I went on a long ride yesterday and the Trump signs that I’ve seen since 2015 are largely gone. The “Don’t tread on me” flags were still there. I wonder if it’s Trump fatigue?

GPT-2 Agents

• I had a brief flicker of a power failure that killed the training. I need to figure out how to restart from a checkpoint
• Need to normalize tweets by month and also subsample
• Topic extraction directly from DB

Took off yesterday and had a great time enjoying the weather and riding up to Gettysburg. And not thinking too much

There is also this

And later, this

GOES

• 10:00 Meeting with Vadim. If there is no progress, I’m going to build a display that plays back the recorded data so we can see what’s going on. He can’t make it, so postponed to Monday. I’ll start on the app after my other paperwork

NESDIS

• More paperwork

GPT-2 agents

• Respond to JF’s email and set up a meeting – done
• Hopefully finish the current training run.
• Adjust the code so that a query for the count of each month is made, and the results are normalized over each month. That means a query that gets the count and min/max row_ids
• Work on NMF and LDA topics for MER tweets. Do topics for the whole dataset (just the tweets), then select the ones that seem to make sense, and use them on the model-generated text. Create wordclouds from the topic labels
  • Got the NMF and LDA code into separate files. Need to change the get_content() method to pull directly from the db

Book

• Meeting with micelle

Did not want to wake up to this (Washington Post website as of 6:10 EST):

And the refrigerator was too narrow and too tall. Had to redo the cabinets. Sheesh.

GOES

• GVSETS continues today

GPT-2 Agents

• Working on the queries to build the test-train set. I’d like to start training against the medium model today
• I am doing things like this today: re.compile(r'(.?)(\<.?>)|$’)
• Created the training sets

Election day! Cue ominous music

Listening to Drinking with Historians episode with Drew McKevitt, and this came up:

..when when this came up with my students so my students they’re just an awesome group. I had this is two years ago i would say you know probably 18 of them probably 15 of them identified as like gun rights people right so they were they they owned guns themselves or they were all in favor of gun rights. And like every time the AR-15 came up and they’re just like “that’s this is just stupid culture war like that’s why people buy the gun.” These are like these are students who themselves are like gun rights people or gun owners and like that’s why people buy it it’s a culture war thing. I mean look at that guy in St Louis right who who pulled out his AR-15 and was aiming it at the protesters. Like what the hell is that guy doing with that gun? It’s total culture war stuff. It’s you know as we’d say like virtue signaling or something like that and that that’s what it is it’s saying. Like this it’s it’s it’s voting by buying a gun.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAcKv03GfdE&list=PLvTW8ARBmW029eOiTQA8GSVBKmSGHXpIp&index=12

GOES

• GVSETS, starts at 9:00
• Agendas

Book

• Adding some content from Chimpanzee Politics and working with the Moby Dick section. I think that’s coming together now. Need to talk about how Starbuck continues to have his own thoughts, but goes along with the consensus of the ship, even though he suspects that this will kill him

GPT-2 Agents

• Meeting with Sim and Shimei. We’re going to focus on getting some preliminary results for the 13th
• Looked at the results for the medium model and all agree that it looks much better. Going to train the

There appears to be some kind of imminent election for national office

My presentation is tomorrow, just before lunch, in the Modeling Simulation and Software Technical Session.

GOES

• Status report
• Over the weekend, I started to play with what happens when the AngleController isn’t getting any angles.

• What seems to be happening is an underdamped condition where the reaction wheels start oscillating and take off after a while. The left side of the charts generally seem to be something that could be handled with thresholding, but the fact that the system doesn’t recover and continue to oscillate around its zero pitch/roll/yaw position makes me thing that something funny is going on. I think the next thing to do is to plot these values in 3D to see if the reaction wheel axis contributions are being calculated correctly with respect to the normal

#COVID

• Was able to use the medium GPT2 model on the middle eastern and Trump rally data, but ran out of GPU memory if I tried to use the large model
• Trying out some probes on the Trump medium model. I think it could be really interesting to combine the rally data with other Trump (and maybe other?) sources (like tweets) to build out the dataset
• A nice topic modelling notebook with NMF and LDA

Book

• Organizing the chimpanzee section, and working on the Moby Dick part