So much Japanese!
I’m watching a presentation by one of my mentors A Nakano. I’ve seen him give similar presentations. The slides are in English, but he is presenting it in Japanese.
I seem to have no knack for Japanese. I can pronounce Chinese pretty well since I took a couple semesters in college, but that is no help here.
It’s nice to see a group in Japan take cues from our computational science workshop for underrepresented groups and turn it into their own. They are teaching a lot more system administration stuff. Maybe I said that already.
Also it’s neat that the computer code, etc doesn’t need translation. Sometimes they throw in Japanese characters in strings, but the config files and source code are still in the stunted English of computerese.
Heading to Yokohama tomorrow. More good times around the corner.