 Computers keep changing the world, but their power and safety is limited by their rigid design. The T2TILE project works for bigger and safer computing using living systems principles. Follow our progress here on T Tuesday Updates. This is the 32nd T Tuesday Update. Let's get into it. So last week we had the assembly of the first T2TILE ring. In the way that we view things, a ring is one unit, whatever it happens to be. In this case it was a tile with six other units around it. So seven units total making a ring. We got it working. There's a lot more left to do, but that was pretty exciting. And I made a sort of little silent video for it because I had to leave early to do this traveling. I'll talk about this week. And so it was kind of a little bit short and a little bit punchy. And I found some free music that I could put on it and so forth. And of course it's actually doing pretty well over the last 10 videos. The world's first T2TILE ring has been the number one video in terms of number of views, not in terms of number of minutes watched because it's very short. And this is of course the standard problem that shorter and punchier makes for better video viewing and more success than these longer videos with all the professorial digressions like this one that I do week to week. The problem is that short and punchy takes a lot more work and a lot more time for me than just showing up for class and talking. So it's just a fundamental trade off with not enough hours in the day. Since that time we went off to Vienna, Austria for this Pioneers 19. It's a startup festival emphasizing startups in Europe. I'll talk about that in the coming week. What it's really about for me is it's time to do more software level of things. We got a ring built last week and now have enough tiles to build three lotuses. A lotus is a ring with an extra layer around it. One unit plus six around that plus 12 around that for a total of 19 in a lotus. And I do not want to actually build those all up until I've cleaned up the software build the install that we did for that. So that's coming up. It's sort of system admin stuff, Linux stuff, packages, all that kind of thing. Not that exciting in the grand scheme of things, but the next step in the series of many steps. In addition, coming up this coming Saturday, four days from today, we're going to have the second T2 tile public project public meeting. The theme, the goal of the meeting is how should we explain this stuff? One of the things I learned from doing the pioneers, no matter how hard I try in a 15 minute talk or whatever it is, it's really, really hard to get across an idea that is sort of, you know, that flips over so many cards at once that blows up so many ideas at once. And even people who were excited about it, there were a bunch of people who thought it was pretty interesting and pretty cool. And they came up afterwards and had comments and questions, which was great. That, you know, very few people had gotten through, no, it's a little bit more serious than that. So I'd like to discuss that with folks. Noon, Mountain Time, the same time, the T2 tile, T Tuesday updates release or Trider release this coming Saturday. The live stream, I have a redirectorlinkanimate.us slash T2PM 11. T2 is the public meeting number 11. If you want to just show up at the live stream and chat, that'd be great. Try to do a better job than we did on the first one, integrating the text chats coming on the live stream into the discussion. Now that I understand a little bit more about how it works, if you're actually brave enough and you think you might have fun and it might have something to contribute to actually be one of the talking heads, come on over to the Gitter chat room and hit me up and let's talk. There's certainly room for one or two or three more talking heads. If you'd like to join in, I would love to have you. So that's coming up on Saturday. All right. So, Vienna, we had never been to Austria or Vienna. We got time for a little bit of sightseeing. We saw these marvelous old churches. All right. There's me seeing the church. We saw the city from the hills surrounding it. We saw chamber music in a chamber. It was very nice. We got, you know, we saw great art explained to us by an art historian, which was actually pretty interesting. And we went to visit a monument to Ignat Semmelweis, who's sort of one of my personal tragic hero cautionary figures. If you don't know about Semmelweis, he was a doctor that sort of first put it together that disease could be spread from one patient to another by doctors. And when he was in charge of the hospital in Vienna, he put in a policy that said, you know, you had to wash your hands and this nasty chlorated whatever it was solution between going from one patient to another and in particular between going from the autopsy to the maternity ward. And when this was put in place, you know, maternal and infant deaths dropped dramatically. Doctors didn't like it and there was no actual theory because the germ theory of disease hadn't been built up at that point about why this would work when Semmelweis was out as director of the hospital. The next director abolished this policy of washing the hands and maternal and infant death went right back up. Most of the monuments to Semmelweis are in Budapest and Hungary. That's where he was born. I think I'm not entirely sure. So he didn't have actually all that much success in the end in Vienna and he went back to Budapest. And the tragic thing is that, you know, he really wasn't believed much in his own time and he died young in an insane asylum. So in Vienna, there is a hospital. It's a working hospital for a women's clinic for having babies that has this monument at it. So we schlepped out from the center of the city away from all the tourists to spend a moment with Ignat Semmelweis. So he's a hero and a warning note to me that, you know, when you try to spread ideas that are before their time, you need to be prepared to not get too far with it. And, you know, I mean, he had women and children dying. I don't have that with hardware determinism, at least not nearly as directly. So it's important for me to remember Semmelweis as far as perspective and trying not to die in an insane asylum. You know, of course, when Semmelweis was my age, he'd been dead for 15 years or something like that. So anyway, we did that. And we saw the Hofburg Palace. There were plenty of tourists at this. This thing is absolutely immense. It's, you know, a whole city block or more just goes to show what can happen if you have an empire for a couple of centuries. We had to visit it because that's in fact where this Pioneers Festival took place. My role in the thing primarily was to give this keynote, which ended up being called Future Computing and Artificial Life. And, yeah, here I am in the Speakers Lounge, which is just one of these rooms before the talk. And the whole place is just filled with all this gilded stuff everywhere. I mean, I guess they pulled out the really expensive stuff when they lease it out to conferences and so forth. Here's another view of the Speakers Lounge. You know, these guys knew how to do high ceilings. There was also monitors in a couple of places that had live feed so you could watch what was happening going on on stage while you were in the lounge or backstage and so forth. This is the door to the backstage. This is the ramp that, you know, you go through the blackout curtains and you climb up this thing to get on the stage and that's what I did. So here I was giving my talk. I freaked out a little bit because I thought it was a 20 minute talk and in the end it was, but it was really supposed to be 15 plus five, which I knew and forgot. But the timer that was running on the throwback monitors when I got there was 15 minutes and already counting. So I was a little bit rushed. So it was okay. It wasn't the best. It wasn't the worst. Starting the talk, ending the talk. And that was that. But that was the first day of the conference and the second day of the conference. The second thing I was supposed to do was get on this AI feud and the topic of the feud, which none of us, the team picked, was should AI take over the world and we were assigned teams? I was one of three people assigned to the pro position. Yes, AI should take over the world. So there's going to be pictures, official pictures from pioneers, I guess later in the week and maybe there'll be video. I'm not sure. This is a tweet from Good AI, which was one of the companies. They're based in Prague and Olga Fanasjeva. I'm sorry. Who we met was on the con team against it. So she's giving an answer there and I'm there with Dali George and now Watson who we can't see. So here we are, the pro team. AI should take over the world and it was Olga and Babak Hojat who's the guy that got me into this whole thing to begin with by getting me invited to this thing and Yan Ta-lin who was one of the original programmers who wrote Skype and he's now, among other things, one of these guys who are sort of trying to warn society about the dangers of AI and has super intelligence who wipe us all out and turn us into pets or robot food or whatever it is. None of that really came up during the feud on stage because the structure was really kind of fairly rigid but as it turned out, after the feud back in that speakers lounge, Yan and I and now Watson and Olga were just sort of sitting around and Yan and I kind of got into it about whether the sort of singularity and the AI super intelligence disaster was actually something to be thinking about or whether the entire problem needed to be reframed a different way and it was really pretty good. It was really fun. I don't know if I moved any hearts or minds really in the room there amongst us but there was a lot of actual content and a lot of collegial pushing back and forth. It was really great and I really wish we had recorded it but it was just one of those things that you had to be there. So that was fun. That kind of really made a lot of it sort of worth it right there for me. So that was Vienna and other news we saw last week we built a ring that was 7 tiles there was actually 10 tiles in the box that that built up during the fast motion section. Now I have picked up an additional 50 more whoops we got another 50 circuit boards here ready to go for a total of 60 I don't actually want to like I said sit down and burn the software and all those things until we have a slightly happier software load a little bit more caught up load like that but we are making big progress that's all great. Now we cannot actually connect all of those tiles to each other unless we have a lot more inter tile connectors and as we speak the PD, the power plus data the connectors that are getting used of course it's seen now I don't have any here because they're all tied up in the ring are getting the circuit boards, not just the circuit boards but even mounting the parts onto them are happening as we speak and this was some stuff that we heard about a couple of weeks ago all the horrible trouble I had trying to find the right size socket, the right size header to connect the tiles on these things together and did all the measurements and so forth eventually after a big long moan and groan I made the decision to just go with this sort of super expensive part that I had been trying to do better all along but by then they only had 565 of them in quantity and I needed over 900 but I told the manufacturing guys just go ahead and get those and they said it's okay we'll do 25 out of 30 panels because that's all we have enough parts for and then we can do the other 5 later so that'll produce over 300 of the power plus data connectors which will get a lot or most of the build of tiles done and they bought out the things that immediately went to zero available now I didn't really know what was going to happen next at this point you know they said they were going to buy it I sent them some more money to cover the difference between the expensive part and the cheap part but this past week something I got email from them saying you know here are, here's the sample circuit board and it was actually kind of interesting so each circuit board the way they built it has 15 intertile connectors 3x5 and they also sent one a sample showing the parts mounted on it saying you know was this correct should I go ahead and I had to look real close to make sure the keys are both pointing in the right direction but it looks like they are and that the part number, the part is not extending over the edge of the board and it looks like it isn't, it looks like it's fine and so I said actually this is the first time I used this auto complete and Gmail where it writes the mail for you looks good please proceed I sent it off I felt like such a worldly businessman because I did all of this from the top of a you know, hotel top bar overlooking Vienna while we were having a drink or two to celebrate having done all the business and the pioneer stuff so they are now as far as I know finishing 300 intertile connectors I have now 3D printed approximately I'm doing it by counting them by weight now 300 of the tabs that will mount one tab per assembly thing to put all of this stuff together we'll talk next week about more of the mechanical issues about how we're going to actually physically manage these many tiles and get them together so that we can handle them and put them together and so on and that's the manufacturing I'm going to try to keep these things short rather than just blab on until the class bell rings at 20 minutes so we're going to call it here the next Tuesday update will be out in a week between now and then we have the public meeting I encourage you if you can come join us live if not it'll be there of course after the live stream is done for people to look at just as part of posterity whether it's a posterity that anybody is ever going to be interested in knowing about we'll find out hope to see you next week