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Yesterday I started a new crochet sample and did a pile of ambivalent research on period sewing manuals. I’m looking for clues on handling bias on delicate fabrics, since I’m not super pleased with the machine staystitching. For the next one I think I will try using hand running stitches, and if that doesn’t work, some kind of starch or stabilizer either in the fabric or underneath as a tear-away thing.

At work I got all my tests to pass! Hooray! So I ported the last bunch of unit tests from the old format, dealing with the last few sensor/effectors. Found an infinite loop in the state machine, so that’s next. Met with F and M and contributed “treat it like a parameter we’ll want to tune and plot later” answers to a bunch of implementation-choice questions. There’s also a lot of “doing it right would be arduous but that’s not always necessary in neural nets, so we’re going to try the easy but dubious way first and revisit if that doesn’t work” happening in this project.

Meeting ran late so P picked me up and drove us home. Sat for a bit, then dinner, crossword, Legends, sleep. Avoided the bedtime panic attack by having water instead of snack, but not sure that’s sustainable.

Yesterday I went in early for a talk by someone at Michigan who’s doing
research extremely relevant to our work, which was fascinating— their
driving focus is on cognitive architecture, which lets them layer system
learning at several levels of abstraction. I joined a subset of T’s group
having lunch with the speaker, and had a grand time. Very personable guy,
and a CMU alum from the 80s.

Spent the rest of the day polishing the draft type system proposal, and
sent it off to D for feedback and to T in lieu of our weekly progress
report meeting, which got unexpectedly et by the president’s office.

After work I made rice and stuff with thyme, and P remembered how to make
pizza.

I contacted the woman who runs one of the IBS groups I follow about joining
her clientele, as she’s opened her book for a bit. Alas, I forgot to check
her time zone— predictably she’s in Brisbane, which makes scheduling any
kind of synchronous meeting quite awkward. We’ll see.

Yesterday I finished spinning the Romney-mohair singles. At work I started
ripping apart the android app into separate concerns; not fun but necessary
if I want to make it obvious where the middleware needs to be installed.
After work I did a turn through the garden and picked beans and a couple of
the new white sweet pepper variety I’m growing this year. They have a mild
flavor, not sure they’re worth it. Spent the evening looking up kick and
treadle wheel designs. The industrially available design space is a lot
richer in the UK for human-powered wheels, which is not terribly surprising
I suppose. The Leach wheel has been implemented as a pared-down,
powder-coated metal version for both standing and sitting at £250. There’s
another variety called the SAVIAC which has a much more complex mechanism
but accepts gearing; nice for centering without having to treadle like a
panicked weasel.

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