did I mention the bird eggs all hatched 6 days ago??
they started out looking like the stuff out of nightmares. Here’s a bunch of stills from videos. (We also have the other view of the mom/dad coming in and feeding. But I chose ones here that kind of showcase the feathers coming in)
i have mostly given up on internships which frees up my mind to FREAK TF OUT about turning something in for NeurIPS in May 19th.
ahhh
okay so i have at least submitted 12 apps, so …
+ have started on codewars.com which is fun b/c you can see other people’s answers after! also super reality check i am not as good at coding as i thought lol
the inaudible hunt I helped organize / wrote for went well, almost 50 team/people completed the hunt
tomatoe plants are growing bigger finally but they are also yellowing out. nitrogen deficiency, underwater, or some bacterial infestation? they’re getting chewed on but not sure by what
roses are doing ok
https://primer.picoctf.org this is fun always meant to learn more about CTF
PicoCTF: Let learning happen through exploration. The largest cybersecurity hacking contest for middle and high school students has expanded to help learners of all experience levels.
https://picoctf.org/ (For the RSA section challenge question: is the private key 4966306280016000? for phi = (p-1)*(q-1). The solution is not given :'( )
duckietown arrived. noted that back in stock on okdo… waste of $70 T__T to get it shipped from HK. however, I could not have known. ready to livestream my experience with it. “mit grad attempts duckietown course with dad. how many ducks will they run over?”
also omg i got my 2nd moderna shot on monday, so close to fully vax yayyyyy . definitely was out of it the day after, all i wanted to do was sleep, got up for an hour and was exhausted. day after that was just a little headachy and sleepy. v-safe is a disaster, does not work on my phone inexplicably.
tried to get drs appointment now that i have health insurance (thanks obama) failed b/c all the dr’s are busy RIP. i should try again.
my rent situation for summer was under control and now it is not, person backed out on me 🙁 now contemplating, for $2500/mo i could live in penthouse? i feel like i lived that already overnighting at northeastern in the robotics 5th floor lab already lol
goals: finish book , start on basement. automatic mushroom mister.
oh we ate the mushrooms! they tasted like MUSHROOM STOCK maybe needed to boil-rinse once first. not sure a second flush will grow, looking a little moldy
so pessimistic about the future. gotta remember there will be unexpected happy points too.
what was i passionate about anyway? i kind of fell into grasping. it’s cool, but the immediate applications in helping people are a while away.
changed my desktop to chinese (in ubuntu 20.04). box.com PDF render looks eldritch. automatic internationalization gone wrong (this happens to all PDFs in box).
looks fine under dropbox preview, or opening directly in browser. maybe i’ll report it as a bug
that last post was way too depressing to be my most recent post, mostly because i posted a side project of mine to reddit where i use this same (old) username, so i’ll post some birds here instead
in other bird news, there has been a sharp decline in birds at my feeders. literally went from 10-15 bird visits a day to 0-1. i used to have fill up my feeders up every two days, now it’s been 5 days and it’s still fill to the brim. i wonder if the ground warmed up and they’re all eating larvae now? they’re all sitting on eggs instead of courting? i used to have a possibly-couple pair of house wrenches literally sit on the feeder for 10-15 minutes just having a buffet o__o didn’t realize i’d miss them.
at least i still have these little baby birds to look forward to each day! although since they are there all day, i no longer have the incentive to wake up by 8am every day anymore.
also we have a mushroom kit growing with some ferocity
also have some sprouts planted, we re-filled the raised bed. 50-50 garden soil and top soil.
so i’m not sure exactly why i keep accumulating accounts and (user)name. i think part of it is some sort of FU to all the companies and industries who keep collecting data, it’s like well at the least i’ll make it so you have to employ data scientists to have to munge my accounts together lol. the other part is complicated but eh so’s the rest of life, otherwise it’d be boring right?
right? ;__;
other cool finds of the day:
oh yea the links came from this talk which was p. good too… there’s the main topic of the talk but also things I never thought about: replacing calculus with linear algebra as the intro university math class !
the cause of this “maybe i’ll clean up my blog homepage” is that i helped write a puzzlehunt which accidentally found a lot of signups (i feel bad to have dragged my fellow puzzlewriters in, but in my defense, there are zero comments on most of the posts to that subreddit, and the puzzlehunt calendar is super plain and unassuming also… I thought max ten extra signups of which 5 might show up…)
so if you’re into puzzles (which have been taking up more of my time lately than my MITERS-quality projects??? since when did this become a significant side hobby???)