September 2: Back to Programming
Getting more settled in at work means larger tasks, and therefore less variation within and between days. That means I will probably not have too much to blog about in the work front in the near future, as I think the next couple of days will just be coding. Sorry for those of you who were enjoying the riveting pyrotechnic mathematics. ;D
I got up on time today and ate dorm breakfast of a pork mixture with celery, a stewed vegetable mixture, featuring celery, and a Japanese-style omlette with ground beef and celery in the middle. Oh yeah, and there was rice and miso soup with celery in it. >_< It was quite remarkable, and I had to try quite hard to prevent myself from laughing every time I discovered celery in yet another dish. I must say I thought of Dad and that "obedient ingredient" show he talks about from time to time, but this celery was actually rather unruly. It was crunchy and made everything taste like it had celery in it, not so obedient at all. >_< Surprisingly, I quite enjoyed the, ahem, thematically unified breakfast.
I got to work on time and got Kabutoya-san to check my parameter estimation and Gibbs update equations. They were all in order, though he notified me that his original plan for how to generate a part of the model was no longer an option, as it had been proven to have poor performance in practice. O_O I'm to spend some time thinking about how to encode information about words in metadata that is not covered by a) the meaning of the word, or b) how it is used. Uhh... I hope I'm allowed to not come up with an answer for this one. >_<
I spent the whole day coding my model in a mixture of Ruby and C++. I am kind of worried about the fact that neither of my co-op positions have involved anyone actually looking at my code. I think I probably have appalling habits and ways of doing things that will shock and horrify whoever gets to first see my code. "What do you mean that I'm not supposed to use macro replacement functions to allocate and initialize my two dimensional arrays?" D: To be honest, I'm mostly doing that one for fun though. ;D
At lunch I ate hiyashi wakame soba and played handiball. For some reason I was quite good today, which I hope is the beginning of a trend. Playing well meant that people set the ball for me more often (including a girl on the opposite team, by accident of course) and so I got to practice my "spikes" (the quotation marks are because it feels heretical to call them that when the net is so low). Seeing more play also meant I got better exercise, so it would appear that there is really no reason for me to want to not be better at handiball (derp).
In the afternoon was... more coding. My recommender is perhaps 70% together, but I have come across some questions to ask Kabutoya-san about the model which could possibly necessitate more work than I can expect at this point. I am not looking forward to debugging this one, as the dataset is larger and the model more complicated than all my previous recommenders. >_< Oh well, if I had to make another of the simpler recommenders, I think I would be "driven 'round the bend", to quote my linear algrebra prof from first year.
I left work at about 6:30, and walked home in the somewhat blustery winds that were apparently typ(h)oon-driven. It was pleasant to have the breeze, as today was on the hot end of things. It's nice and cool in my room right now, which, as far as my experience dictates, means another typ(h)oon is indeed on the way. It is getting dark quite early here, which gave me the lovely experience of walking straight up to a "leaf" and having it run right by my foot before realizing it was actually the largest spider I had ever seen in my entire life. D: Euuuuughghhghghhghgh!!!!!!! There were actual leaves blowing everywhere across the sidewalk, with some hitting me as well, so needless to say I was very relieved when I got to the Takeyama intersection (where the trees stop), by which point I was pretty much a nervous wreck. >_< Bleaghghghghgh.... The things I do for 1.7 plays of Mushihime...
I got home and took my grapefruit out of the freezer and put in a bucket of water before going down to dinner. Unfortunately, Oohashi-san was nowhere to be found. I waited for about 15 minutes, thinking she'd gone out to get something or other, when another dorm resident came in, walked up to the door into the kitchen and yelled "KON BAN WA!" (good evening) only a little sharply, which caused her to appear within 10 seconds. >_< I don't think I will yell it quite so loud as he did if this ever happens again, but it's a good thing to know about.
Dinner was some pork salad thing, which was pretty good, and some lump of somewhat salty and dry fish, which was not so good. >_< Celery was nowhere to be found. I went back up to my room and ate my frozen grapefruit and the rest of my matcha ice cream (for better or for worse, I needed something to drown out the fish haha).
Anyways, I'm off to a terrible start on the sleep front this week, so I'm going to end today's blog post right now and bid you goodnight. Night!
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