Quick down and back to ny for a couple of very good meetings. Had the good fortune to be able to meet with my good buddy Reha Who was also in town for a class. He is from istanbul.. But now lives in niarobi.. So catching him and his boss for a coiple of hours was a real treat. Hes a great nerd freind !
Were taking off.. More later
Night all, night sam
-me
We got the great news that our freinds Brd and Megg had their baby this morning ! Kasey Jonathon Dupere
Brad was a very good friend of Sam’s .. it’s amazing.. and brings me great joy to see brad with a beutiful kid..
Welcome Kasey !
nite all, nite sam
-me
Remeber that 1990’s movie with Macaulay Culkin where is folks left him in his own home unsupervised ? Well.. thats me… tongiht Diane is down in Endoctt for a couple of days and I’m here dog sitting. it’s funny to be here by myself.. i never think of being ‘by myself’ when I’m traveling.. because I love being alone while traveling . I usually need it given the large number of people I usually meet up with while I’m on the road.. Now I’m sitting here in this huge house by myself.. missing diane.
good perspective!
nite all nite sam
-me
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 !
ok.. i have soem coding to do.. more tomorrow
nite all. nite sam
-me
