The Press Tour

Today was an incredibly long day at work, I, my team and the entire company were trying to get the product we're developing ready for the press tour that's planned in a couple of days. Meanwhile other deadlines press on and even though it feels like there is no progress the product is advancing exponentially. It's easy to loose sight of matters when there is so much going on, yet I'm proud to say that my team is keeping their head above water quite well. If it wasn't for their hard work and continuous contribution to the refinement process of the product I would have been quite burned out. However the results of the project until now will be reviewed tomorrow and we'll have to see where we'll need to cut corners or add more bells and whistles. If the review goes well the team should have their work cut out for them for the coming week and the one after. I'll have to maintain contact with them while I'm away to see if they're getting the necessary support they need to continue their work successfully.

I speak of my absence with regard to the fact that yours truly is going to be presenting the product to the press. This will be an interesting moment in my career, I've never done something similar in a proffesional environment before. Sure I've presented many things as if they were the answer to whatever the listener sought to believe, but this is different. As a professional and speaking out of experience I know you can't bullshit a "bulshitter". So how am I going to sell this outstanding product without revealing too much of its nature and so protecting it from possible exposure to competition? I suppose I can only answer that question once I've demonstrated the product for the first time to the press.

Meanwhile on the other side of my tiny world is my fantastic and beloved girlfriend. She in her turn has embarked on an endless journey that one day will lead to the summit of the mountain we call cognitive science. As she climbs on, the air becomes thinner and so does the time that we have together. Though this is not a problem "yet" I try to be her lifeline when she falls. Maybe I can help her with the hardship ahead?

So I decided to assist her today with her project for connectionism. We built a neural network today consisting of three layers and ten nodes and I can tell you that every one of those nodes took ages to get right. The interesting thing is that we didn't make the deadline but we actually struggled together to fight for every inch of code we had to write and somehow that was worth more than the mark. It sounds idealistic but it was actually fun to keep my dear friend and programmer Mehrzad awake for hours and hours just so we could get this neural network right. In the end we got parts of it right and maybe by the time you read this we got the rest done as well.

Maybe this all doesn't make sense but in the end I have my own mountain to climb in the morning and I have an expedition to lead. I'm of to bed....