The monthly note on what moved. This site is being filled in backwards from notes, photographs and accounts I do not control, so older posts change; the reasons are on the colophon. In September 2026:
New
- GTC25: twenty-five thousand people and the first Quantum Day (March 2025)
- Rocket City, the first time (January 2025)
- Frontiers in Science, at home (April 2025)
- AI for the Accelerated Science, downtown (October 2025)
- Two generative AI talks at Georgia Tech (October 2024)
- Five days on AI and fundamental physics at MIT (August 2024)
- Week one at the CMSA: mathematics, computers and AI (September 2024)
Expanded or split
- Financial economics in the 1960s, and the music people (November 2024)
- Across the Charles, and a wrong turn into CSAIL (September 2024)
- Three Marches in San Jose, and the line that beat me (March 2026)
- Two trips to the Rocket City, and the writers who will not budge (January 2026)
- Brutus and I Went to Indianapolis (August 2026)
- A third time in Philly, for the mathematicians (July 2026)
- Brutus at the Duke photonics lab, second stop (June 2026)
- I skipped CVPR for an interferometer in a box (June 2026)
- Midnight in Paris, mapped to the latent space of Savannah (February 2026)
- A porch in San Diego, and an entire arm of talks about creativity (December 2025)
- Gateway to the West: SC25 and the machine language quantum does not have (November 2025)
- NeSy25 in Santa Cruz, and a Mario Kart run over HWY17 (September 2025)
- Gonzo in the Valley of Heart’s Delight (September 2025)
- Open25 at the Venetian, and demand manufactured out of nothing (August 2025)
- Two Tracks in the House That Halmos Built (August 2025)
- Ed Chi on machine dreaming, and a vibe shift at Berkeley (August 2025)
- Where the valley trips actually happened (July 2025)
- The Trillion Parameter Consortium, and a Vibe Shift (July 2025)
- Value over hype in the foothills of the western Carolinas (July 2025)
- Motor City to Music City, and the hat they ran out of (June 2025)
- A week in the cursed town: SciFM25 in Ann Arbor (May 2025)
- Mostly Java developers: a week at MLSys25 in Santa Clara (May 2025)
- Waymo HQ and Moffett Field, on the same afternoon (May 2025)
- No room at all in the RL sessions (March 2025)
- SC24 Was to Quantum What GTC24 Was to GenAI (November 2024)
- Standing room at ISMIR, and a medieval precedent for robots (November 2024)
- Node, edge, and 2000 GPU days (October 2024)
- Kind, smart, old-fashioned, hip: a week at the OSG School (August 2024)
- AI Summer in Austin: Ford’s World Models and Toyota’s PMO Book (July 2024)
- Dominoes in Little Havana, and whether geometry is still safe (June 2024)
- AI Summer Starts in Buffalo, the City of Light (June 2024)
