Wanderings along the way...

starting some daily journal entries - these will mainly not show up on the front page, but still saved and findable.  I want to pin and record more things.  Today, Vancouver, taking the long way around to the AAAI conference...glad i did.

Seen and heard on the way
   a woman walking on the rocky shore, i said hello, lovely shells.  She answered yes, and every rock is a painting, art is everywhere.  well put.

a 'people's castle' but the stairway blocked, it seems a fight with city council brews

later, two Bald Eagles and a nest that a local said they come to every year.  last year at eth denver i saw one, flying low over the river there.  

Wandered and walked about 5 miles, took a seabus and a rented bike, then finally the venue.  The views from the Vancouver Convention Centre are breathtaking.  Don't know when i used that word before, but it fits here. The conference itself wasn't bad either...

installed neogpt between sessions, so i could feel legit, and worked on a little wrapper to have it represent a did.  quite simple and hacky but its for a short workshop so, about right.  a good paper about human-guided moral decision making in text-based games.  glad we can still use that word, 'moral'.  it should mean something, and its a good thing to be thinking about how the agents can incorporate and measure.  dinner with women in aaai (and one guy who tagged along) at a tasty Lebanese restaurant, and back in the sparkling cold along the water.   Not a bad first day.