TBA
Ars Technica
Ars Technica and IBM: Beyond the Buzz: An Infrastructure Future with GenAI and What Comes Next was a great success. Ken and Lee put on a great event (see Ars Technica's recap), even if it wasn't any more sophisticated in its discussion than what I have been involved in at my day job. Was still great to keep in touch with what the private sector is doing, and the Computer History Museum is a spectacular venue for this sort of thing. Ken also had a discussion with some Ars Technica readers who showed up, asking about the ChatGPT deal that Conde Nast had recently signed.
Hanging out afterwards was good-- I think this was my first time meeting Lee in person, and I had not seen Ken in many years. Seems like a pretty sharp crowd running things still, although a ton more Conde Nast people than Ars Technica people. Sekoya for dinner was appropriately trendy and pretty good, with tasty cocktails, an unexpectedly good chicharrones and popcorn appetizer, and three dishes that were surprisingly good even in an area littered with pretty good restaurants: beef tongue skewer, ribeye, and a tomahawk pork chop. The mini chocolate chip cookies were addictive, too.
Earlier in the day, lunch beforehand was perfectly serviceable, not bad even, at Kusan. Uyghur cuisine is not my usual thing although I have had it more than a few times. The mini-big-plate-chicken, as amusing as the concept is, was actually kind of a fun concession to a proper portion size, and they went from completely deserted to reasonably busy in the time I was there. The Four Points by Sheraton San Jose Airport is older and a bit confused on branding (was it a Courtyard by Marriott? Or is it becoming one?), the small-ish rooms are okay given how cheap the rate was, and breakfast was pretty sad (not worth $11). Am curious how they turn out after their renovation.