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… I miss the glory days when you were open until 10 (and Bookbuyers was open to midnight, just up the street) but you’re still a great place to grab a mocha, get together with techy friends, and work on a project.
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What’s amazing about the Bay Area is how much technology is just milling around in the ether. I practically tripped on a robot on the way to the meeting, some people at a nearby table were talking about self-driving cars, day before yesterday the people next to me were talking about robots, reinforcement learning and my colleagues, and I ran into three techy friends, one of whom introduced me to some more robot folk.
What a place to be, and what a time to be alive.
Blogging every day.
-the Centaur