Holy crap. How is it that I, someone that can't really respect anyone that takes themselves seriously, takes myself so damn seriously in these journal posts. I like going back and reading them, but everything I say on the internet seems to be a lie in some way or another. The ability to delete and rewrite sends me into some bizarre manic state where I'm a complete ass or a sniveling wretch.
I will now write a boring list of things that happened today:
-I woke up at 5:45 for without reason. It allowed me to reply to an email from my dad sent at about 5:30. I hope he thinks I get up that early.
-I rode my bike to a friend's house.
-I replied to several emails from work, which indicated that I would have to go.
-Said friend showed me what is necessary in taking care of his incredibly well trained dog that I love for the next few days while he's out of town. He then made me breakfast which was simple and delicious. I will eat things from his garden while he is gone (as I was instructed). This is a positive series of events.
-I rode to work. This was my first time riding to CHH, and it was pretty easy, but that's because my friend's house is halfway there. The whole thing would have been a little ug.
-I struggled with a pile of code that I don't like for some time. I got the port codes from the stimulus software to transmit properly to the eeg recording software using a small piece of code, but in the larger program it still seems to be a problem. This is why I hate other people's code: it's not commented like a novel, and should be. I decided to call it a week as I have seminars on Friday.
-I rode back to town, but as my meeting with my wonderful computer vision / machine learning professor only happens when I've accomplished things, and I have not, it did not.
-I decided to spend the time between the canceled meeting and the intelligent and adaptive systems seminar playing videogames instead of enjoying the weather. I asked two friends to meet me. One was busy, the other didn't reply.
-I played for awhile, and then the non-responding showed up, still having not responded. It was good to see her as our usual thursday lunch didn't happen. I gave her a swift kick in the pants via dr. mario, set a high score, and was late for seminar. She pointed out that while I'm being better at dr. mario, she's getting ready for med school. Being approximately 1:30pm, setting a high score doesn't mean it was a good score either, so pride here requires some reach.
-I rode to seminar. I was almost run over by my friend on the way. I'm not good at biking in traffic. I'm also not good at keeping my shoelace out of my gears. These things came together in an embarrassing way, and luckily, the person to see it is someone who will be able to laugh at me for it in the future. Great.
-The seminar topic was self repairing nanowire networks. I wasn't moved, but the speaker then said, and I'm sorry for the lack of context, "or from behind, if you like," in his ambiguous little accent. I chuckled on the inside. The thing that was interesting was the claim that a well ordered input layer and a trained output layer with a massive, poorly ordered middle layer can produce worthwhile effects. I'm interested in trying this. If it's true, it would mean you only really have to apply learning to one or two layers of a network and can have a random hardware network in the center, which would allow from bizarre topologies without the problem of figuring out a good learning algorithm. This was a big thing for me a few years ago.
-I then rode home.
-My family is delayed in their visit, so I thought I should take a nap, considering the lack of sleep. Instead, I played Lumines for too damn long. #24 for the week though (1031970). I hate it. I don't like it anymore, but I can play it while listening to podcasts, so I do. Science Friday on dogs was good. I do love the evolution of dogs.
-I wrote this.
-Then I went to pokpok with roomie and got some of the chicken to go. It required ignoring my food weirdness for awhile, but I will for pokpok.
-The family showed up late and I had another dinner.
See, not serious. Lots of riding around today, did some stuff. Listened to some stuff. Not serious. But still weird pride/shame relationship. I swear I'm pretty bad at everything I worked on today, but I'm proud of the things I chose to do. I think that's going to stay a theme. Good choices followed by incompleteness and subtle incompetence that only I and close friends seem to notice. I'm definitely still not good at riding around. My legs are like noodles. I will be non-mopey, non-serious AND calm and brief in the next post to ether. I will also make an effort to get defined, and figure out what the value of something like this might be for me. Don't expect anything groundbreaking.
I will now write a boring list of things that happened today:
-I woke up at 5:45 for without reason. It allowed me to reply to an email from my dad sent at about 5:30. I hope he thinks I get up that early.
-I rode my bike to a friend's house.
-I replied to several emails from work, which indicated that I would have to go.
-Said friend showed me what is necessary in taking care of his incredibly well trained dog that I love for the next few days while he's out of town. He then made me breakfast which was simple and delicious. I will eat things from his garden while he is gone (as I was instructed). This is a positive series of events.
-I rode to work. This was my first time riding to CHH, and it was pretty easy, but that's because my friend's house is halfway there. The whole thing would have been a little ug.
-I struggled with a pile of code that I don't like for some time. I got the port codes from the stimulus software to transmit properly to the eeg recording software using a small piece of code, but in the larger program it still seems to be a problem. This is why I hate other people's code: it's not commented like a novel, and should be. I decided to call it a week as I have seminars on Friday.
-I rode back to town, but as my meeting with my wonderful computer vision / machine learning professor only happens when I've accomplished things, and I have not, it did not.
-I decided to spend the time between the canceled meeting and the intelligent and adaptive systems seminar playing videogames instead of enjoying the weather. I asked two friends to meet me. One was busy, the other didn't reply.
-I played for awhile, and then the non-responding showed up, still having not responded. It was good to see her as our usual thursday lunch didn't happen. I gave her a swift kick in the pants via dr. mario, set a high score, and was late for seminar. She pointed out that while I'm being better at dr. mario, she's getting ready for med school. Being approximately 1:30pm, setting a high score doesn't mean it was a good score either, so pride here requires some reach.
-I rode to seminar. I was almost run over by my friend on the way. I'm not good at biking in traffic. I'm also not good at keeping my shoelace out of my gears. These things came together in an embarrassing way, and luckily, the person to see it is someone who will be able to laugh at me for it in the future. Great.
-The seminar topic was self repairing nanowire networks. I wasn't moved, but the speaker then said, and I'm sorry for the lack of context, "or from behind, if you like," in his ambiguous little accent. I chuckled on the inside. The thing that was interesting was the claim that a well ordered input layer and a trained output layer with a massive, poorly ordered middle layer can produce worthwhile effects. I'm interested in trying this. If it's true, it would mean you only really have to apply learning to one or two layers of a network and can have a random hardware network in the center, which would allow from bizarre topologies without the problem of figuring out a good learning algorithm. This was a big thing for me a few years ago.
-I then rode home.
-My family is delayed in their visit, so I thought I should take a nap, considering the lack of sleep. Instead, I played Lumines for too damn long. #24 for the week though (1031970). I hate it. I don't like it anymore, but I can play it while listening to podcasts, so I do. Science Friday on dogs was good. I do love the evolution of dogs.
-I wrote this.
-Then I went to pokpok with roomie and got some of the chicken to go. It required ignoring my food weirdness for awhile, but I will for pokpok.
-The family showed up late and I had another dinner.
See, not serious. Lots of riding around today, did some stuff. Listened to some stuff. Not serious. But still weird pride/shame relationship. I swear I'm pretty bad at everything I worked on today, but I'm proud of the things I chose to do. I think that's going to stay a theme. Good choices followed by incompleteness and subtle incompetence that only I and close friends seem to notice. I'm definitely still not good at riding around. My legs are like noodles. I will be non-mopey, non-serious AND calm and brief in the next post to ether. I will also make an effort to get defined, and figure out what the value of something like this might be for me. Don't expect anything groundbreaking.