Week Notes: 26

Jul 28, 2022 20:23 · 381 words · 2 minutes read weekly-reviews

Here’s an interesting quote I saw from someone’s mail signature:

Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts.

Reviewed and merged #96 - some enhancements with a rust re-write of some correlations work. Not perfect, but it seems to work.
Submitted a patchset for parsing some csv files that contain data from experiments. The end-goal is to have a generalized way of inputting this data inside GN2 [lmdb+SQL+RDF]. Initially, a lot of this work had been exploratory; working out what that data means and how typically people in labs collect data and how that fits into the GN2 infrastracture. The reviews - code - were really useful: avoid mutations when you can - let it be a last resort; and some scheme gotchas like use match in favour of car, cdr and friends.
I’ve committed to writing GN2/3 (and any other GN-related project) every day and seek feedback. This will help me avoid rabbit holes, and also force me to prioritise what I work on. Over the weekends, I’ll be hacking on write-ups wrt my proposal which is strongly coupled to my work in GN.

Did and submitted some assignment in good time.
Had our last Dissertation Seminars class. Ahead of the class, I handed in my proposal. You can read it here. I’m awaiting feedback for this. I hope to get an official supervisor from Strathmore University soon.

Didn’t do any much reading :(

In one of my evenings, I got invited to the Nairobi Garage at Karen for an after-office hours hangout. The space is quite huge and scenic. I got to meet interesting people.
Went to the Nairobi planetorium with some friends. Afterwards, we hanged out at some Japanese food space.
My partner came back from their (Coast) trip.
During a dear one’s birthday [after-work/school hours], I went to some joint close the Nairobi Garage. Accidentally bumped into old-school hip-hop and matatu-graffiti artists.