John BS @johnabs@qoto.org

My laser cutter just came in, and I'll be posting pictures of some of my new inlay stuff once I get it fully configured! (And if I decide to mod it, I'll post a build guide on my website if anyone is interested 😄 )

Currently 8 days without food, and 12-15(somewhere in there) days with less than 500 calories.

Mouth holes? Healing faster.

Hunger? Minimal, but pops up occasionally.

Fatigue? None.

Exercise fatigue? Lots (probably need more electrolyte powder)

Amount of money I'm planning on spending when I can eat again on delicious Korean barbecue? Potentially all of it 😂

I've lost 15lbs (~7kg) in ~1.5 weeks from not being able to eat due to having my wisdom teeth pulled out and having some complications. I'll take it!

I've been trying to lose weight for a while, and being hungry is better than dry socket pain (literal agony 💀) or infection (potential agony 😂). If I keep it up until my holes are healed up as planned, I'll be able to buy those second hand tweed suits and jackets I've been eyeing for a while on eBay 🤤

@trinsec HEY! I just got a cool Dutch e-bike and I wanted you to be the first person I told (aside from my wife who okayed the purchase, and my mom who kept me on the phone while I drove out to pick it up...but they don't count lmao). ITS SO NICE, and now I'm even more jealous of your country. If you have any tips or tricks for your fancy Nederlander bikes, please lemme know, otherwise if this was weird, you can also tell me that and I'll stop 😂

Re-writing a graph library's inbuilt functions to use matrices instead of their inbuilt graph data structure is literally giving me 10x performance boosts in nearly all of my calculations.....I'm not sure what be up, but something, indeed, be up.

Edit: Their implementation is actually WAY better, the problem is I need to do conversions into matrix forms which is insanely slow, which leads to a bottleneck which is beaten just by using the matrix implementation, apparently.

So I just made "honeyed egg-fried-rice", just to see if I would like it. It's incredible, and I highly recommend the recipe, which I will attach below. Please note, nearly all ingredients are "to taste" or guesses, but once I really have time to tweak the recipe, I'll post another toot with the amounts I found to be the best for me. I'd also like to recommend adding cured pork, like charsiu, and glazing that in the honey as you cook the dish, but the following is a vegetarian version.

Ingredients:
1-2 day old rice (should have been kept refrigerated, in case that needs to be said, lol) ~ 2 cups/500g
Large Eggs ~3-4
Oil (preferably olive, or neutral)
Onion Powder
Garlic Powder
Chinese Black Vinegar (or normal rice vinegar, your choice)
Soy Sauce (I love lee kum kee for this)
MSG
Peas+Carrots (or any sufficiently small veggies)
Raw Honey, preferably crystallized (or just pure honey with no adulterants, unlike what you get in the US...)

Nonstick pan (ceramic, wok, etc. stainless steel will NOT work)
Wooden spatula

First, coat the bottom of your pan with oil, and allow to heat up until shimmering but not smoking.
Add the rice and break up in the oil to coat and separate all the grains.
Add eggs, and stir-fry rapidly to coat the rice, but slow enough that you don't destroy all the curds. Allow the eggs to nearly set before proceeding to the next step. If you can't get this step right for some reason, pre-cook the eggs (keep them slightly runny) and add them here.
Add all seasonings except soy sauce, honey, vinegar and MSG to taste/smell (rough estimates would be ~1-3TBSP (15-45g) vinegar, onion powder, garlic powder, per cup/225g of rice.
Add the MSG, vinegar and soy sauce to taste, in that order. Be careful with the MSG as it's quite salty, you can always come back to add more after adding the soy sauce to dial in the flavor as you like it. Note: overdo the salt and vinegar notes a bit, these will be rounded out when you add the honey.
Allow the rice to get to the point from "hissing" to "popping" in the pan to build up a nice crust. Keep the rice moving so it doesn't get too crusty in one place (crucial to get an approximation of wok hei without a real wok).
Add the honey (approximately 1-2TBSP per cup/15-30g per 225g) and mix vigorously. It will slowly melt when exposed to the heat, and coat the rice, adding another layer of flavor complexity to the dish.
Finally, add the peas and carrots to the rice (you don't want them overcooked or you'll lose their brightness). Do a final tasting and correct as needed.
Top with any garnish you want (e.g. thin sliced, fresh spring onions) and serve.

Ah, yes, all 4 biological sexes according to Cronometer.

Oh, and I thought of a math joke:

"Yo mamma's so fat they call her Hilbert because her curves are space filling".

Thank you, I'll be here all week 😂

Today I finally built my first package for gnu guix: zotero! It works now, and I'm quite proud of myself, as it wasn't easy to do :) If anyone is using guix, the link to the build is on guix-science!

So I had a strange dream last night which finally concluded with the main character, a celestial rabbit, who consumed the body of a deceased tortoise monster, "collecting the power of 3000 garden snails" to win a race. I am currently accepting licensing requests, and looking forward to publishing agents contacting me about the heartwarming reimagination of the classic fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare".

Along with the other stories my wife has told me about things I've said in my sleep (such as thanking her for "being the workhorse that delivers all the radars") I am convinced that remembering my dreams and publishing them would be enough to make me wealthy and/or institutionalized 😂

So I got a sodastream, and my dog does NOT like the fizzy water. She tried to hit it with her paws after a few sips 😂

So, really cool new tool I've learning as I'm working with lisp for my startup: [symex.el](https://github.com/countvajhula/symex.el) for structural navigation and editing is VERY efficient, somewhat vim-based, and I really like it a lot. As an added bonus, some of its dependencies (e.g. lispy) are very useful for multi-lining s-exps (aka symexs) and formatting them, and it plays nicely with sly, which is even better!

Additionally, for all you #rstats people out there (who are asking why I included the tag on a post about Lisp), maybe take a quick look at [this](https://lisp-stat.dev/about/). I'm currently using it myself, and I've found it's pretty good for most basic things, and you may like it if you give it a try (or maybe not, it's not yet as full featured as R and its various packages yet, but it does benefit from some things I don't think you can get easily from R). Also, here's a super quick demo [thingy(?)](https://lisp-stat.dev/docs/examples/plotting/).

I know other tools leveraging tree-sitter try to achieve similar functionality, but when the code is already in an AST format, it really eliminates the guesswork and makes the experience seamless!

I'm giving my very first academic conference talk tomorrow, and I'm pretty nervous, even though I'm pretty confident in my slides, and my talk.

Regardless, anybody out there who sees this, I'd appreciate it if you could wish me luck.

I maintained my streak of all As, and my final project may end up being published if I can convince a collaborator to chat about it, and I'm finally going on a trip with my wife (though, it's to a conference lol).

Overall, it was a pretty good semester, and all it cost me was my sanity 😂