It’s 330 in the morning and I’m just getting back to my room.
Long day of working at the tech together hack-athon. Amazing collection of women and non-binary gender technical folks. Lots of great ideas and as always lots of technical challenges.
Too late to go into too much detail. I’ll leave that for tomorrow.
Nite all, nite Sam
-me
It’s about 1 AM and I’m just getting back to my airbnb . I’m in Boston this weekend helping with the Tech together hack-athon… This hack-athon, which used to be called shehacks Is Boston’s largest female and non-binary gender Heckathorne. I’m here with my friends from Ibm and we offered a challenge around fairness for ai.
It’s such a great crowd of people… We’ve been wondering around talking to people about their ideas. I’m really blown away with the creativity.
It was great meeting everyone
The hacking happens down on the floor of a giant auditorium. I was here once before for first robotics challenge
It was great hanging out with my IBM friends and all the new folks we met
They handed out exfoliating masks… I chose cucumber. It made me look like Michael Myers !
Our sessions have been very popular. Our 11 PM session was standing room only which was kind of hard to believe
OK… I’ve got to get some sleep. More tomorrow
Nite all, nite Sam
-me
Just back from a very interesting working meeting with my friends Sara and Charles. We are working on a paper Do you document it very interesting project the three of us did several years back. The project began as a tribute to Sara’s Mentor Herb and his wife Florida. Herb had recently died after a long and productive life. His wife Lauren Ohm died within 12 days. The two of them had spent their entire lives studying and drawing spiders. They were some of the worlds most renowned arachnologists.
Sarah was looking for a fitting tribute to these wonderful people. So the public can send them off at a memorial service.She called me to brainstorm. She wanted to make some sort of tribute that related to the spiders that Herb and Lorna loved. Through a very funny and complicated process we decided to make models of the spiders stribulating organs… These are the device is the spider uses to make sounds to attract a mate. Our idea was to take models of the spiders Stribulating organs Then blow them up and make them into a mold where we could cast Some sort of edible candy. .. we settled on caramel .. The guests at the memorial service good then stroke that shaped candy to make the sounds of spiders as a tribute to herb and Lorna
The story of how this worked out is pretty funny. With our help Sara used Several high-tech imaging devices including micro CT, scanning electron microscope’s, and focal plane microscopes to get an image of the spiders topography. Then we used some artistic license to create a mold. She then reached out to the presidential pastry chef in the White House for a caramel recipe. And the night before the memorial service she successfully cast several spider inspired edible musical instruments… Those were played at the memorial service
Crazy huh?…
But it doesn’t stop there. In the course of trying to analyze the data derived From the spider parts, Charles was able to create a completely new biological imaging system that allowed even complex models like the micro CT of the spider to be displayed efficiently on something as small as a mobile phone.
You never know where the spiders web leads…
I’ll share the article when it’s ready to publish. It’s certainly stranger than fiction
nite all, nite Sam
-me
Diane and i are very close . So close in fact that our phones photos and text messages get mixed up, through some craziness of iCloud i can see Diane’s pictures and she can see mine
Today i found this one
I have no ideas what this is and why it’s on my phone
Isn’t life wonderful like that ? I better go find my mate and see what it means !
Nite all ? Nite sam
-me