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Flight Cancelled Okay, so I recently attended a conference, which was a fantastic experience (my first conference)! Despite the heat and everything, I had a great time and learned a lot about the state of the field. For example, I was surprised to learn that a significant chunk of the research focus and anticipated future directions was around foundation models. Like, for example, GPTs and Stable Diffusion and etc etc etc... But! On the last day I was supposed to get a plane home at 9pm ish. The flight was delayed by an hour, no big deal. Then it was delayed by two hours. Uh, hopefully my hotel will still be able to let me in if I arrive late... Then three hours. Then four hours. In the end the plane was expected to depart at like 2am, which we were told at 11pm. At 11:30pm, we were told "sorry, it's been cancelled". So, this has never happened to me before. Somehow, I was not exactly phased, maybe because the university had an emergency number to call. I called that number and they basically used the airline's website to get me a new plane home the next day. But for the hotel, I had to sort that myself.