It’s Christmas day and the Kansas City Chiefs are playing football. My big plan during the game was to spend some time looking at how Grails works and reading software documentation. My primary development over the last few years has been in Python and that has worked out well enough. A lot of the development in the machine learning space is Python related. I’m not entirely sure what type of things I’ll want to build with Grails, but spending a little time with it makes sense for now. Over the years I have spent time coding in all sorts of different programming languages. I did at one point think that Perl would be the future. That did not turn out to be true. Other people did not love using and working with Perl as much as I did during the course of working with data.

Today has been a pretty low key day full of watching football. I think this will be two weeks in a row of posting to the weblog. I’m back in the habit of daily posting. Part of daily posting is about digging in and writing within an ongoing narrative. I’m still trying to balance working with the backlog and writing longer research notes and spending some time at the start or end of the day producing a solid page of brilliant prose. It’s about the process. It’s about taking the time to write on a daily basis.

Dr. Nels Lindahl