Stephen Porter

Japan 2019: Tachikawa

March 16, 2019
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Keisuke Honda, our host, took us to a great seafood restaurant in Tachikawa. I forgot to get the name, but it was fantastic.

The raw baby squids were surprisingly tasty

Apparently you’re supposed to eat the entire raw prawn, including the brains
So I ate it

Working on our topic model paper at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Presenting our Finland performance funding paper
Paul studies the physical random number generators in ISM’s computer museum
Paul is impressed with ISM’s water-cooled supercomputers
ISM shares a building with the National Institute of Polar Research
Memorial to dogs that died on Japanese polar expeditions
If you’re ever in Tachikawa, this is the place for dinner: Tamaya Kitchen

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Professor and quant guy. Libertarian turned populist Republican. Trying to learn Japanese and play Spanish Baroque music on the ukulele.

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