FAQ

When will presentation PDFs be available?

Presentation PDFs will be available in the program at 7AM (PDT) on the day they are presented.

Note: Slide updates occur and are provides ASAP.

When do presentations begin?

Live presentations begin at the times shown in the program. All program presentation times are PDT (UTC-7).

Will the presentations be recorded? If so, when will the recordings be available?

Live presentations will be recorded and available for replay shortly after each session concludes. Until these presentations are made generally available to the public, the stream recordings will remain available to you using your conference credentials. The recorded videos are accessible in a playlist linked at the top of the tutorial and conference pages. The talks are available in session long segments. You will need to scan to find the start of an individual talk.

When will the recordings and slides be available to the general public?

At the end of the year (early December), we will post the videos to YouTube and the slides to https://hotchips.org just as we have done in the past. Until then the conference site will remain available for viewing slides and replay for registered conference attendees.

My password lets me access the pdfs, but not the video-stream. What do I do?

The credential management for PDFs and videos are different. You should have received an email entitled “Your credentials for Hot Chips…” with them.

I want to download all of the PDFs at once!

After the conference, we will have the full “proceedings” available to download as a single zip file. During the conference, individual presentation PDFs are available and kept updated as changes come in.

My video doesn’t work. Help!

Follow these standard debugging steps:

  1. Make sure you have correct stream with the correct password. (Check your email entitled “Your credentials for Hot Chips…”)
  2. Reload the page
  3. View the video at the source (not embedded in Hot Chips website)
  4. Close the tab. Reset your videostreamingprovider cookies, cache, restart the browser & reauthorize
  5. Turn off your VPN
  6. Try using a different browser (repeating these steps).
  7. Check your local internet (download) speed
  8. Advanced Users Only: Reset your network access card / assume something is cached improperly & VPN elsewhere / …

Note:

  • You’ll get infinite buffering if your browser thinks it’s authorized but the server disagrees and doesn’t serve video. You need to get to the challenge prompt again
  • Scrolling with the mouse wheel adjusts the volume (fix most local volume issues)
  • Most of these steps are designed to force the video player to start from scratch, which fixes 90% of issues