Who can say no, and who has to say yes
May. 9th, 2020 07:02 amYesterday the aggregations were totally horked. Ultimately it turned out I never did submit Thursday’s stderr updates to the server, but it took us all day to be confident in that and understand a couple other weird components (some of the worst diffs had their old value approximately equal to their stderr, and the new stderr 10x larger, which seemed very suspicious). Meanwhile, decided on Slack to release only the new deaths and cases signals at noon and push the combined signal to next week. Met with indicators, and A and I delivered our plan for release schedules and task management and got no objections. Group meeting was very efficient, and A gave a slightly quicker version of the spiel there too. Met briefly with RR and R to figure out what to do about the 7-day trend indicator for the deaths and cases signals, and decided to disable it for this release. Lunch, somewhat abbreviated. Went to M’s thesis meeting; we’re still debugging why we can’t seem to get this model to overfit. Spent an hour running variations of the validation code on aggregations; each run takes 8 minutes so in the gaps I built up git issues for the next release, set milestones, and organized labels based on the new rules for releases. Finally had some overlap with T’s free time and gave him a call — I’ll be staying with Delphi for the summer. I despise being poached but these are special circumstances. Can’t really tell the pandemic to hold off for a month or two while I train a replacement. Went to team leads meeting and finalized the details of all the approval processes. Finished up planning with A for the next release and called it a day. Should largely be a weekend off.
Dinner, crossword, DS9, snack, sleep. Dreamt of shabby bazaars, dysfunctional local government, gameified DIY duplication of dream-world popular fast food franchises a la Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom, murder mysteries, steam trains, drag races.
Network Effect continues excellent.
We received the gift basket from R: pears, nuts, crackers, and cheese. The pears are gorgeous, P will take care of the crackers and cheese, and I get the nuts because cashews.