Mikayla @mikaylamic@wandering.shop

He has a dog bed, but apparently this is more comfortable.

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate ordinary differential equations?

Today is one of those days where you read one line of a paper a more attentively than you did before, and all your progress comes crashing to a halt. #gradschool

.....and everything is unstable and trying to go to infinity.

Time for a lunch break, I think.

Quit the original simulation and now am running it to 14 seconds to see why it just grinds to a halt at 13.9ish seconds. #gradschool

My simulation is not frozen, but after processing the first almost 14 seconds of the 20 second simulation fairly quickly, it is now taking about 5 seconds per timestep. The timestep is 0.001 seconds.

*grumbles*

#gradschool

I presented my proposed schedule for what I'm going to accomplish this summer to my supervisors today.

Their response was "You're going to get all this done this summer?"

...I might have overcommitted myself.

#gradschool

I have admitted defeat and split the algorithms.

At least I can reuse the simulink model and just edit the matlab script calling it.

#gradschool

I know I should just split this algorithm into two separate algorithms instead of trying to do everything in the same matlab script, but I don't want to. #gradschool

...or I was just running that test with unreasonable values.

Now it works!

Update: It failed a test, but is still closer than it's been before.

If this passes all the tests, then I can bring a working algorithm and a progress update to my supervisors on Wednesday, so we can decide on my summer goals so I'm on track to graduate on time (January).

I haven't throughly tested it yet, but the quick checks I've done are promising.

I kind of promised my supervisors that getting it working for Wednesday was feasible unless something new and unexpected went wrong.

This is still reproducing old work, but it's been 8 months trying to get this working.

*whispers very quietly to not scare it into breaking*

I think my algorithm is working.
#gradschool

I feel better about having no idea what's going on with a paper when it took my 3 supervisors 15 minutes to figure out what a single figure was trying to say. #gradschool

My school email inbox is definitely in "the students have a quiz this week" status.

Doctor Who podcasters, fans, and writers are doing a live commentary of a Classic Who story to raise money for organizations committed to ending gun violence.

Details are here: http://www.realitybombpodcast.com/whoagainstguns/

#WhoAgainstGuns

The thing I'm really learning TAing dynamics this term is that I really want to spell acceleration with a double L.

Report writers, if you spent 600 pages writing a report on how your algorithm works, maybe spend some of those words on how you derived your giant rotation matrix? Please? #gradschool

I was sitting in a chair, and Mac kept trying to get in my lap (he’s not allowed on furniture). So I sat on the floor, and now I am trapped.

Someone please come refill my tea?
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