To-do list
I'm getting married at the end of the month, and the wedding and honeymoon between them will take about 3 weeks out of work, while there's a conference deadline not long after I'll be back from the honeymoon. So it's time for a list of things I hope to get done in the coming 3½ weeks, to keep myself focussed.
- Coevolution of trials
- Starting agents' energy levels at 0.5, and seeing if I need to adjust other parameters to compensate (lest they die too readily at the beginning of a trial)
- Introducing rest periods between presentations of food
- Allowing 'partial eating' of food
- Writing a nice clear method section for any paper that would come out of this work
- Writing a very rough introduction to the specific paper I'm hoping to write, that frames the question well
- Setting off a large number of experiments to run unattended while I'm away, so that I return to a large volume of data waiting to be analysed
Items 5 & 6 are partly to spread out the writing workload, but also so I can send them to my lab before I go, giving them plenty of time to comment by the time I get back. #7 should be the only task I have on my last day of work, so I can avoid making stupid mistakes and set off large enough queues of work that at least my own machines are busy for the whole time.
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Congratulations and best wishes on your impending wedding! Is your future wife a scientist too?
Thanks!
My wife-to-be is actually a software professional, so while we met as a result of being in the same department at Case for 2 years, we don't really do similar work these days.