Frohen Nikolaus! . December 6 is the day you celebrate Santa Claus in Germany. I had just driven home from Montreal when I got this great picture from my good friends Nadja and Gaya in Munich

I called them right back Because I happen to be wearing my Santa hat too !

and they took me on a tour of the work Christmas party and I got to say hi to a lot of my old friends

It was fun being up in Montreal and fun being home… What great image from this morning’s breakfast… About the Canadian national dish poutine

OK jumping in the bathtub… (I guess you didn’t need to know that)

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Woke up in my shelf at the top of our nerdbnb

Showered and dressed in 5 min then headed to the place du Congress with Ben and Kristian

spent the day watching demos, watching talks and. Reading posters

Here is a robot feeding me celery

Movie

I loved just reading the poster titles ! Read them. .. you’ll like them

Lots of math here.

now time for sleep

More tomorrow

Nite all, nite Sam

-me

Really fascinating day at the NEURIPS conference. So much energy and so many Dea’s . There are more than 100000 people here , all passionate about artificial intelligence.

Lots of good talks, demos and posters

Here’s my friend Casey showing some of ibms demos

I decided to set up my own demo station with the ceremony app that va and i have been working on. We quickly had a nice crowd

The posters were cool. Several themes were clear . Generative adversarial networks Gans) we’re everywhere . People were synthesizing all sorts of images and movies. It will get harder and harder to know what’s real !

Around 5 i met my old friend George . We went to a Lebanese place called sumac that Deb has taken us before.

It was so good catching. up with geor

Hey it’s bens mom !

Then a great Japanese meal

M

Ok gotta sleep.. more tomorrow !

– nite all , night all

– me

I was settling in for a week at home when my plans changed out from under me. A ticket opened up for neurips, one of the worlds biggest AI conferences. It’s being held in Montreal this year..so it’s too close to miss.

I drove up and met my friends for a late dinner. It was a surprise to both them and me

I’m sleeping in an Airbnb with all the folks from the Cambridge lab. I found a spot on the way to the roof.

Let’s see if I can sleep

Nite all, nite Sam

-me