7:00 – 3:30 ASRC PhD, NASA

• Lyrn.AI – Deep Learning Explained
  • Transformer-XL – Combining Transformers and RNNs Into a State-of-the-art Language Model
  • Multilingual Sentence Embeddings for Zero-Shot Transfer – Applying a Single Model on 93 Languages
  • Go-Explore – RL Algorithm for Exploration Problems – Solving Montezuma’s Revenge
• Re-learning how to code in PHP again, which is easier if you’ve been doing a lot of C++/Java and not so much if you’ve been doing Python. Anyway, I wrote a small class:

  class DbIO2 {
      protected $connection = NULL;
  
      function connect($db_hostname, $db_username, $db_password, $db_database){
          $toReturn = array();
          $this->connection = new mysqli($db_hostname, $db_username, $db_password, $db_database);
          if($this->connection->connect_error){
              $toReturn['connect_successful'] = false;
              $toReturn['connect_error'] = $this->connection->error;
          } else {
              $toReturn['connect_successful'] = true;
          }
          return $toReturn;
      }
  
  
      function runQuery($query) {
          $toReturn = array();
          if($query == null){
              $toReturn['query_error'] = "query is empty";
              return $toReturn;
          }
          $result = $this->connection->query($query);
  
          if (!$result) {
              $toReturn['database_access'] = $this->connection->error;
              return $toReturn;
          }
  
          $numRows = $result->num_rows;
  
          for ($j = 0 ; $j < $numRows ; ++$j)         {             $result->data_seek($j);
              $row = $result->fetch_assoc();
              $toReturn[$j] = $row;
          }
          return $toReturn;
      }
  }

• And exercised it

  require_once '../../phpFiles/ro_login.php';
  require_once '../libs/io2.php';
  
  $dbio = new DbIO2();
  
  $result = $dbio->connect($db_hostname, $db_username, $db_password, $db_database);
  
  printf ("%s\n",json_encode($result));
  
  $result = $dbio->runQuery("select * from post_view");
  
  foreach ($result as $row)
      printf ("%s\n", json_encode($row));

• Which gave me some results

  {"connect_successful":true}
  {"post_id":"4","post_time":"2018-11-27 16:00:27","topic_id":"4","topic_title":"SUBJECT: 3 Room Linear Dungeon Test 1","forum_id":"14","forum_name":"DB Test","username":"dungeon_master1","poster_ip":"71.244.249.217","post_subject":"SUBJECT: 3 Room Linear Dungeon Test 1","post_text":"POST: dungeon_master1 says that you are about to take on a 3-room linear dungeon."}
  {"post_id":"5","post_time":"2018-11-27 16:09:12","topic_id":"4","topic_title":"SUBJECT: 3 Room Linear Dungeon Test 1","forum_id":"14","forum_name":"DB Test","username":"dungeon_master1","poster_ip":"71.244.249.217","post_subject":"SUBJECT: dungeon_master1's introduction to room_0","post_text":"POST: dungeon_master1 says, The party now finds itself in room_0. There is a troll here."}
  (repeat for another 200+ lines)

• So I’m well on my way to being able to show the stories (both from the phpbb and slack) on the Antibubbles “stories” page

4:00 – 5:00 Meeting with Don