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Yesterday I met with D to show him around the covidcast database and get advice on how to rewrite it to make it possible to scale up by 20x, which is one of our goals for the next fifteen months. I went to the team leads meeting and presented the Engineering goals for the next two months, which dragged on an extra half hour past the nominal end of the meeting largely because it was the end of the day and I was too exhausted to cut short R’s questions. The rest of the day went to progress on the BIGINT retrospective.

Hilariously, right before my meetings were supposed to start, a transformer blew and we lost power. I managed both meetings on a wireless hotspot, and P was lovely and ran me up an extra charge battery to make sure my phone didn’t conk out. Power came back around halfway through team leads.

Dinner solo, Atlantis, crossword when P got out of class, snack, sleep. Dreamt of carefully and precisely wrapping an iron in satin.

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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.

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