For various definitions of “music”.
Month: September 2012
Keitai Pics Backlog: At Summer’s End
Local Tokyo Fauna
I know the following claim might come off as slightly suspicious, posted at 1:34am and freshly back from drinking in Shinjuku, but… I just saw a tanuki casually crossing the boulevard, two blocks from our house. A freaking tanuki. In the middle of Tokyo.
I would have chalked it up to alcohol and a very weird-looking cat, but the taxi driver was even more categorical that the thing was neither an itachi nor a cat, but indeed a tanuki.
Next week: wild boars in our courtyard.
Machine Learning Summer School 2012 in Kyoto
Freshly back from two weeks in Kyoto where I attended a Machine Learning Summer School organised at Kyoto University. The whole event was impeccably organised and featured some of the biggest names in the field lecturing on fundamental aspects of machine learning: two highly productive weeks leaving barely enough time in the evening to catch up with friends and enjoy life in my former hometown…
A few random thoughts and observations:
Geekwear
You think your technical conferences are full of nerdy people wearing geeky t-shirts? Mine have people wearing straight-up math theorems.
