Situation and progress
Sep. 11th, 2021 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcA few years ago I mentioned how I side with the minority here in placing the start of fall at the start of September. Again, it fits: lately the house has been mid-seventies, the air conditioning hasn't much cut in. Still, it was pleasant and sunny. I may even have mowed the yard had I slept better last night, or not eaten too much pizza for lunch. My weight had again dipped enough for me to briefly indulge in unrestrained consumption which, today, included a spinach feta pizza from Domino's. They're reliably quite good and my local branch is walkable, though not such that I want to walk there for carryout. I also ate a small butterscotch meringue pie. They are a little sweet for me, and I do rather like lemon, but I am also partial to butterscotch and those were the meringues significantly discounted.
Progress on the house is painful. More urgent issues involve leaks and drainage, for obvious reasons, also finishing the floors, for livability. With my now paying out of disposable income, everything else with the house, and there is yet plenty, probably has to wait for next year. I am coming to terms with this, it still gets me down. I think it is part of why I have not been getting much done lately on the domestic front.
Work is coming back under control. Practically, I am settled into a routine, with desk setup and meals and the like. My attention is mostly on three projects, on all of which I can try to make progress this coming week. The C++ project involves instrumenting existing code, the Java one is a web portal, the Python one is on deep learning. Soon I expect to be down to two on-site days per week. Recently I attempted to use an evolutionary algorithm, mutation guided by biases, to optimize spiking neural networks that I was using as classifiers of input sequences; they worked on easy problems but not on harder ones, so more investigation is indicated. I find that my work laptop has two USB C Thunderbolt connectors and the monitors provided me have, more or less, a dock built into the back of each. Linux support for such now seems decent.
Progress on the house is painful. More urgent issues involve leaks and drainage, for obvious reasons, also finishing the floors, for livability. With my now paying out of disposable income, everything else with the house, and there is yet plenty, probably has to wait for next year. I am coming to terms with this, it still gets me down. I think it is part of why I have not been getting much done lately on the domestic front.
Work is coming back under control. Practically, I am settled into a routine, with desk setup and meals and the like. My attention is mostly on three projects, on all of which I can try to make progress this coming week. The C++ project involves instrumenting existing code, the Java one is a web portal, the Python one is on deep learning. Soon I expect to be down to two on-site days per week. Recently I attempted to use an evolutionary algorithm, mutation guided by biases, to optimize spiking neural networks that I was using as classifiers of input sequences; they worked on easy problems but not on harder ones, so more investigation is indicated. I find that my work laptop has two USB C Thunderbolt connectors and the monitors provided me have, more or less, a dock built into the back of each. Linux support for such now seems decent.
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