CD-R

After about 7 years I decided to move some of my archive on my hard-disk and I realized some interesting facts!

* Dont use ProDisk brand!
* TDK gold CDs are worse than ProDisk!
* If you take care of your CDs, you can expect a long life time (at least more than 7 years!)

It was nice to see my chronological behavior of writing CDs over 7 years :)

Potluck on 5th Floor

It was such a nice international potluck gathering: Canada, Egypt, France, Iran and Italy. I prepared a dessert with fruits and chocolate which was not that bad! :)

* Potluck is a common gathering here that everybody bring something eatable for everyone.

Convocation :)

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NIPS deadline is getting close...

We had two papers for submission. After lots of work, results did not look promising for one of them. So most likely we would not submit it. The other one has a chance although the novel idea of "forgetting by interference" does not look very good. Rich also encouraged me to write a code for another paper. Cosmin told me that his code results in good stuff! Lets see... 8 of June is still far!

Waiting ...

It feels like floating in the air. You are not sure whether you will be here next year or somewhere else. It makes me inefficient, worried, and uncomfortable. I hope this phase passes soon ...