There are people who take retreats and go off to fish," he said.
But his idea was to skip the fun and devote the time to work. "I wanted to force myself to read five or six related papers and then
go take a walk and then write up my thoughts about ... when do
cameras really come in, when do robots really come in, when does
speech translation get to being good enough, how do the various
form factors-like phones vs. tablets-relate to each other?