There was cake and everything

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Yesterday I met with indicators and introduced our second new intern W. I went to the big group meeting and we went over all the tickets for the 1.3 release next week, checking off what will be ready vs what won’t. Viz also gave a great rundown of the solutions they’ve been pursuing for displaying counts data, which is challenging because urban areas behave so much differently than rural ones. I’ll be joining the weekly viz meeting to help give them better awareness of what the priority tasks are and why starting next week. The afternoon went to checking the output of the new F pipeline against the old, and as expected the community signal does okay but the household ones are a mess. To help with debugging I ran the synthetic dataset through the old pipeline and posted the results to the thread, so we don’t have to keep bouncing back to a CMU person to check T’s work. The rest of the day was debugging the individual responses, which turns out to mostly be a missing set of full-complete weights files; and then writing a thing to drop duplicate tokens from the weights files after May 5 when the incremental bug came online. I went to a meeting with the PIs and we discussed staffing; we need at least one stellar project manager compatible with academia to take on the forecasting team and/or take on the whole of Delphi so A can handle forecasting, and a couple of developers for viz.

P went to the garden and the coop in the morning and got red lentils, puffed rice, yogurt, half and half, cheese, pizza sauce, salad vinegar, and the most gorgeous rhubarb I’ve ever seen. He was nervous about the garden because the person running it is one he’s had conflicts with before, but it turned out to be a different person with the same first name! So all good.

Dinner, crossword, then we put together a Who Cooks For You order and got mesclun, romaine, radishes, and seedlings: rhubarb, peppers, cherry tomatoes, and paste tomatoes. DS9, snack, sleep; dreamt of lion anthros, J, baseball camp (???), and two of the older ladies in my department over the years falling in love.

I finished Bone Witch, which uses a “accelerate off the end of the last page” approach to endings I don’t particularly care for. It was just turning decent, so hopefully this book was the author learning to write and the next ones will pick up stylistically where she left off.