I've heard many people say they need deadlines in order to get work done. Sometimes I wonder how much of a deadline's magic is just brutally enforced time-boxing. If your project necessarily has to end in a couple days, you'll allocate your time effectively. Time is scarce; you need to make the most of it! Conversely, long projects with vague deadlines have a habit of expanding to fit the time you give them.

What I Did Feb 25th - Mar 3rd

• Went to one of AMII's meetups to listen to to Johannes talk about laser welding and Meadow.ai talk about medical imaging.
• Went to Amii's Whisky Wednesday meetup and tried a really cool Japanese whisky.
• Received one of ten BorealisAI fellowships! 🎆
• Went to the Sibelius festival and listened to Karelia Suite, Kuolema, Op. 44 No. 2: Scene with Cranes, and Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47.
• Submitted two abstracts to RLDM 2019.
• Submitted reviews for ICML2019.
• Hacked on a twitter-bot which sends positive tweets when female politicians are harassed on twitter.
• Went to a fraternity formal.
• Built a twitter syndication tool that takes a blog-post and processes it into a twitter thread.

Most irritating matplotlib error:

AttributeError: Unknown property colour

I took a break from ICML reviewing yesterday to go to an embroidery class. My goal is to get good enough to make my own patches to put on jackets and backpacks.

Embroidery is actually strangely addictive! I can see why embroidery is enjoying a revival in the crafting community.

The class was actually really great; having the chance to chat with a bunch of crafters and makers was a blast. It was also the first time in a long time that I've been at an event that's predominantly women that's not focused on tech and professional development.

Barbados Workshop 2019

Making more friends 🐒

Making friends 🐠

On my way to the barbados

On science communication and blogging.