On Tuesday, after three consecutive days of cycling and four rides in six days with running thrown in, my legs are so tired that I can barely get out of bed. Nonetheless I get out of bed at 5:55 am and get dressed for rain and walk to the grocery store for a minor set of supplies. Because it is so early, I can chit-chat for a period of time with my favorite cashier before trudging on home. Today I implement the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) model reduction method throughout the integrated Artificial Intelligence process that I've been writing. In theory, this method pickes out the most important features and allows one to reduce the size and time of calculations downstream. I get the PCA fully implemented but the results are not as promising as I had hoped for. The process runs faster but the accuracy has dissipated. Maybe I have to play with some of the parameters like the 95% variance that I'm capturing with the PCA vectors. During the morning I take some time to work the abdominals, core muscles, lower back, and biceps. I haen't done this workout for quite a while and will probably be sore on Thurdsay. But where's the rain? We've been promised rain throughout this entire week. And I cycled intensely for today off because it was supposed to rain. But even at noon the sun is shining though dark gray clouds continue to threaten rain. In the afternoon I watch some Netflix and take inventory of some of the hobby hardware that I have and see if I can resurrect one of these projects.
There is rain on Wednesday so no bicycle riding or running. During a short break I bundle up and carry an umbrella and recyclable grocery bag and walk to the grocery store for some supplies. During the day I finish integrated Artificial Intelligence process including the use and ranking of Principal Coordinates. When I try to run the program the runs using the Principal Coordinate ANalysis (PCA) vector transformations do not realize the results that I expected. I take a break to lift weights (relatively heavy at this stage in my rehab) and grab a quick shower. While I'm in the shower I'm using my homemade cleaner of vinegar, dish soap, and water to scrub away soap stains. And later I watch some Netflix. Later at night I continue to ponder the PCA results and want to tule out an error in my transformations so I parametrically increase the variance captured by the PCA (which means retaining more PCA vectors). I don't finish but I'm on the right track.
On Thursday in the wet conditions i get out for a ninety minute run/walk - the longest run/walk since before the bicycle accident. During this ru/walk I probably look a bit silly because I'm carrying a folded umbrella in case the rain starts pouring down and I wold have to scramble for home. I get cleaned up and continue with the PCA vector/variance thread and when I capturee 99.9% of the sysem variance, the PCA methodology produces the same results, more or less, as the full model. So my logic and coding is right on and perhaps this set of problems are not as well suited for a PCA model reduction as others are. I have vegetable soup for lunch and find a hole in the rain to walk to the liquor store for a big bottle of wine. (Normally I would drive to the groery store and liquor store during the wet winter, but I recently washed and waxed the World Rally Car and I don't want it to get wet - so I walk.) At home I start the laundry and then sit back with the wine, as I would typically do near the end of a calendar year, and see how well I've done on my income, spending, saving, and investing goals and results. I realize that I've done well at my goals except for spending $45,000 on fake teeth. (Yes, I have dental insurance and no it doesn't cover shit. So I'll drop the dental coverage soon.) Later I watch some Netflix and the football game. I have two web hosting tasks (unrelated to the integrated Artificial Intelligence process) that I need to do but I don't have the motivation to do these. For a while in the evening, when the rain is coming down in buckets, I go stand on my front porch and listen to and smell the rain. And then, having heard bits and pieces of some old EDM on television that was playing when I first started getting interested in it, I play some of that age EDM and recall those early days.
When I wake up on Friday I hear slight rain falling so I go back to sleep and stay in bed until 6:55 am. I read the news and markets and get in a pretty good workout for the abdominals, core muscles, lower back, and biceps. There appears to be a windown now where it will not rain, so I get to the library and get three new books, get to the ATM for both deposits and withdrawls, and get to CVS pharmacy. As I'm driving home there are a few droplets of rain that fall but nothing that will stick to the World Rally Car. In the afternoon is some Netflix and I cook spaghetti to carbo load for a Saturday morning bicycle ride.
I wait a bit on Saturday morning to go cycling to let the sun come up. It's only about a 15 minute wait, but I didn't want to be riding in the dark after it rained where there could be debris to run over. Near 6:30 am I get out the door and have a very good 80 kilometer ride up to the El Monte dam and back to home. Only in the last 10 km does my lower back get tired and I get mentally fatigued. (The lower back getting tired since I worked it out yesterday and earlier this week.) At home I use the lawnmower to pick up the leaves underneath the large tree in the backyard and warm up with a refreshing shower. Today I decide not to code and just watch the football games and get reading all of the books piled up. In the warmth of the afternoon I go hard prune a few more rose bushes and only have six to go. Unfortunately these last six are the largest and most overgrown of the bunch.
On both Christmas Eve and Christmas day I start with mountain bicycle rides to the old yacht club and back again. This is another streak of three consecutive riding days preceded by a long run. I always like to ride on Christmas morning to see fathers and mothers trying to show their sons and daughters how to ride their new bicycles. But today, for the first time in a long time, I don't see this situation being played out. But I'm out earlier than typical because we haven't had really cold weather this winter. Today is another purely football game because it's the holiday season and there isn't much going on.
I sleep late on Tuesday since there will be no ride or run. I run into sme webb hosting problems where my web hosting company has decided to deprecate and delete the primary interface between the Python programming language and their mySQL databases. Really? I know that they only reluctantly support Python, but this is ridiculous. I spend many hours on the phones with technical support and the best advice is to "buy my own server with this web hosting company and configure it exactly as you want". Well, if I'm going to buy my own server, it isn't going to be with you. Maybe frm the frustration of this incident, my lifts each have one more rep for every lift. Was this due to me adding strength or the frustration of the web hosting situation. I send out messages to friends and get their opinin as to what to do. ANd later I re-run some neural networks on my own PC (configured as I want it to be) in rder to verify some recent results. In the evening I turn on some stupid vigilante show which I know I will never finish. But it lets my mind wander about my web hosting situation.
I get out for a good road bicycle ride on Wednesday morning. I crank for 65 kilometers - trading off between pushing it and recovery. After a warming shower at home I've decided to replace all of my web hosting mySQL databases with temporary csv files so that I can buy time as to what to do. I just keep plugging away and it's 3pm by the time I have one converted (which served as the trail blazer for converting them all). The rest will go quickly and I should finish those on Thursday and then decide what to do. The overwhelming advice from friends is to get my own server and configure as I need it - rather than relying on a shared server configured in a generic fashion. Its a new thing for me and I'm a bit nervous about completely configuring my own server (as provided by a cloud vendor). I have fish and chips for dinner at 3:30 pm and though my weight has come down again, I'm not sure I'm going to want to eat again. This is not good. Not good at all!
On Thursday I have a very good ninety minute run/walk, mow the front yard, and pickup the leaves under the big tree in the backyard. After a shower I run errands for gasoline and groceries. Today I buy some different foods in hopes that they will taste better and I can stem my continuing weight loss. At home I convert the mySQL processes to csv files for now and buy me some time as to what to do about new web hosting. Since it is sunny, I do a minor trim on a tree and hang a trash barrel on the remaining branches in hopes of preventing the neighbor's cat from coming into my backyard. I take some tme to confirm that the return order of neural network designs is correct and I'm not sure that they are. So I write the code to correct this and get ready to study the effects. (Recall that that code was borrowed and I should have checkedit out earlier.) Later I just lose myself with the news and some Netflix.
It is supposed to rain on Saturday so I take the mountain bicycle out for a good ride on Friday and hope to recover for a long road bicycle ride on Sunday. At home I hard prune three more roses bushes since that's all of the room I have in the trash receptacle. I have three more of the largest rose bushes left to prune next week. I also lay down some weed preventative though I don't really know how well this works. After a shower I get to work on making sure the genetic algorithm is a) sorting the results properly to use the best results for generations, and 2) thinking about how to expand the use of the genetic algorithm in the neural networks. As some of thes runs proceed, which can take thrity minutes or more, I update all of the website for the end of the month (a couple of days early) and I also go through and make sure all of the websites copyright gets updated to 2024. And later I watchthe news and some Netflix and do some financial calculaions o close out the 2023 calendar year.
I wake up near 3am on Saturday morning and hear the expected rain coming down. I listen to the rain and enjoy the sound of it before falling back asleep. There's no ealry morning cycling or running today, so I stay in bed for an extra hour or so. I get started working on the genetic algorithm part of the integrated Artificial Intelligence because the code that I found to perform the genetic algorithm is a bit too basic and not general enough. I work for a couple of hours then go work the abdominals, lower back, core muscles, and biceps with an extra set thrown in. And then back to the genetic algorithm to make it more genereal and hence, better able to find an optimum solution. Later I watch some football including MY Detroit Lions XXXXX.
On New Year's Eve Sunday I intended t ride long, but I wimp out and just ride the mountan bicycle to the old yacht club and back to hme. I'ts a good ride where I push at times. Though we are not supposed to have any rain, I swear I feel a few drops of drizzle throughout the ride. After a quickshower at tome I pick up enough wine to get really messed up today and I notice more drizzle. Darn it - on the World Rally Car that I just waxed. At home I realize I've just made a mess of the genetic algorithm part of the integrated Artificial Intelligence process, so I go back tp configuration 0 and start over. The changes to the borrowed genetc algorithm code should be minor, so I take it step by step so that I don't mess things up and get lost. It migt take until Monday, but that's okay. I have the football games playing in the background and just proceed one small step at a time to improve the genetic algorithm and to make sure it is doing what I want to after each step. At mid-afternoon I just take a break and watch two fairly meaningless football games for entertainment. I've become obsessed with baseball (picking opimal batting lineups and optimal pitching strategies) and football (ofensive play calling and zone play). So I watch these games. And I'm continually thinking what algorithm could be used to choose these various strategies for each sport. I'm finally eating some food at 1:40pm today. I need to be eating more. And much later I've started a larger iAI process problem with the genetic algorithm in place and study the results.