Living At The Polar CircleSince 2022, when I got invited for a keynote talk at a Deep Learning school, I have been visiting...
Conferences Good And Bad, In A Profit-Driven SocietyNowadays researchers and scholars of all ages and specialization find themselves struggling with...
USERN: 10 Years Of Non-Profit Action Supporting Science Education And ResearchThe 10th congress of the USERN organization was held on November 8-10 in Campinas, Brazil. Some...
Baby Steps In The Reinforcement Learning WorldI am moving some baby steps in the direction of Reinforcement Learning (RL) these days. In machine...



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Patrick Draper is a graduate student in physics at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab. He is a native of Illinois and lives in Hyde Park, Chicago with his wife Karen and parrot Felix, to whom he is grateful for their love, patience, and correcting his sign errors. He is a supporter of the international effort to put a muon collider on Mars, and is waiting for NASA to return his phone calls.



