For the third year running, I was greeted by a weather alert on my arrival in Tokyo, this time for a typhoon like two years ago, and like two years ago the typhoon eventually missed Tokyo completely. It is of course better to be prepared even if nothing happens, than to be unprepared and be caught unaware, so no complaints here :)
Tomorrow (July 16) is the first ever Heuristic finals for AtCoder (announcement), and besides a few familiar faces from the past Marathon/Heuristic competitions it features a whole lot of new stars and an AI competitor to boot! There will be a stream in Japanese, which is not yet my strong side (but maybe that's the language of competitive programming of the future, given how important AtCoder and the community in Japan are for moving our entire field forward), but I still expect it to be exciting to watch, so tune in tomorrow!
