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May 25, 2005 ( life )
The conference went great. Despite some last-minute gotchas, which we handled without even letting anyone know what had happened! I think all my Ja conference running has jaded me to the chaos of day-of problems, but also taught me the value of back-up sysytems -- every laptop we had there had the presentations queued up, plus 3 burnt CDs of the presentations, we had a backup network hub, power cabling, and a printer. uUnofrtunately, the printer wouldn't work, but we managed.
I worked 28 hours over the past 2 days. I was up at 1am Monday night burning CDs and transferring presentations. Yay, that was fun. Especially when I work up at 5:30 the next morning to get to the conference center and set up...
anyhow. It all went well. Some crazy cool technology presentations, and a good reception afterwards. I ran into a former Barrone dorm-mate who's currently a co-inventor on one of the coolest developments in neural networking and a game that displays it: http://dev.ic2.org/nero_public/index.php?page=description
It's basically applying evolutionary design to neural nets, in real time, to the point that a computer really learns and can come up with novel approaches. It's actually almost scary, some of the demonstrations of its capabilities thus far.
I slept in a bit this morning, but am still a bit zombie-fied by the whole debacle. Luckily it's memorial day weekend coming up, which I plan to use to chill the F out. right now it's looking like rain, but rain prediction in Austin is not a reliable science. I'm not sure I care, one way or the other, as I mainly just need catch-up time anyhow.
Posted by griffjon at May 25, 2005 01:25 PM
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