Jun 24: Embarrassingly Bad at Reading
This morning I got up and had dorm breakfast. It was miso soup with wakame and tofu skins and rice with something I couldn't identify and can't really remember now, other than that it was alright. Oh, there was coleslaw made with kewpie mayo and pollock. >_< I could have done without that one. Oohashi-talked to me again this morning, and she was much more understandable today! She repeated meaningful words loudly this time, so I was able to understsand what she was trying to say! :D Hurrah! Basically she was saying that today I was the only one signed up for dorm dinner (FINE ALL THE REST OF YOU GUYS HAVE FRIENDS OR SOMETHING SEE IF I CARE!), and so she was asking me if I wouldn't mind not having it. I agreed, and we confirmed by saying "nashi" in various combinations with "kono yoru" a lot. Oh well I think it worked, because she then erased my dot from the meal signup sheet, which is what I would expect to happen if I had understood what was happening correctly.
I got to work and started reading the paper I had been given on Naive Bayesian classifiers. And I read it... and read it... and read it... I am extremely embarrassed to admit this, but I spent all morning reading a 7 page paper. Seriously. I feel very badly about it, but at least I can say that I was trying to understand the content at an able-to-implement-it level, because that was to be my next task. I prepared some questions to ask Kabutoya-san about the paper (mostly about where some of the terms in their probability equations were coming from), but as soon as I had finished going through the first one with him, the lunch bell rang, and that means all the lights immediately shut off. >_< He had a waza meeting to go to, so I couldn't continue asking my questions over lunch.
For lunch I had tofu, miso soup, rice and katsu. The katsu was pretty good, but not as good as the one at Akihabara station. I mean, the Time for Homemade Curry doesn't seem like a super high-class establishment to me (it's not dingy, but it's still a vending-machine-ticket bar seating curry place), but I somehow their katsu is just... "Viva." (sorry that was a quote that only Jiuna will get, and may not even like due to me abusing it a bit several years ago) Anyways, lunch was pretty good, and afterwards we played a short bit of badminton because we didn't even have enough people for 2v2 handiball. Another person eventually showed up, so we could play two games of 2v2 handiball, and I must say, I really enjoy it. I can rampage around as much as I want without gouging out people's eyes or breaking various bits of their bodies! Having a good time with 2v2 handiball also means that I'm really, really uncomfortable right after lunch though. I even bring a different change of clothes for handiball, but it doesn't matter, since it's quite warm here it takes forever to cool down and my regular clothes get a little... soupy. D: Ugh.
In the afternoon I implemented 4 of the 5 classifiers described in the paper it took me all morning to read. I can see where my strengths lie. >_< There's an undiscovered bug in the Multivariate Gaussian Naive Bayes classifier right now, but the other 3 are looking pretty good (famous last words). I am rather happy with myself, as today marks the first time I consciously thought through how I was going to write my code and decided that I wanted to use a closure, and so was able to use Ruby's lambda expressions to avoid making an ugly, ugly instance variable in my class definition. Unfortunately, it was not necessary by what I would guess would be "Ruby philosophy", but please excuse me if I want to knock down the computational complexity of my code by an entire power of n. D:< I've used Ruby's lambda expressions before, but only because they don't appear to have a more basic way to get behaviour akin to passing a function pointer. Therefore I now feel cool for being like "gee, how do I get the context of this function from here to over there...? OH I KNOW!" I swear it's exciting, you guys... ;D
At 5:15 ish, Kabutoya-san told me he had to leave for a party for a coworker that was leaving a project that he's a part of, so I was left on my own for the last hour of the day. >_< Not that it matters much, because I talk to Kabutoya-san about work maybe once or twice a day, and rarely for much other than demonstrating my work or asking for more. I think that will change quite a bit once I get into material that's more unfamiliar to me. However, this meant that I could work as late as I wanted! BUT TODAY WAS THE ONLY DAY I DIDN'T HAVE DINNER WAITING FOR ME AUGHH... Kabutoya-san totally sniped me! I was almost laughing out loud at the fact that the one day I could work late without him kicking me out was the day that I needed to get my own dinner (and, as fate would have it, I reached a pretty logical breaking point in my work at about 6:15). I'm impressed by Kabutoya-san's elite kenshu-sei (that's me) management ninja skills, and I'm currently making wavedashing motions by myself in my room for you guys. <3
After getting back to Dasaiyashi I went to the Yokosan to pick up some curry-korokke to tide me over until I got to Yokochuu. I hopped on a bus and headed straight for Yokochuu, which of course took forever. >_< With the Yokosan trip and changing out of my work clothes and everything, I ended up getting Pepper Lunch in Yokochuu at like, 8pm. Diuuuu... I walked into a the store, and it was alarmingly full of Japanese people. I was going to start panicking and calling a paranormal investigator or something, but once I sat down a whole ton of black people showed up, and so I knew I wasn't in the twilight zone. The family that was there who had a pretty cute/crazy kid who suddenly yelled at his incredibly disinterested mother "Mom! I'm twitching again!" and then proceeded to go totally wild in his seat at one point during my meal. His "twitching" was incredibly fake, and his mom's reaction was so deadpan it was really, really hard not to laugh, but his dad looked super buff and is probably affiliated with the US Navy, so I refrained from doing anything that could be misconstrued (ok maybe it wouldn't be misconstruing anything...) as laughing at his wacky kid.
I finally went and checked the pachinko/slot place nearest the station that claimed to have GAME in the basement (yeah, and the puppies are in your van, right?), but I did not have high hopes. Of course once I got close enough, I saw their Project Diva poster that I had somehow missed all this time. Derp. And so I found an arcade in Yokochuu that has a Project Diva machine which was all mine for like, 5 rounds. I still haven't beaten Moon on Extreme, which makes me want to put kittens and butterflies in a blender. D:< I'm not trying to get into med school, please do not make me get 80% to pass the damn song! I left because I ran out of 100円 coins (and more importantly self esteem, as it turned out I actually still had one coin left), and because it was getting a little late and I didn't want to get into the period of time when buses take forever to come.
Apparently I was already firmly in that time period, much to my chagrin, as I waited like, FOREVER for a bus to come... Busses with numbers I never even knew existed went by, but none bound for Dasaiyashi... After an eternity, I got on a bus, and we promptly got stuck in construction-related traffic. D:< Needless to say, I was glad that I got a seat, that I had my music player with me, and that the people around me weren't heavily perfumed or anything. I got home after quite some time on the bus and headed up to my room to chat briefly with Mom and Jiuna and check e-mail and blog.
I will probably go to Akihabara tomorrow, as I want to try buying earphones, a micro SD card, an iron and if I can find a cheap one, an ethernet cable. Of course, this is all an excuse just to get myself into Akiba, where I will promptly blow my whole day attempting to beat up virtual moon-princess schoolgirls with my virtual vampire-hunting nun (Melty Blood, for the confused). ;D
With that, I will bid you adieu for now, and get some beauty sleep (gotta look good for the smoky, dimly lit arcades full of other nerds...).
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