collaboration with Pierre Haessig (see also here).
• October 2018 : "Looking for and Organizing your Bibliographic References" training session (CentraleSupélec Rennes) (16:9 ?).
• October 2018 : "Multi-Player Bandits Revisited", seminar at CMAP laboratory at École Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) (16:9 ?), for this paper.
• December 2018 : "5 useful tools as a Christmas gift", traning session (CentraleSupélec Rennes) (16:9 ?), in collaboration with Bastien Trotobas, Nabil Zaraneh and Pierre Haessig.
• April 2019 : "GNU Radio Implementation of Multi-Armed bandits Learning for Internet-of-things Networks", talk at the IEEE WCNC 2019 conference (16:9 ?), for this paper.
• April 2019 : "Upper-Confidence Bound for Channel Selection in LPWA Networks with Retransmissions", talk at the MoTION Workshop at IEEE WCNC 2019 conference (16:9 ?), for this paper.
• May 2019 : slides for the oral presentation given to apply for a teaching-and-research position in Computer Science at ENS de Rennes (29-05-2019) (16:9 ?), for this paper.
• June 2019 : "The Bernoulli Generalized Likelihood Ratio test (B-GLR) for Non-Stationary Multi-Armed Bandits", talk at the monthly research seminar at the PANAMA team, at IRISA lab in Rennes (16:9 ?), for this paper.
• August 2019 : "The Bernoulli Generalized Likelihood Ratio test (B-GLR) for Non-Stationary Multi-Armed Bandits", talk at the GRETSI conference, in Lille (in French), for this paper.
• September 2019 : "Introduction to Multi-Armed Bandits and Reinforcement Learning", for this Training School in Paris.
• November 2019 : oral defense of my PhD thesis, "Multi-players Bandit Algorithms for Internet of Things Networks", see also my PhD thesis.
• August 2020 : presentation of the Master degree I'm in charge of at ENS Rennes (prépa agrég maths option informatique).

▶️ 2. View the slides on-line as HTML pages ?

These versions are experimental and should not be used. Hic sunt dracones!

• Example: template.
• 2016_07__Python_demo_at_EPFL.
• 2017_02__Markdown_and_MediaWiki_primer_at_Supelec.
• 2017_05__CSID_PhD_comitee_at_CentraleSupelec.
• 2017_06__Presentation_of_ADDI_Association.
• 2017_09__Presentation_article_CrownCom_Conference (still ugly, prefer the PDF).
• 2017_11__Git_and_open-source_your_simulation_code__at_Supelec.
• 2017_11__Presentation_Supelec_SCEE_Seminar.
• 2017_12__Presentation_Inria_Lille_SequeL_Seminar.
• 2018_01__Python_introduction_for_MATLAB_users__at_Supelec.
• 2018_03__Jupyter_notebooks_are_awesome__GouTP_at_Supelec.
• 2018_06__Julia_my_new_optimization_friend__introduction_for_MATLAB_users__at_IETR_seminar.
• 2018_10__Looking_for_and_organizing_your_bibliographic_references__GouTP_at_CentraleSupelec.
• 2018_10__Seminaire_CMAP__Multi-Player_Bandits__Theory_Applications_and_Simulations.
• 2018_12__Four_useful_and_various_tools_as_a_Christmas_gift__GouTP_at_CentraleSupelec.
• 2019_04__Presentation_IEEE_WCNC__Demo_ICT_2018.
• 2019_04__Presentation_IEEE_WCNC__MoTION_Workshop.
• For other slides, if I forgot one, use this URL: https://Naereen.GitHub.io/slides/NAME_OF_THE_SLIDE/slides.html.

Note: I have stopped writing these web versions from March 2018, I saw that nobody every visited the previous ones and they appear useless. Tell me if you want them?

🔄 3. View the slides locally ?

• You can also clone this repository, and browse locally the slides.
• For some slides, they are not working as independent HTML files, so I switched to reveal-md: simply use make in the sub-folder and it will open the slides in a browser (the npm package reveal-md is required, though...)

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💁 More information?

• More information about pandoc: on github.com/jgm/pandoc.
• More information about remarkjs: on github.com/gnab/remark.
• More information about reveal.js: on github.com/hakimel/reveal.js.
• More information about reveal-md: on github.com/webpro/reveal-md.
• More information about Markdown: on commonmark.org.

📜 License ?

All the slideshows in this repository are published under the terms of the MIT License (file LICENSE.txt). © Lilian Besson, 2016-19.

The logos and images are the properties of their respective authors (for instance, ENS Paris Saclay, EPFL, CentraleSupélec, IETR, etc).