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Covid-19 and vaccine

I was wondering if the corona vaccine vaccination would be a long way off, but suddenly the movement of occupational vaccination accelerated, and our Osaka workers were able to inoculate the occupational area. In my case, I received my first occupational vaccination on July 6th. (As for workplace inoculation in Japan, there were more requests than expected, so new reception has been stopped since then.) In Hirakata City, my father-in-law completed two vaccinations in June, and my parents living in Shizuoka also received the first vaccination at the end of June. Hirakata City has been shipping vaccination tickets for people under the age of 65 since the beginning of this month (I and my wife also received them on July 5). Therefore, even if there is no occupational vaccination, it is possible to inoculate in Hirakata City or in Osaka Prefecture, but in reality, the amount of vaccine has been insufficient, so in Hirakata City. As for vaccination, a postcard has arrived today stating that

New Filofax arrives

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I used to use a thin personal organizer, but as the number of sheets increased and it became difficult to use, I decided to change to the normal ring size type(23mm) I used before. I bought a Filofax when I went to England in 1989 and had been using it for almost 10 years, so I like it very much, and the recent Original has a nice color and a nice design, so I thought it was better than before. However, if you buy it at a Japanese retail store, it costs about 16,000 yen(about $160) which is expensive for me, and some Japanese online sites sell it for about 11,000 yen, but there are almost no popular colors, and the type of color you want is still 16,000. I was looking for more and I found that I could get Dark Aqua, which I wanted at a British online shop called Pen Heaven , for about 8000 yen (8700 yen including shipping). I ordered immediately (April 29). However, it took quite a few days from there, and it was March 19 that I finally arrived at my house.  At first, I was looking fo

This year's golden week

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During this year's Golden Week, a state of emergency was issued and instructions were given to refrain from moving across prefectures, so I ended up spending a week relaxing at home and in the neighborhood of my house. I thought about staying at a campsite near my house for about one night, but all the campsites were closed, and the riverbed park, barbecue area and parking lot were all closed. The use of the riverbed itself was not prohibited, so the weather was fine on May 3rd and 4th and I went to the riverbed park near my house by bicycle, set up a tent, read a book, and had a cup of tea, spending time playing catch. The riverbed of Hirakata is a place I like very much, and although there are not so many people, it was used by many families while the destination was restricted. Given that it would have been terrible if the parking lot had been opened, I think it was a wise decision to close the parking lot. May 3rd May 4rd However, if you think about it carefully, last year'

Ikuno Korean Town, Tsuruhashi

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On this day(March 9th), I happened to take annual leave, and then my wife wanted to go, so we suddenly decided to go to Tsuruhashi Korean Town for lunch. This is officially called Ikuno Korea Town in Osaka , and the last time I went there was in June 2003 , so it's been 20 years since then. Last time I walked from Momodani station, but this time I decided to go from Tsuruhashi station in front of me. This has changed a lot in 20 years, and there are some shops with BTS pictures before entering Koreatown, and even though it is still around 10 o'clock, a group of young women are already walking down the street. From here, Koreatown is finally here. Right after entering the street is today's lunch shop. It was too early, so there weren't many shops or customers, but by the time we finished eating (11:00), the number of people had increased considerably. We were planning to have lunch at this restaurant, but we stopped because it was written on the internet that Tuesday was

Kunizakai ski resort

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I went to the Kunizakai ski resort on February 21st last month. At this time, Osaka was still in a state of emergency and I was wondering if I should go, but the number of infected people has decreased considerably and the ski resort is an outdoor activity and it is relatively safe compared to others. I decided to go for it. On this day, it was cold a few days ago, and there were more than 1m of snow, and it was warm with good weather and the temperature was quite warm, so it was just like spring skiing. Since it was open at 8 o'clock, I left around 5:30 and arrived at 7:55, but the first parking lot was already full and I was guided to the second parking lot, which was a little far away. The lift ticket office and ski rental area are also crowded, and we have to line up for more than 40 minutes for ski rental (in our case, only children's boots are rented). It was really vacant in February last year due to the influence of the corona, but this time it was more crowded than exp

About machine learning programming

Recently, I've been studying AI and machine learning using Python, and it's quite interesting to start doing it. Especially, I think it's really convenient that you can easily use TensorFlow and Keras with just a browser using Google Colaboratory. At first, I'm a little confused about where to start this kind of study, but there are many books on AI and machine learning, and when I read them at a bookstore and somehow keep in mind the keywords, I somehow understand the image. After that, if you make an online reservation for a book that seems good from the library and read it, your understanding will gradually deepen. It was a book called "Deep Learning Mechanism to Learn While Working with TensorFlow and Keras" that was very interesting to me and deepened my understanding of machine learning. As a result, I was able to grasp the concept of logistic regression, softmax function, sigmoid function, ReLU, convolutional filter, CNN, etc. in addition to matrix calc

About corona infection status

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With the third wave of corona coming, I checked what the current situation is. Domestic situation