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God Lives in Argentina

Does God Live in Argentina? An accepted paper in the IJCAI 2015  workshop meant one of us had to travel to Buenos Aires to present our paper. Because of the circumstances it was decided that I would travel to present our paper which spoke of a bio-inspired approach to correct the speech recognition output. The first impression you get when you scan of BA on the web is that of an unsafe place with loads of information about where to use the ATM, worry about counterfeit notes, leeching taxis, variable currency conversion rates. Add to this the travel. Mumbai to Buenos Aires is equivalent to almost 21 hours of -actual- plane travel. A short leg from Mumbai to Doha (3.5 hours), a long stretch from Doha to Buenos Aires (17.5 hours) with a short breather at Sao Paulo to stretch your legs. This is a journey that seems less enjoyable and more of a punishment if you traveled economy! Reached BA around 830 pm and hunted for a place where I could convert my USD into Peso. I qu