R Studio is so good!

Yesterday for work I catalogued all the queries being run by the site, and wrote a description of what each one does in English. I asked C for clarification on how the international data will fit in with our current approach, and got one weird answer and a couple good ideas for other people to ask. I got proper data source and description links from Jg, which uncovered a problem: we measure and predict % of doctors visits involving influenza-like-illness (ILI), but the European CDC publishes count of ILI doctors visits per unit of population. No bueno. I talked to L, who convinced me we could fit the curves into our existing model regardless, then to Jm, to help her figure out the right format for the data from South Korea and get it into the database. I also have a message waiting for A and Jg when they come in today offering to help do the same with the ECDC data. In between chats I finished up the CUDA upgrade on the final GPU machine, and spent the rest of the day running up a prototype aesthetic fit of the ECDC data from Italy into our current display. For this week aesthetic is enough; we have to have something ready for when we send out the new prediction assignments Friday. We can do a proper model fit next week. I documented the day’s decisions in Slack and called it good.

Over breakfast and lunch, more motor controller research. People seem to like taking apart treadmills, and the speed controller in them is usually a KBIC. Problem with that for sewing application is that they need load to depend on speed and speed alone, whereas for sewing the load has a wobble each time the needle encounters the garment, and for thick layers it might be a big wobble. Need more research to know if that’s enough to cause something to burn out or not.

Dinner alone; P held his evening class over Zoom. I made a sortof biryani to see if I could avoid the looming nausea of the last couple nights by shaking things up. Success!

Oh and I finished the laundry. Busy day.

DS9 and crossword and sleep. Dreamt a lot. Naps with fluffy dogs, people pitching in to fix a rutted driveway, the old dance studio in Larimer, bathroom remodels, innovations in flooring, peanut skins everywhere, banning a truly odious pair of teens for life and convincing the AI receptionist to enforce it, Olympic axe throwing, calico fabric.