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We hope you are having a good holiday season.
With the Covid pandemic less of a threat, Keiko and I travelled to her favorite city, Bellevue, during the summer. This is their best season - low heat, plenty of greenery and calm blue waters, beautiful flowers everywhere, and we had no problems with bugs or humidity. After returning, I resumed Sunday hiking and swimming, and monthly drives to Southern California. My car is having more frequent trouble, so I rent on those weeks when my car is in repair. Twice have rented a Tesla. It's great on the freeway but too many false alarm quick braking events on crowded streets. So I'm keeping my 17-year-old Prius even though parts fall off every few months and the "Engine Check" lamp is always on but with no error code.
My daughter, Grace, is happily working at Disney Animation in Burbank, and appears in the credits of their 2022 animated movie "Strange World." She did the flames. Last year she was credited in Encanto, which won an Academy Award for best Animated Feature. This photo is taken where the Baldwin Hills Dam broke in 1963, dumping water and mud down the residential streets to Fedco (now Target). The evacuation area was shown on TV which we didn't have then, but we got out in time. For years it was left as a cracked concrete wasteland, but now it's a park with hiking trails and great views. Los Angeles has improved a lot since the 1970s.
At work I'm managing interns and university collaborations but in fact I learn more from them than they learn from me. I feed them training data and enjoy their output, read their well written papers :) One of our subsystems generates explanations of software code by basically creating a machine translation system in which the source language is code, and the target language is English. These transformer-based language models have become scarily powerful! They can also "translate" from text to code, and from text to image. To the left is the "translation" of "Stanford Dish and a Swimming Pool in Bellevue in the style of Monet" (from Dall-E 2)
We hope that your holiday season is happy and comforting.
Ben and Keiko Reaves b.reaves@ieee.org http://brss.us/xmas2022
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