[Discussion] Should I go to ICML and present my paper?

I finished my Ph.D. a year ago. Left academia and went to be a data scientist at a tech company. I like it, but still thinking about moving to a more research position somehow in the future. Not sure though.

Anyway, an unfinished work of mine got picked by a friend which finished it and applied to ICML. It got accepted (yay!).

I now wonder - beside the fact that I find conferences fun, is there an actual benefit in …

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