Friday 03/07/2025
Main activity today was to lead a tour at the museum. This was a private tour for 15 Apple employees. I asked them what their group did, the answer was “chips”. So I guess they were somehow working on the Apple silicon, either CPUs like the M4 (my M4 Mini is supposed to arrive on the 15th) or the new Apple modem chip. Or who knows. Anyway, hardware.
Because it was a private tour I wasn’t constrained to come in under an hour. On the other hand, since this was a bunch of people working in hardware, I didn’t need to spend any time on what is a transistor, and what is an integrated circuit, or Moore’s law. Just the same, when I parted from them and checked my watch, a bit over 90 minutes had passed. But they were fine with that.
In the afternoon I practiced music for another 90 minutes. And spend some time reading Fei Fei Li’s book, The Worlds I See. She is interweaving the story of her growing up in China and then as a high school student with limited English, in New Jersey, with the story of the development of artificial intelligence research. Nice book.
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