{"id":68973,"date":"2019-09-14T23:55:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T03:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/09\/14\/saturday-night-delayed-hackmit\/"},"modified":"2019-09-14T23:55:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T03:55:08","slug":"saturday-night-delayed-hackmit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2019\/09\/14\/saturday-night-delayed-hackmit\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night (delayed) \u2013 HackMIT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wonderfully crazy and fun day at hackmit yesterday\u2026 There were more than 1100 students\u2026 About 700 of them from MIT and 400 others that were flown in at the events expense. I don’t think I’ve ever been around this many Uber smart people . And I’m proud to say we were ready for them. Our Ibm team was there in force\u2026 Call we had prepared long and hard for this and it felt very good<\/p>\n

Several of us got there very early to begin setting up\u2026 It was fun being in that large stadium all by ourselves<\/p>\n

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By 9 o’clock when The event officially began we were ready<\/p>\n

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I had to make a short 902nd presentation at the opening ceremony that laid out everything Ibm was doing, our challenges, our prizes etc. It’s hard to make such a short speech<\/p>\n

As soon as the opening ceremony was over the students poured in and we were absolutely mobbed for swag\u2026 Luckily we were well prepared<\/p>\n

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We spent the morning helping student teams decide what to do and trying to convince them to let us help them. I think we did a pretty good job\u2026 Will see today<\/p>\n

Around 1 o’clock my friend Derek did a very well-done tech talk on the Ibm programs. He talked about his work with project owl\u2026 One of last year’s call for code projects that he helped his wife. He then walk people through how to use IBM cloud by showing them how he had hooked up his Tesla. It was standing room only<\/p>\n

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The rest of the day was just meeting with students helping them where We could<\/p>\n

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We took breaks when we could to eat etc. I really enjoyed hanging out with The other members of the Ibm team<\/p>\n

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From there on it was hacking until about 2:30 AM when things got pretty quiet<\/p>\n

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Some of that quiet time allowed Derek to let me drive his Tesla. ‘<\/p>\n

It’s the closest thing I’ve ever been into to a rocket ship. Truly an amazing machine<\/p>\n

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I got out my electric go cart\u2026 Which was my “indoor Tesla”\u2026 Here is Hendrik taking spin<\/p>\n

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Then more hacking<\/p>\n

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I did note that we were the only sponsor there after about midnight on\u2026 Go team Ibm!<\/p>\n

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I went home and got about 3 1\/2 hours sleep\u2026 And feel great. Just about to walk in there this morning. Let’s see how it goes today<\/p>\n

Night all, nite Sam<\/p>\n

– me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wonderfully crazy and fun day at hackmit yesterday\u2026 There were more than 1100 students\u2026 About 700 of them from MIT and 400 others that were flown in at the events expense. I don’t think I’ve ever been around this many Uber smart people . And I’m proud to say we were ready for them. Our … Continue reading Saturday night (delayed) \u2013 HackMIT<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}