Woke up to find this guy looking at me in the bathroom window. . Not just lookign at me.. charging at me through the window. I actually had to close the curtain to prevent him (her ?) from breakign the window.
Came down stairs.. saw this picture of Sam and Gabe on our photo frame..
Got a few hours to dig into my poor broken tesla coil. Iturns out it had two fried IGBT’s.. I was able o find the number, order some.. adn was able to replace them .. and it worked ! (that is after I realize i’d mad e a sall short and cleared it)
Later on.. we headed up to Deb’s.. .. it is Rory’s 2nd brithday !
I got to practive the new cupcake trick.. You cut (or tear) it and then put the botton on top of the icing.
Woke up early and went for a run on the charles.. always brings back memories of living here.. almost 50 years ago !
I stayed last night in the hyatt.. its where my folks stayed on the day I graduates in 1981.
I walked across campus to kendal square .. it used to be a dangerous part of town.. now its the the center of the bio tech universe.
I I found the MIT/NAE conference.. and met up with my BETA friends. First speaker was my freind Tsu-Jae, the president of the NAE.
one of the main speakers was Yann lecunn.. unfortunately he couldnt be here in person.. he gave a great talk
the rest of speakers weere a very interesting mix.. lots of ‘amaing things that AI can do/ will do:.. and lots of AI is makign us stupider”
here’s Tsu-Jae and Anantha
We had a great time . hearing the talks, meeting new folks and hanging out as a team.. At 5, We headed off , I gave Sara a ride home which was fun It was great talking to her.. she’s so awesome
Around noon I got in the car and started the drive down to Cambridge. Some BETA work freindsand I are goign to an NAE/MIT symposium on AI together.. I took advantage of that to go down little early to attend my freind and collaborator Dimple’s PhD defense. ,, and to meet wiht soem other friends at MIT..
I visited the student center and. saw the first place I ever donated blood (and fainted when I jumped up to help an ‘old’ guy ( who was probebly 50 🙂
I wandered over to the place where my beloved bexeley dorm was …. it’s now a parl I try tp put a samstone there when ver im on campus
I love being back on campus.. I made my way to Bldg 34 for Dimples defence. SHe’s a student of my ffirend Anatha’s she’s done soem nice work in the intersection of AI and analog circuit design. MIT IBM fundeded her work..a dn we’ve written a couple of papers togheer. (he did al the work 🙂
she did a really nice shout out to all her sponsoer, and collaboerators including Matriey .. another collaborator of ours , her collegues, her family and her husband. .. who just defended a couple of weeks ago on the west coast !
then that anxious 5 minustes while the committee debats..
then like that .. we met dr ,.Kochar
After that I met up with my collaborater Seyschelle.. whos a prof in Biochemistry.. and actualy colaborates with Prof Martin iler, Gabe’s PI in Germany
and her beutiful dog Boltzmann !
Then I met with my good freind Chris.. he and I built the Satori supercomputer togeher.. we managed to make Satori the worlds 4th (of 500 !) most energy efficient supercomputer in the 2019 Green 500 !
From there, I zoomed back to the student center to meet up with my friend Anika… shes my close freinds Ruchir and Rashi’s youngest daughter. I’m having dinner with their oldest daughter Eesha tonight along with my friends, Akash and Erica… But Annika can’t make it cause she’s just about to graduate… So I met her and we took a walk… I walked her over to where my old dorm Bexley was, and I showed her where my room would’ve been, and I showed her the samstone i’d just placed there. It was really great catching up with her. I’ve known her since she was a little girl… Now she’s just this incredibly powerful technical woman.… I can tell she’s so excited to graduate.
Then I ran completely back across campus to meet up with my friend David… He’s a pro professor in Aeronautics and also a great history of science guy… We’ve got to be really good friends. The place we were gonna meet was closed so we went next-door to another small bar. He’s working on a really cool history of electricity book… And I hope to help him in someway. He’s just a fascinating guy.
From there, I caught an Uber to Akash and Erica’s house in Cambridge. They had some delicious takeout Italian food and we just sat around and talked and played with their dog Ledoux and later on our friend Isha, Ruchir and Rashi’s daughter and Anika’s sister
It was so great hanging out… And only that but Akash got me started on some software that he’s written which I really like… It’s called the agent factory and it is really amazing to use… It’s a harness around Claude. I’ll write more about it later.
I was getting late, so Isha and I grabbed an Uber. We droppedIsha near MIT and I headed of to my hotel
Today was a bg day for the home front. Our beloved trampoline is finding a. new home with our friend Chelsea and her family.. this thing has been used by countless kids and adults.. it was often where I took calls during covid (falling asleep soemtimes in the middle) . we’ll miss it.. but it’ll sire be easier to mow now. You can even see the tramp from space
I had a great surprise today. .my old freind Igor called me out of the blue. Igor and I were good freinds back at IBM … he left and eventually ended up beign the VP in charge of Hardware development at Groq. .. which was just sold (acutally licensed) to Nvidia.. He came in to work and I got to show him around a little.. nd got to intorduce him to soem of my freinds. He’s one of the best HW engineers i’ve evenr met.. I knew he’d love BETA !
Speakign of Hardware.. I had to do some hardware and softare rework on the remote controlled candy dispenser I made for D2.. .. turns out that the MQTT broker I was using went down..
THis thig is currently hooked up to Jira.. so that when we close an issue, it dispences M&M’s.. i’m going to link it to gitlab now..
I took these pics in order to post it in pour #show-and-tell slack channel at work. People here are so creative and crafty.. people are posting amazing projects all the tim e
