Great, slow day back home. so need the down time. My old freind henry is here with his daughter Gigi and her BF Matt who is just starting as a freshman at UVM. . Herny and I were good freinds during my last year at MIT in 1980-81.. he was part of the swarm of freinds we had in Bexeley Hall…. its so cool to hang up with him now 35 years later.. We spent the day walking in the woods and hanging out.. talking about old times and old friends.
The other thing we talked about is Articifical Intelligence.. Henry’s dad.. Marvin Minsky.. was one of the founders of the AI movement .. He was well known for that when I was at MIT>. and his reuptation grew until his death earlier this year.. I remember visiting their house in Brookline .. they had a swing in their lifving room .. and an old WWII bomb..
Henry works at Nest.. part of Google, and is also very much into AI..it must be genetic. we spent a couple of hours talking about modeling schma for robotics.. it was so cool talkign to him about that becase i spent a good part of last week talkign to colleagies in Zurich about the same thing. It’s so much fun to talk to someone so passiononate about a topic that I love too. We were talkign about how an AI system like a robot would learn about the world.. such cool stuff…
We all took a great walk around libbys lookout.. .. it was starting to look like it was almost heading towards fall !
Greetings from National Airport in DC> we just got taken off our plane due to a maintanince issue (grrr).. so I’m not getting home as fast as i’d hoped.
I really like my job.. but this commute is a bear.. When folks ask me these days where I live i tell them ‘somewhere south of iceland..’
why.. because I live in Vermont, Work in Germany.. so i figure I average somewhere soth of Iceland.
I woke from a nap on the plane this afternoon to find myself.. guess where.. somewhere south of iceland..
One of the wierd things about workign so much in europe these days is that I end up working about an extra half day every day. .. .. today was 17 hours long.. its just a trick of the timezones..
I know it sounds funny… but I’m lookign forward to stting on anirplane all day tomorrow and being hard to reach
i’ve been workingsolid all day. tryingto be intwo places at once and kinda beinginneither. I wasfinally getting down to the end of my todo list aroudn 1 am and realizedthat i neededto makeashort video for my friends in IBM Guadalajara for their ‘Wild the Future’ (WTF.. seriously 😕 ) hackathon tomorrow I dont have enough cell service in the hotel room to operate my glasses (long story).. so I had to make this movie standing out on the street at 1 AM.. its prettygoofy,but the glasses gave a good effect..
