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There are ping-pong tables near my desk in MIT CSAIL but I feel somewhat let down that there isn't also a robot arm to play against.
I'm glad my skills are being put to good use at MIT: helping my colleagues rewrite silly tweets into proper English.
20 dollars cash for eye-tracking study
$-20 (€-17.97 / $-20.00 / £-14.96)
Got lost in MIT again but discovered a puppy therapy lab and a 5 storey metal sculpture of an atomic structure so net win
In reply to: http://cmsw.mit.edu/event/fox-harrell-reflections-on-advanced-identity-representation/
In reply to: https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/2016-03-16
Talk by Andrej Karpathy of Stanford
Talk by Andrej Karpathy of Stanford
Talk by Hannigan of GCHQ
Talk by Hannigan of GCHQ
In reply to: http://crosscloud.org
Helping to coordinate two days of decentralised personal social hacking at IWC MIT
Helping to coordinate two days of decentralised personal social hacking at IWC MIT
Today set out to be a quiet day of working/procrastinating from home, then a flurry of last minute plans and serendipity meant I got to meet people I previously only knew of online, and have some good conversations that will lead to future exciting work and travel related things. Sweet!
At short notice, my roommate Liz invited me sailing on the Charles. When we got there there were no boats available, but some friendly strangers had space in theirs and picked us up. One of those strangers happened to be Nate, whose Microsoft Research blog posts I'd read this summer and who had been twitter-introduced to me a couple of months ago by our mutual friend Doc. I'd been meaning to follow up and find time to meet up with him. After about 15 minutes of chatting with him and his friends in their boat, I realised who I was talking to. What are the odds?! Nate's research is relevant to mine, and he recommended a seminar group I should attend; bumping into him this way was an incredible stroke of luck!
Earlier today I learned that Shane is in town for a couple of days as part of a roadtrip around the US, so I met him and Morgan for dinner, and we talked indieweb, travel and vegan food for a few hours. And I might now have exciting and exotic christmas plans as a result.
W3C Technical Plenary, in particular for a Social Web breakout session on the Wednesday.
W3C Technical Plenary, in particular for a Social Web breakout session on the Wednesday.
I have relocated to MIT for a year to work on my PhD in the delightful company of TimBL, Sandro Hawke, Andrei Sambra, Nicola Greco and Sarven Capadisli. My desk is in the W3C office, and I'm still not sure how I got here.