I was lately at the Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) which took place this year in Tübingen :). In case you are not sure what machine learning means, well, basically it can be seen as a part of artificial intelligence. The goal that the computer is able to “learn” from given data (e.g., recognize faces in images from a given set of face training images). And at the summer school we had during two weeks various courses about this subject. It really was great, good courses, a very good organization, and a lot of great people to meet. At the last evening Frank (on piano) and me (vocals) performed the song “Easy Like Sunday Morning”. Our performance can be found online, amongst the videos from all lectures :). Enjoy.

June 21 is “la Fete de la musique” (World Music Day, see also the corresponding wikipedia article). On this day everybody is officially allowed to make music (the only day in the year without any noise restriction!) .. simply descend your instrument, your amplification and make music. We also did this spontaneously with our “Trio a la Casa++”. We come together once in a while in my apartment and jam. It consists of Nicolas (drums) and Jean-Baptiste (double bass). The “++” indicates that we actually were more than three: Fano (saxophone), Yves (guitar), and “the neighbor” (guitar). The people seemed to be very content with our performance (about 3 hours), an improvised mix of jazz, pop, and rock. The neighbor a few floors above us joined us spontaneously through his window playing a guitar solo, than descending to join us also physically in the street. Some pictures that should give you an impression of that nice are online in the gallery .. thanks a lot to Caroline for taking theses marvelous pictures 🙂 !!!