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September 5: When Have Trouble Counting the Zeros, It Means You Have Too Many Transactions

I've let the time sneak up on me again tonight, so in the interest of getting to bed at an appropriate time I won't be writing much of a blog today.  Sorry!  You aren't missing much though, as today was incredibly uneventful...

This morning's breakfast was some stewed vegetable mixtures and green peppers with ground beef inside (delicious) with miso soup and rice.  Today's miso soup had baked squash in it, which was novel, but it will not be bringing about a flavour revolution, if you ask me. ;D

At work I worked on my recommender some.  It seems to do its job well, the problem is that there are 10 million transactions in the full dataset I've been given, which is far, far too many to handle.  I estimated that one run of the recommender would take about 3 days. D:  I spent most of today on the task of reducing the size of the dataset through various means, although the more "principled" ways have unfortunately failed for the most part.  After imposing relatively strict requirements on transactions that would be allowed to be kept, I was left with... 8.5 million transactions.  D:<  Not so helpful.  After consulting with Kabutoya-san about this, he told me that I will just have to cut out a slice of transactions that were made in a certain time frame.  It'll work, but it's not terribly pretty.  Oh well, anything to make it work...  At lunch I ate hiyashi wakame soba and played handiball badly.  Not much else to say there haha. >_<

I walked home and ate dorm dinner of some kind of glazed chicken, more baked squash, and a pile of very small clams.  It was all quite good, but not very large, which made me happy to have a frozen grapefruit waiting for me afterwards.  I didn't do too much for the rest of the evening, so I'll end the blog there and go brush my teeth.  As would be expected, I appear to be the only one here who a) knows how to brush his teeth properly, and b) ever flosses. D:  Their poor teeth...  A lot of the people in my dorm actually have respectable teeth at this point, but if they keep brushing like I see them brushing, that will eventually change. D:

Night!