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guitarplayer wrote:
Sat Oct 22, 2022 5:05 am
Post 1945 Glasgow was riding the wave of increased standard of living the rest of the West was riding, but always lagging behind somewhat. The book was written in 1975, I would like to read a more recent account of Glasgow's current affairs.
The book probably mentioned this but Glasgow was once notorious for its slum housing, with workers jammed into overcrowded Victorian tenement buildings, often lacking even basic plumbing. Unsurprisingly, they became havens of diseases and poverty. After WW2 huge efforts were made to improve working class housing, with many of the tenement demolished and replace with high rise council flats. These tower blocks brought some short term improvement, but were often badly built and maintained. Local working class communities were broken up, and the blocks quickly became crime ridden hell holes. Although this was probably as much due to the city's economic decline as much as the ill-thought out architecture.

In the 1970s, research done by the university showed that many of the tenement buildings were actually structurally well built and could be modernised much more cost effectively than building town blocks, were located closer to amenities and often had much better social outcomes. Many of the surviving tenements were refurbished, but its a shame so many were lost and replaced with modernists failures.

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@chenda, yes, all that was written about in the book. It is curious to live in Glasgow and observe the industrial landscape as it seems to be a mosaic of a sort a Cubist artist would think of. Only that one does not know if it was intentional or not (likely not).

The other day I went for a run and once exploring the Southern Necropolis I found Thomas Lipton's (of the well known Lipton Tea) grave. Here is a photo of the front of the grave...

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...and the one taken from another side.

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2022 update 43/52 (late)

Job

004/156 weeks in (ca. 2.6%). I arbitrarily set a timer on three years with this organisation.

I got my 2 day SAS training. The first part was great, the second less so. I have good materials to work through. SAS is a nice piece of software, much less canned than SPSS, there is quite a bit of coding / writing scripts going on. I don't know if SAS has an official status of a programming language, but looks like it does a good job operating huge csv files.

I will also be working with Power BI on a regular basis.

Generally I am excited to be getting hands-on experience in learning and applying a new skill set.

My organization is getting me the Royal Statistical Society fellowship and there are quite some talks and trainings at my workplace. At this stage my tactic is to be all in on most if not all of them. My manager is happy with this as well. I will also be getting a pay bump next month, something between 5-10%.

DW had her first week at the new job. Rather easy going - is my impression. She has to go to the office so is more concerned about clothes and such. We went for a family event and my mum gave her lots of clothes that are reasonably 'office like', so she is sorted. I think the 12 months placement she is on is somehow subsidized by the government because she is treated as a bonus. Has been invited to go to Wales for a few days in November to have a look at wind farms. Had been encouraged to and applied for a graduate scheme that pays some 80% more and is to do with cybersecurity.

Anthropology of the Cave

There is a Christmas Party initiative that I talked myself out of with the argument of effective altruism. Instead of buying food and drinks I would not enjoy and hanging out with people I can hang out at work anyway (though not sure I would choose to), I might stream the money towards Low-Tech Magazine. This is maybe not the most efficient cause from the effective altruism standpoint, but might just be a good middle ground all things considered. Thanks to @Scott 2 for starting the thread on the ERE forum.

I have finished the The Tobacco Lords. An excellent example of application of Smithonian economics to the case of Glasgow tobacco merchants. Their way of doing business and tapping onto smallholding planters was of buying tobacco in the colonies rather than acting solely as an intermediary, thus appropriating risks inherent to international trade in XVIII century. This gave them an edge vs the English merchants who acted solely as intermediaries. Also, Scots exploited access to the English capital and the geographically advantageous position of the Scottish west coast. Also, employing matrimonial and friendship ties. Lots of arbitrage there. Significant portion of the book was about the War for Independence 1775-82 and debt arrangements during and after this period. All that nested in the history of the first industrial revolution.

Nota bene, in 1763 there were 28300 people in Glasgow, whereas in 1801 there were 77385. Makes me want to see a gapminder style map of populations of cities throughout centuries.

Leisure

We went to two art galleries over the last week and one urban garden. Found some wood blewits in the garden.

Went for a family party to continental Europe over the weekend. Family was happy to see us.

Stoic exercises

Week 40: Focus on the Mind-Body connection. Last week I wrote:

If I experience a physical discomfort in the form of being tired of sitting at a desk, my feet being cold or needing to go to the loo desperately,

I will say to myself

'This is a hindrance to what is currently do or how I prefer to feel, but not to my will. What can I do? Which virtue (wisdom, justice, temperance, courage) can I exercise here?'

I think I have been pretty good in trying to exercise virtues in the face of huge adversity that was the above mentioned family party. Lots of food on the table, the sort I would not prepare myself for sure. Temperance when eating stuff that I thought I would actually eat, courage in refusing other stuff despite repeated offerings, giving justice to the attempts of hosts to accommodate differences.

Week 41: Question judgements around pain and disease.

Oh well, Murakami must have read Seneca:
Seneca wrote:It is according to opinion that we suffer.
The task for this week is, whenever finding oneself thinking or saying catastrophic thoughts around pain or disease, to pause and reframe them. This is going to be fairly easy as I am having a cold just now. So

if I start complaining about my cold (internally or externally),

I am going to

pause and say to myself 'cold is really not the worst thing that could happen to you.'

Maths and Stats

3/19 assignments now done. I have finished the first two chapters of Applied Statistical Modelling: Unit 1 Introduction to Statistical Modelling and R and Unit 2 Multiple Linear Regression. The assignments for this course are done in jupyter notebooks, cool to learn how to put things together in this medium.

Last week I have read through the introduction of 'Graphs, Networks and Design' and started re-reading first books of each graphs, networks and design. I had read it all over summer as it was available online. I was away for the family event already on Friday early, early morning and returned yesterday straight to work, so I managed to only start the 4th assignment. This is also accompanied by a small online homework that I have mostly done. I hope to be done with assignment no 4 by the end of this week.

Well-being

Travelling the past weekend was a strain as we had to get up practically mid night on Friday and were returning overnight to be back Monday morning. I have a bit of a cold, but nothing too bad.

Got a VGA-VGA cable to connect the extra screen to my personal laptop.

Thanks for reading!

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I might take a specialist stance over the next few months and concentrate on work and studies until our trip to South America in March next year. The journal might have shorter entries, or be more monotonous.

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My partner and I are discussing working through the weekly stoic exercises for next year. It has been really interesting following along for yours.

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Glad to read that mountainFrugal!

I have an intuition or hold a metaphor that Stoicism unfolds geometrically into Confucianism. I would like to reconcile Stoicism and Epicureanism; I am not the first one as I think Seneca did write that Epicureanism is fundamentally sound. It's a shame so little stemming from the latter is left written for us to read.

On a different note, in the last 58 days we have used 129 kWh of household energy. We are on course to end up with surplus money as the UK government is giving away 66/67£ per month over the next 6 months for every household to help them with energy bills.

Also, DW just made me a heat pad from unpopped popcorn put in a paper towel.

I forgot how hard it is to think with a cold, I hope to be over with it very soon!

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I've enjoyed reading about your experiences in Glasgow. My family in England looked at me quite strangely when I mentioned I wanted to visit Glasgow on my last trip to the UK. The late Anthony Bourdain described it as his favorite city in Scotland, and one of his favorite cities on earth.

“Glasgow is maybe the most bullshit-free place on earth. I think I call it "the antidote to the rest of the world. It's so unapologetically working class and attitude-free. Everyone's looking 'to take the piss out of you,' as they put it. They're all comedians, and tough. They don't put on airs.”
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Yes I've always thought Epicureanism and Stoicism were complementary philosophies, although were rivals in antiquity. I would also recommend Neoplatonism
Plotinus is a slog to get through but his ideas are sublime.

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That is good to read that you enjoy it @WRC. There was a paragraph in 'The Upas Tree' about some of the inhabitants of the early XX century slum neighbourhood of Gorbals in Glasgow. In their childhood, these people would be constantly malnourished and go through one disease after another, resulting in their limbs all twisted, small height and skin full of scars from various skin conditions. They would be the most hardy people in the whole of the city, and very witty too. Nothing to lose, and afraid of nothing anymore. There was a name for them in the book but it escapes me now and the book is back in the library.

@chenda, this is noted about Neoplatonism and Plotinus. Yep, I think it was more to do with marketing, underlining differences between the two to gain more followers. Maybe a bit like today's US most popular political fractions?

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2022 update 44/52

Job

005/156 weeks in (ca. 3.2%).

I spent some more time on SAS code, went through one project back to back at my own pace, understanding all what is done there. This I enjoyed very much. I think all in all the job allows for a lot of freedom in structuring work as one pleases as long as deadlines are met. Today I have discovered that they use Trello boards for projects.

I see that there is quite a bit of dialogue about moving on from SAS to R so if anyone has good resources on translating work between SAS and R, sharing would be very helpful!

Stoic exercises

Week 41: Question judgements around pain and disease.

Well, I was (still am) with a cold so had ample opportunity to keep some common sense about it. For what it's worth, I managed to keep on working (because working from home) and actually get some work done, if at a slower pace.

Week 42: Retreat to your inner citadel.

This week is about retreating to one's inner citadel. There is the now pretty well established in my mind notion that it is not the events that are upsetting but the perception of events. Also, external things are and then a moment later they are not anymore. This goes for things that are upsetting, but also for one's body, fame, youth and similar. Whenever something is perceived as taxing, it should be possible to retreat within one's mind, get some breathing space. The task for the week is to get ready in the face of a troubling situation to have a stoic maxim and build an implementation intention on the basis of the maxim. I am going to mostly copy from an excerpt of Meditations of Marcus Aurelius:

Troubling situation: other people's behaviour
A comforting stoic maxim: forbearance is a part of justice
Implementation intention: If I find myself negatively judging others, I will tell to myself: 'Forbearance is a part of justice'.

Troubling situation: an event I dislike
A comforting stoic maxim: either providence or atoms; either way, it's foolish to chafe at this.
Implementation intention: If I notice myself disliking what just happened, I'll say: 'Either providence or atoms; judging this negatively is foolish in either case.'

Troubling situation: bodily pain
A comforting stoic maxim: pain is inevitable, suffering is optional
Implementation intention: If I feel pain, I'll say to myself: 'I can interpret this pain as I wish'.

Troubling situation: being concerned about others' judgement of me
A comforting stoic maxim: take a view from above
Implementation intention: When I notice that I worry about others' thoughts about me, I'll tell myself: 'I only inhabit a small part of the planet, in an ever smaller part of the universe'.

Maths and Stats

I made a start on the fourth assignment and am something like 30% done. It was tricky to keep motivated, but I still aim to have it done by the end of Sunday.

Letters / family

For a year now I have been writing a monthly newsletter to my family so they have at least a vague idea of how my life goes (which is rather different from their life because less mainstream). I think this is good. I recently got books for my siblings, parents and nephew each and dropped a note in each book. I like this form of communicating and hope they appreciate it. Also started phoning my brother because it seems he prefers talking to writing; when I phone it is mostly him talking hah. I wrote his son a letter with a poem about a frog because in our last encounter this past summer we spotted a frog in a nearby creek and had a chat about it. Not me who came up with the poem, it's a sort of poem everybody learns in primary school. I started reciting it last weekend and my parents joined in. Part of a collective consciousness one might say, if they feel inspired.

Well-being

My cold is going away, hope by the end of the week it will be away.

I brought my skiing trousers from visiting my parents, they are really good, I wear them everyday. They are a bit baggy as skiing trousers are, and I think the layer of air does a great job as an insulator. Last month I was trying with base layers that were rather tight and this did not work me. Loose outfit definitely works better for sedentary indoor activities with heating off. About an hour ago DW hanged a sort of curtain in the door frame of our living room as well, curious to see how this will work.

Thanks for reading!

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Castles use to have drapes and fabric hanging off the walls for insulation purposes. That might work

Also, good luck with Power BI. I use it daily at work. There is a fee youtube channels that might help you to understand it better. Guy in a cube is a good one

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@Frugalchicos, totally, or carpets hanging off walls. I have been to Istanbul's carpet museum twice I think, impressive!

This is very timely about PowerBI as DW and I have been talking about it just now in our work from home lunch break. She has been asked to produce a dashboard in her 12 months placement, I passed on the 'guy in a cube' source.

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Anthropology of the Cave

I am getting a hang of my job, what are the tasks, how to carry them out, what are the expected potential obstacles. It is really a cerebral man made landscape, I can see how people might not know how to get out of it after a number of years. Due to atrophy. It feels like after a number of years accumulating money in such landscape, the risk of not being able to ERE due to reasons other than money grows significantly. Basically what @Jacob wrote in the book, just seen afresh now is stark.

Meanwhile, enjoying living on the verge of the cave in our lower-middle multi ethnic working class neighbourhood, we finally made it to the middle eastern supermarkets downstairs. Got 2kg whole red lentils, 1kg black beluga lentils, 85g ground cumin, 500g black rasins, 500g dates and 1.5kg barley* with husks. Paid about $18.5 for it. Those shops are like a candy store for us, there are tons and tons of herbs, spices, nuts and seeds (could not find linseeds though). Man at the counter of the second supermarket started a chatter, I told him he might see more of us because we had just moved upstairs and like what he's got. He asked 'which flat?' to which I gave him the floor as it's the first time we spoke. I gather though he might be our neighbour.

He gave us saj breads as a good bye presents, 'I won't charge you'. Knows his trade, we will come again.

* which reminds me: DW says that Glasgow city centre smells like bread. I think it smells like drunk. The reason is that across the river from Glasgow Green they cook tons of barley for whiskey at Strathclyde Distillery. Not common to have one in the almost strict city centre.

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2022 update 45/52

Job

006/156 weeks in (ca. 3.8%).

I spent most of the past week drafting my first piece of work that will be published next week. It is a small publication and I don't anticipate many (any?) people reading it, but there is a bit of a thrill of having something published. Well, I kind of publish stuff here in my journal, but an official publication feels different.

Next week I will be starting working on another publication due in the second half of December (at about 7.6% mark in this post). Meanwhile I will be honing SAS and R skills. Also, signed up for a Python 4 half-days training in January. Also, looks like I might be heading for a two day statistics conference in England next month.

Stoic exercises

Week 42: Retreat to your inner citadel.

Frankly, I can't recall many situations when I explicitly implemented the intentions from last week. There is only some hope that they played a role in the past week being better it would have otherwise been!

Week 43: Challenge your anxious thoughts

The pain people experience due to anxiety comes solely from the mind. Seneca says that 'no fear is so ruinous and so uncontrollable as panic fear. ' This is because it arises from uncertainty and hence there is potentially no limit to it, because barely anything is certain. Somehow or other it is the idle report that disturbs us most. For truth has its own definite boundaries, but that which arises from uncertainty is delivered over to guesswork and the irresponsible license of a frightened mind.

But one can invert this thinking, because insofar bad things can happen to us (all sorts of bad things), it might just be that bad things will not happen to us.

And anyway, other than mind borne anxiety, other 'bad things' that are happening to use are not, really, bad, it is our judgement that feeds into the perception of them as bad.

Seneca suggests a three step process for dealing with anxiety:
1. check in with the present moment, use some mindfulness techniques like focusing on breathing, feeling your body etc. relax into the moment
2. after that is done, consider whether there is anything wrong right now. If something is wrong right now, practice 'Week 40: Focus on the body-mind connection' and 'Week 41: Question judgements about pain and disease'. If there is nothing wrong / uncomfortable, clearly lay out what is the future situation you are worried about. Then proceed to a trial of weighting the evidence in favour of the future situation materialising versus the evidence of this future situation not materialising. Perhaps in this instance 'past performance is a good indicator of future performance' as one's life normally does not change dramatically from one situation to another. There is some situation stability of circumstances and character. Another way to make this more comprehensive is to focus on a whole palette of outcomes that might occur.
3. Ask yourself: is this worry doing me any good just now? If it is doing no good, put it aside. If it is actionable in that something within one's control can be altered it might be useful to perform an action.

Music

I am using Glasgow Library functionality to listen to some good music without adverts. Currently I am listening to Kroke (Krakow, Poland) and Tindra (Norway). Kroke is an amazing band, Tindra I am just finding out about.

Some nomadic music for itchy feet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDatqrUErv0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPX97L__cBE

For Ajde Jano, make yourself comfortable with a cup of tea. Sounds like they sing it in Norwegian. Love the song, canon of world music. Think 'Beatles Imagine' of world music.

Maths and Stats

I have the fourth assignment done, so am at 4/20 and have 17 weeks until we head off to South America. Was a bit slowed down the last two weeks because of being away on an extended weekend away and then being ill.

I have not started working on the next assignment yet, but it is going to be mathematical statistics again, particularly multivariate continuous distribution theory. I did partial derivatives and marginal integrals in mathematical methods, models and modelling so this rings a bell. I aim to sprint through the rest of the chapter and write a big chunk of assignment 5 before the end of the weekend.

I got 100% on the first mathematical statistics assignment.

Archeology of the cave

I have in front of me 'Glasgow: The Forming of the City'. It's an urban design book mainly, I think. Briefly glanced at it, talks about dynamics of rapid expansions and contraction. Peter Reed tries to present Glasgow as a post modern city, post industrial city, services based. What is the edge that Glasgow has?

I also requested 'The Snowball'*.

I have some wanderers in my team, one person did CompSci degree and then moved to Paris to train to and later be a chef for a decade, doing IT consulting in parallel.

*ETA: I got it, read the first couple of chapters. Got me to this speech of Warren Buffet from 1999. Nicely formatted, too.

Household stuff

Do you have tricks for drying laundry when it is cold and with no heating or tumble drier? It takes our laundry about 3 days and it is a small flat so we have to walk around the laundry.

Our energy usage averages at 2.21kW / day over the last just over two months.

Thanks for reading!

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How did you get daily energy use down to 2 kw for the day.

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In answer to your question about drying laundry, we bought a dehumidifier. We hang the washing on three clothes driers, close the windows and turn on the dehumidifier and close the bedroom door. It uses 300W and from my research it's more energy efficient than a tumble drier.

Impressed with your 2.21kWh/day. We use that much electricity to cook our evening meal!

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Hmm, dehumidifier is an idea I didn’t think of. I might take a look at that as well. We have a sunny corner in our place we put the clothes for hanging. But some days it can ages.

Agree with thriftyrob our evening cooking can sometimes take as much as that. You must be eating sandwiches.

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Thanks @ThriftyRob, yes this is an option. I have been using a dehumidifier at my old place, main reason being that clothes would smell of damp otherwise. Here they just take long but smell okay, so much of the incentive to get extra stuff i.e. dehumidifier is gone. I experimented with leaving clothes hanged up on clothes driers in the kitchen overnight and running the extraction fan though, did not speed things up terribly.

Energy wise, in truth, being here all the time is more like almost 3kWh / day; the first month we were between here and our old place. I think I wrote somewhere above that I have an optimistic/realistic aim of 900/1500 kWh over a year.

We normally
- cook 4.5l slow cooker worth of food for about 4-5h at 0.21kWh daily and
- a dish with 300-500 g of a variety of grains in a microwave at I think 0.7kWh for 20-35min
- then kettle and reheating stuff in microwave as we please and
- energy saving light bulbs
- no heating
- no TV
- cold showers
- laundry once a week perhaps

We work from home 75% of the time so you would think the usage would be higher. I think no heating does most of the job.

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Wow, that is extremely impressive. We are using ~3kWh a day on our electricity (we work from home as well); even w/o the heating on our boiler is apparently drawing ~2kWh a day just to do the washing up. I think you're reaping the benefits of having a compact abode!

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Yeah there is a boiler in the flat but we just keep it off. Washing up is easy with cold water when food residue is not left to dry aka do your dishes straight after eating.

I wonder what is the best unit of energy to convert to for comparisons.

3 kWh ~= 10.8 * 10^6 J
2000 kcal ~= 8.4 * 10^6 J

In other words DW and I are employing a hard working helper in the flat for less than £1.5 daily wage. Extraordinary.

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2022 update 45/52

Job

007/156 weeks in (ca. 4.5%).

My first publication is out, went to some officials, has been acknowledged. I don't anticipate anyone is going to spend much time reading it.

I started working on the second publication, have a fairly good plan and code structure. It will involve getting in touch with another team for manual data cleaning.

Next week I will have a two day training about quick thinking and decision making (as in, when under pressure).

I booked tickets for the December statistics conference.

All good at work I think I lucked it as far as corporate jobs are concerned. It's a good environment. I am curious if my arbitrary 3 year deadline for being in the post will coincide with a change of mood about it. In any case I don't think I am not going to be a captive of the deadline in any way.

Stoic exercises

Week 43: Challenge your anxious thoughts

Yes this exercise worked for me. Not that I was terribly anxious all together. Would have come handy a few years back when I was starting at the new job. Now I have things much more under control, happily looking at the code, cleaning data and designing publications (well, frankly now it is mostly using templates from previous times, but with tweaks).

Week 44: Decompose Desired Externals

Is there anything desirable about external things at all?

In the book there is this excerpt from 'Meditations' where Marcus Aurelius deconstructs nice food, clothes and so on into its subtracts.

The task is, whenever a strong stir of desire comes, to try to describe the object of the desire in value free terms, avoid value judgements.

A warm up is to think about what are the signs of the desire coming. Does it start in the belly, there is a sequence of thoughts, some external event, picture or sign or something? How do desires manifest themselves to you? For me, it mostly starts in the head in that I imagine how things feel nice. Sometimes I have watery mouth as well!

I am totally going to take coffee drinking into the workshop and try to decompose it over the week. I will try to jot down a few sentences in the mornings when I normally have it.

"By removing the value judgement, you remove the value".

Music

Listening to Beethoven this evening. I have been casually playing guitar every day, less opportunities now as in the previous job I would play at work. I tackle some Christmas Carols. What is your favourite Christmas Carol?

Maths and Stats

Somehow last week I typed that there would be 20 assignments, but just checked and there are in fact only 19 this year. So I have 5 written now, this weekend will be working on the sixth one.

It has been tricky to concentrate on studies over the week, a lot of similar material (work and after work). But I in the end had a lot of productive time thinking about and learning how to perform various regressions, their diagnostics etc, in R. I am going to be producing another piece of work in Jupyter.

I got 97% on the first 'applications of probability' assignment.

Archeology of the cave

I enjoy reading 'The Snowball', am 100 pages in. This sentence Buffett said when talking about Race Tracks he would go to in his teens stayed with me:

"[...] the trick, of course is to be in a group where practically no one is analytical and you have a lot of data."

I notice at work a somewhat unusual situation in that the sub-organization I work for is only a few years old so we actually get to establish processes that maybe in x years another statistician will come and say 'why do we do it this way?' and nobody will know anymore.

Household stuff

After some queries from last week I came to the conclusion that reporting daily energy consumption averaged over a long time can be misleading. So another angle: in November we have used 89 kWh of energy. On a related note, a few days back I got a £66 Gov support payment from our energy provider, this will run until April.

Due to my studies I am exempt from paying council tax, got a letter a while back. We applied for the same for DW but it might be not granted because she does 3 modules whilst I do 4 modules.

Thanks for reading!

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guitarplayer wrote:
Fri Nov 18, 2022 2:51 pm
What is your favourite Christmas Carol?
Carol of the Bells!

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It’s been years since I’ve coded in R, but I code almost exclusively in SAS now. Our employer is having us upgrading to SAS Viya from SAS Studio. The former allows you to integrate with GitHub but also write Python programs.

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