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See this post: Dallas keeps growing.
When I read that article, I thought there was nowhere to go in the Dallas area except three or four cities north of the city. In fact, there is still so much open space on the north side of Ft Worth -- the metroplex is just getting started.
That OpenAI / CoreWeave -- Denton, TX -- announcement yesterday, or whenever it was, was just the next announcement.
Sophia and I drove to Flower Mound today. She's kayaking on this side of the lake today. I had not been to Flower Mound in a long, long time. Wow, it's gorgeous. And so much room for development. The city has a reputation for requiring only large lots for single-unit homes; I assume that attitude prevails. Lots of hobby horse -- literally "hobby horse" -- farms for teenage girls. LOL.
We're at Rockledge Park today; really, really nice shoreline; lives up to its name. Rock ledge. Incredible location for landscape painting.
I'm at a coffee shop for the morning while Sophia kayaks. I'll pick her up sometime after noon or so. She is really in her element.
Her oldest sister is in Seattle, Washington, for the week.
Her older sister in in Peru on an archaeological dig with a team from Stanford University.
Who would have ever guessed.
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The Book Page
The Story of Semiconductors, John Orton, c. 2004.
Whatever notes I take will be here.
After just a few pages into this book this is the first takeaway: basic science in the whole field of semiconductors is amazing. Despite all the strides since the 1950s (maybe earlier) it's amazing how much seems to be unknown / unexplained when it comes to electricity. The physics of elemental particles is absolutely "strange." My first exposure to the strangeness of quantum theory began in high school chemistry with Mr Ceglowski with "electron shells" and especially "tunneling." And one gets the feeling, physicists really have a lot more to learn.
Remember how we used to talk about the probability of "finding" an electron in any given shell in single atom? It turns out that in a crystal (conducting / semiconducting), it's no longer about the probability of a single electron in any given shell around any given atom, but rather, the probability of an electron anywhere in the entire crystal.
But I now understand the history of semiconductors:
- telegraph, wired
- radio, wireless
- vacuum tubes
- insert miracle here
- computer as we know it
I'll never understand it, but I'll read and re-read about it until I die.
The semiconductor story truly begins with copper mining / refining in Assyria in 3,000 BC, or thereabouts.
I just finished this book: Assyria: The and Fall of the World's First Empire, Eckart Frahm, c. 2023.
