Dan and I got out for a really nice hike in Honey in Hollow today. It’s definitely turning in the spring. They were still quite a bit of snow up there but there is more bare ground than snow.… The ground was still pretty frozen so we didn’t mind bushwhacking up… It was so great a sculpture still hanging on some of the rock faces. Really beautiful

Later in the evening ‘Diane and I attended a programming seminar given by our friends Chen and ‘Chris in association with her AI art project… One of the contributors describe the generative shape tool which to use genetic algorithms. Another student Showed us all the cool things you can do with P5JS… It’s a library built on my favorite programming environment called processing… It has some really nice tools for artists. check out the stuff here ! https://editor.p5js.org/Lapo/collections/IZ9J0Hm9Q

nite all, nite sam

me

Oh they get a great experience at Williston central school… A middle school near here. A group including my friends Herman, Shannon, Isa and Brielle went into a seventh and eighth grade class of 70 kids to talk about engineering, biomimicry and what we do at Aida. We had four independent classes but we taught and two teams. Showed them some cool materials that we use at our company to build our amazing airplanes and show them some basic engineering process… Then we had them engineer a structure using spaghetti, toothpicks, marshmallows… You’ve probably tried this yourself. It was really fun to see what the students came up with. They had some great insights and great questions.

What’s interesting for me is that I’ve usually done my own stick… The microvolts to Meghan Holt… This is a totally new set of messages for me… And it was fun to get my head around it

It was so nice to be with students again! Can’t wait to do it again

nite all, nite sam

-me

It was a very artistic day… I started in this mysterious place… I’m not at liberty to say where or what it was but it was so cool

Dan Petroula around noon and we went to UVM to see our friends jen and Chris’s AI Art Exhibit… All of the Works had an angle of a high or at least machine learning… It was very interesting and very well presented

We took advantage of being on campus to show Diane my friend Dave’a Math science later… It’s my favorite room on campus

It was really fun to have a day so full of art and science mixed

note all, nite sam

-me

today was very peaceful. Our friends Gretchen and Marshall brought over some new friends of theirs: Isaac, Susan and they’re very little baby Sophia. Isaac is a post doc in the mechanical engineering department at UVM, Susan is a graduate student in education at Ohio State and Sophia is just the cutest little baby. It was so great catching up both with them and with Gretchen and Marshall… It is so nice having a baby In the house even for a few minutes

nite all, nite sam

-me