Today I met with yet another possible collaborator. A former graduate student of my Chilean collaborators is now doing a PhD in natural language processing at Universidad Federal de ABC in São Paulo, Brazil. First, 'ABC'?! What is up with that as the name of a university? Turns out this refers to a region of São Paulo and the university is located there. 'ABC' is a popular acronym for three subregions, one starting with 'A', one with 'B' and one with 'C'. The acronym is so widely used, that it became attached to the university name.
Anyway, I was introduced by one of the other graduate students, and we set up a zoom meeting today. We had a wide-ranging discussion about possible collaborations and generate 3 areas for further discussion. The meeting was about an hour and a lot of fun. Our task now is to look over the 3 ideas and meet again in 2 weeks to see where we want to go with them.
Also, I was invited to go to São Paulo for a visit. Hmm...
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There is now Halloween candy at our local supermarket.
Not one kind that anyone from the US would recognize, but I'm sure we all recognize the vibe.
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It was a gray, rainy day today, so the obligatory sunset photo is just a cloud photo,
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