This book summarizes the organized competitions held during the first NIPS competition track. It provides both theory and applications of hot topics in machine learning, such as adversarial learning, conversational intelligence, and deep reinforcement learning. Rigorous competition evaluation was based on the quality of data, problem interest and impact, promoting the design of new models, and a proper schedule and management procedure. This book contains the chapters from organizers on competition design and from top-ranked participants on their proposed solutions for the five accepted competitions: The Conversational Intelligence Challenge, Classifying Clinically Actionable Genetic Mutations, Learning to Run, Human-Computer Question Answering Competition, and Adversarial Attacks and Defenses.

The funeral culture has undergone a radical change in recent years. He expresses himself a. in a differentiation of the ways of burial and in a pluralization of attitudes to questions of life and death. Life-world research makes an indispensable contribution - also for church activities - to understanding the change process in our society and the life-specific religious attitudes of people. The book is divided into two parts: In the first part, essential aspects of church funeral activities are reflected and the change in the funeral culture is placed in different scientific horizons. The second part contains a manual that offers concrete suggestions for the organization of an evangelical funeral service for each of the ten Sinus milieus and also takes the preparatory and subsequent steps into consideration. The aim of the book is to provide practical impulses for milieu-sensitive communication of the gospel in the context of the burial.