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Family Halloweens
We make costumes for halloween
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The First Deep Learning Processors (Created for DARPA)
We created the first microchips for deep learning — tensor processing units (TPUs). Our first silicon came back from foundry in 2011/2012. The video above shows us opening up our first wafer from TSMC. According to Google Gemini, Google started their TPU project in late 2013, about 4-6 months after I gave the talk there,…
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The Mustn’t Grumble
Avant-garde folk Parisian swing music. Listen to us play on Hudson Valley National Public Radio Live at the Linda. With over 500,000 monthly listeners, WAMC ranks among the most-listened-to public radio stations in the United States.
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Experimental Musical Instrument Workshop at MIT
I led the Experimental Musical Instruments Workshop At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and hosted John Zorn as our Guest Artist. Many of our new instruments were playable, but didn’t yet have any manner of musical notation. The question was therefore, “How do we learn to play these instruments in an ensemble?” We used John Zorn’s…
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Drum-o-Saurus
The problem with drums in the city is they are too large for small spaces, and too loud for the neighbors! Plus drums are heavy and bulky to move. The problem with digital/electronic drums is that they are not like playing real drums. They feel like holding your lover’s hand with pliers. No feel. No…