Monthly Archives: March 2026

At Dartmouth I hung out with the tiny bohemian clique insofar as they tolerated me, and they hipped me to jazz. By the time I was out of college I played pop radio all the time and also occasionally visited … Continue reading →

1 Introduction Recurrent neural networks, long short-term memory [13] and gated recurrent [7] neural networks in particular, have been firmly established as state of the art approaches in sequence modeling and transduction problems such as language modeling and machine translation … Continue reading →

I recognized Matt Mahan at Blue Bottle coffee in the former Varsity theater in palo alto I did not recognize her at the time but the person who took this photo is Lorraine Powell jobs the $13 billion widow of … Continue reading →

is playing next week at the Guild Theatre in Menlo Park the article in reminds me that in 19 9828 years ago, I presented the band in their Norcal debut

Maybe they should give The John Chowning Award to the recording Academy. I might be misremembering this, but I believe John Chowning Junior and I and two other boys attended a rock concert together at the Winterland, Queen and Thin … Continue reading →

March 17 – Edu Ribeiro March 23 – Ralph Alessi

Emma Stone 2007, 2025

Art cannot save us from the cynical dishonesty of our leaders; that is not what it is for. But when we focus on its attractive surfaces rather than its deeper meaning, our critical acumen, our integrity and maybe even our … Continue reading →