Cerrisian Blog

Yay!

I just did the last changes necessary for my newly factored ontology bridger to actually give results!

The code is clean, good unit test coverage. The last things that needed to be changed were whitespace stripping and trimming issues.

The “walking skeleton” is assembled! All I need to do know is attach a command line interface and increase the number of features and other supporting stuff.

What do I loathe doing and what do I love? This is what I need to keep tracking of to focus on my strengths. I need to write it in a notepad after every time it happens at work or school or in my life.

Things that are work related that are extremely pleasurable:

• Working through the night with my website partner on the Montessori website, draining but feels so good!
• Doing test driven and incremental development
• Making prototypes in python, watching them be demonstrated without a hitch. Watching software I wrote work robustly in front of an audience.
• Climbing to the peak of Section 16 and looking over the city
• Drawing at the Fourth of July at USAFA
• Making portraits of strangers
• Writing a good story
• Teaching a lecture
• Helping people with software development techniques, if they’re receptive.

Things I loathe

• Doing pencil pushing computer administration
• Doing repetitive code development. Code with bad design, maybe?
• Cutting corners to meet a deadline with a code project

Things I might like

• Creating elaborate technical diagrams in Inkscape
• Giving advice on how to effectively do life change (Switch, Follow your strengths)

Friday the 13th began the time of conversations. REMEMBER THIS CHANGE

The two most important parts of a home are flow and the size of the living spaces — bedrooms and living room.

Reddit clone with smart text tags of articles — spider pages and tag it with the most interesting words based on document/corpus word count. Or entropy — something like that. Use something similar to the “semantic zooming” algorithm to have the most interesting words pop out.

Real Estate listings aggregation — alerts on new real estate listings appearing in neighborhoods

Mechanical Turk based proof reading/critiquing etc.

• Practice self discipline to increase the reservoir
• Increase blood glucose levels
• Use a motivational incentive