Curious about if this is worth making into it’s own weekly thread. Curious as to what’s being worked on, in personal life, work life or just “cool stuff”. I would like people to share, after all we happen to have similar fields of interest and similar fields we are trying to tackle.
Projects sub-thread:
What are you working on this week (a few words or a serious breakdown)(if you have a list feel free to dump it here)?
What do you want to be asked about next week? What do you expect to have done by then?
Have you noticed anything odd or puzzling to share with us?
Are you looking for someone with experience in a specific field to save you some search time?
What would you describe are your biggest bottlenecks?
vulnerability, circling (relational therapy stuff) investigating the ideas around it.
trialling supplements: Creatine, Protein, Citrulline malate. Adding in Vitamins: C, D, Fish oil, Calcium, Magnesium, Iron, Distant future trials: 5HTP, SAMe. preliminary SAMe and 5HTP were that they make me feel like crap.
promoting the voluntary euthanasia party of NSW (Australia) (political reform of the issue)
emptying my schedule to afford me more “free” time in which to write up posts.
contemplating book topic ideas.
trying to get better routines going, contemplating things like “I only sleep at home”, and cancelling all meeting and turning off all connected media for a week.
my biggest bottlenecks are myself (sometimes focus) and being confident at what will have a return VS not have a return. (hence many small experiements)
yes. This talk seems to imply value from being vulnerable in social settings to connect with people. I am experimenting to see if it’s worth it or better.
This may seem obvious to me but I sleep at the houses of partners, my parents house, a property I was doing some work for ~1.5 hrs away from home. The point is that I have less control over the bed, bedroom setup, my sleep and my morning routine if I am not in the bed that I engineered the routine around.
Translating a novel (really, a collection of essays) about WWII massacres of Jews in Kyiv & the rise of neo-nazism in post-Soviet republics (and much in between). It will take me a few months, probably, since this is a side job.
Overall impression: the past is easier to deal with, because it is too horrible. Imagine 10^5 deaths. Although I unfortunately know the place where it happened, & he includes personal stories (more like tidbits), so the suspension of disbelief takes some effort to maintain. But the ‘present’ part—a series of the author’s open letters to mass-media and various officials about pogroms and suchlike that went unpunished—is hard: he keeps saying the same over and over. (Literally. And his style is heavy on the reader.) After a while the eye glazes over & notices only that the dates and the addresses change, but the content doesn’t, except for the growing list of people who had not answered.
Just had not answered.
Now this is—easy to imagine.
Maybe this isn’t odd, but I had thought it would be the other way around.
Among the listed people who provided medical help to the party and state leaders, there was an abrupt addition—V. V. Zakusov, professor of pharmacology. He didn’t take part directly in the leaders’ treatment—he was at first only called in for an opinion, and given to sign the conclusion about the prescriptions that the ‘doctors-murderers’ had issued to hasten their patients’ death. Vasili Vasilyevitch Zakusov took the feather and, well aware of what lied ahead, wrote this: “The best doctors in the world will sign such prescriptions.” In that moment he stopped being an expert and became a suspect. In jail, even after tortures, he didn’t withdraw his conclusion.
a graphing library for python (ggplot2′s conceptual model with a pythonic API)
writing cliffs notes for Order Without Law (a book about how people settle disputes without turning to the legal system)
learning ukelele with Yousician (currently making extremely slow progress on the “double stops” lesson, I find it really hard to consistently strum two strings at once)
trying to write an essay about how heuristics can sometimes be anti-inductive (they become less accurate the more they’re applied), and how we don’t really seem to have any cultural awareness of this problem even though it seems important
I might have the last one complete by next week, but the others are fairly long-term projects.
I’m working on a podcast read-through of the web serial Worm. We’ve just put out the fifth episode of the series. It’s becoming pretty popular by our standards.
Basically went and made the dataset five times bigger and got… a mediocre improvement.
The next step is to figure out Connectionist Temporal Classification and attempt to implement Text-To-Speech with it. And somehow incorporate pitch recognition as well so I can create the next Vocaloid. :V
Also, because why not brag while I’m here, I have an attempt at an Earthquake Predictor in the works… right now it only predicts the high frequency, low magnitude quakes, rather than the low frequency, high magnitude quakes that would actually be useful… you can see the site where I would be posting daily updates if I weren’t so lazy...
Other than that… I was recently also working on holographic word vectors in the same vein as Jones & Mewhort (2007), but shelved that because I could not figure out how to normalize/standardize the blasted things reliably enough to get consistent results across different random initializations.
Oh, also was working on a Visual Novel game with an artist friend who was previously my girlfriend… but due to um… breaking up, I’ve had trouble finding the motivation to keep working on it.
Curious about if this is worth making into it’s own weekly thread. Curious as to what’s being worked on, in personal life, work life or just “cool stuff”. I would like people to share, after all we happen to have similar fields of interest and similar fields we are trying to tackle.
Projects sub-thread:
What are you working on this week (a few words or a serious breakdown)(if you have a list feel free to dump it here)?
What do you want to be asked about next week? What do you expect to have done by then?
Have you noticed anything odd or puzzling to share with us?
Are you looking for someone with experience in a specific field to save you some search time?
What would you describe are your biggest bottlenecks?
I am working on:
learning colemak
vulnerability, circling (relational therapy stuff) investigating the ideas around it.
trialling supplements: Creatine, Protein, Citrulline malate. Adding in Vitamins: C, D, Fish oil, Calcium, Magnesium, Iron, Distant future trials: 5HTP, SAMe. preliminary SAMe and 5HTP were that they make me feel like crap.
promoting the voluntary euthanasia party of NSW (Australia) (political reform of the issue)
emptying my schedule to afford me more “free” time in which to write up posts.
contemplating book topic ideas.
trying to get better routines going, contemplating things like “I only sleep at home”, and cancelling all meeting and turning off all connected media for a week.
my biggest bottlenecks are myself (sometimes focus) and being confident at what will have a return VS not have a return. (hence many small experiements)
You are working on vulnerability? I’m not sure I understand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o
yes. This talk seems to imply value from being vulnerable in social settings to connect with people. I am experimenting to see if it’s worth it or better.
Where else do you sleep?
This may seem obvious to me but I sleep at the houses of partners, my parents house, a property I was doing some work for ~1.5 hrs away from home. The point is that I have less control over the bed, bedroom setup, my sleep and my morning routine if I am not in the bed that I engineered the routine around.
Translating a novel (really, a collection of essays) about WWII massacres of Jews in Kyiv & the rise of neo-nazism in post-Soviet republics (and much in between). It will take me a few months, probably, since this is a side job.
Overall impression: the past is easier to deal with, because it is too horrible. Imagine 10^5 deaths. Although I unfortunately know the place where it happened, & he includes personal stories (more like tidbits), so the suspension of disbelief takes some effort to maintain. But the ‘present’ part—a series of the author’s open letters to mass-media and various officials about pogroms and suchlike that went unpunished—is hard: he keeps saying the same over and over. (Literally. And his style is heavy on the reader.) After a while the eye glazes over & notices only that the dates and the addresses change, but the content doesn’t, except for the growing list of people who had not answered.
Just had not answered.
Now this is—easy to imagine.
Maybe this isn’t odd, but I had thought it would be the other way around.
″ A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic”—a meme
Ah, but what if you have walked above their bones?
You always walk over bones, it’s just that you know of some and don’t know of others.
I don’t know how you do it, but you seldom fail to cheer me up. Even a little bit.
Thanks.
From the book, on ‘The Doctors’ plot’ of 1953:
Among the listed people who provided medical help to the party and state leaders, there was an abrupt addition—V. V. Zakusov, professor of pharmacology. He didn’t take part directly in the leaders’ treatment—he was at first only called in for an opinion, and given to sign the conclusion about the prescriptions that the ‘doctors-murderers’ had issued to hasten their patients’ death. Vasili Vasilyevitch Zakusov took the feather and, well aware of what lied ahead, wrote this: “The best doctors in the world will sign such prescriptions.” In that moment he stopped being an expert and became a suspect. In jail, even after tortures, he didn’t withdraw his conclusion.
I’m working on
a graphing library for python (ggplot2′s conceptual model with a pythonic API)
writing cliffs notes for Order Without Law (a book about how people settle disputes without turning to the legal system)
learning ukelele with Yousician (currently making extremely slow progress on the “double stops” lesson, I find it really hard to consistently strum two strings at once)
trying to write an essay about how heuristics can sometimes be anti-inductive (they become less accurate the more they’re applied), and how we don’t really seem to have any cultural awareness of this problem even though it seems important
I might have the last one complete by next week, but the others are fairly long-term projects.
Reminds me, we didn’t have a bragging thread for some time.
I think I’d like to see this as a separate topic (probably monthly, because such things take time).
However, just do as you wish, and then we’ll see how it works.
I’m working on a podcast read-through of the web serial Worm. We’ve just put out the fifth episode of the series. It’s becoming pretty popular by our standards.
I recently made an attempt to restart my Music-RNN project:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-Ewp2FNJeNJp1K1PF_7NCjt2ZdmsoOiB
Basically went and made the dataset five times bigger and got… a mediocre improvement.
The next step is to figure out Connectionist Temporal Classification and attempt to implement Text-To-Speech with it. And somehow incorporate pitch recognition as well so I can create the next Vocaloid. :V
Also, because why not brag while I’m here, I have an attempt at an Earthquake Predictor in the works… right now it only predicts the high frequency, low magnitude quakes, rather than the low frequency, high magnitude quakes that would actually be useful… you can see the site where I would be posting daily updates if I weren’t so lazy...
http://www.earthquakepredictor.net/
Other than that… I was recently also working on holographic word vectors in the same vein as Jones & Mewhort (2007), but shelved that because I could not figure out how to normalize/standardize the blasted things reliably enough to get consistent results across different random initializations.
Oh, also was working on a Visual Novel game with an artist friend who was previously my girlfriend… but due to um… breaking up, I’ve had trouble finding the motivation to keep working on it.
So many silly projects… so little time.