I had an incredibly rich and very day. Bazillion work calls wrapped around a couple of community things.

The first community thing was a coaching session for my friends at Füse… A local marketing corporation. I helped a small team in brainstorming around their corporate culture. It turned into something very fun.

I’ve been park myself in a coffee house for about four hours downtown Burlington Inn working took calls… I had pizza for lunch

2 o’clock I went to UVM to help me judging of the annual computer science research projects… It was really fun interviewing the students. Saw lots of my friends from the faculty and student body there. And ate more pizza

Then drove home to pick up Diane… She was here with 10-year-old Finn our friend who beat me at pool… Then we went in to the generator Christmas bazaar… It was really fun. Our friends from Papa’s porch were playing

There was also an art show at the gallery next-door…

I ran into some friends from global foundries… One of them was one of the artists.

Finally we ended up at Pizza 44 for the closing dinner at Füse. My friend Ryan was doing the DJ stuff

And they had pizza… Tons of it… A different pizza delivery every hour. They made us feel so welcome finally we ended up at Pizza 44 for the closing dinner at Füse. My friend Ryan was doing the DJ stuff

And they had pizza… Tons of it… A different pizza delivery every hour. They made us feel so welcome

Now we’re home… I don’t think I need to eat any more pizza for the whole day

Night all, night Sam

– me

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