Harry Potter 6

Well made. Skipped some things in the book.

Good or bad, a Harry Potter movie cannot be missed by me.

Yes, it did take 40 mins to find parking and I waited in a line for 1 and half hours to get a good seat.

But with good friends along, no pain, only fun.

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

Today was the first day of the conference. Now, I have started getting the feeling that I am an AI researcher. Until now I was always in doubt whether my work was good enough and was it really AI-ish enough. Spending a day among so many researchers (1200) from all over the world is overwhelming. The thought that people are attacking these problem daily in so many different places is surreal.

The talks were great. I have only been to one more scientific conference before, but I can tell that the works being presented here are good contributions.

But the day ended with honoring two achievers in AI, Andrew Ng and Carlos Guestrin. I have seen geniuses being depicted in movies but to see them speak in real was great. Then was the AI video contest. It was like a party.

Yes, there can be a sense of purpose in research.