Still working 10 to 24 every day (13 to 24 on weekends). I don’t feel incredibly tired. If anything, because I don’t do much else and I dont have many problems sleeping (Melatonin came to the rescue !).
I’m into the 7th chapter of the Penrose book. Went quickly thought real numbers calculus. Now onto complex number calculus.
I mostly read it while I’m on the train, or waiting it (at night they come less often). I’m not satisfied however, because I don’t have the time even to try solve the basic exercises that the book proposes. In fact, I think that I will eventually need to buy another book, just to refresh the calculus part.. including a good dose of exercises. Exercises are very important, it’s what makes you realize that you actually understood something.
Plain explanations don’t generally seem to work too well, I prefer to put myself through practical exercises, waiting for my brain to eventually make the connections; to come up with a satisfactory vision that makes me feel like I grasped the concept and that I can potentially use it.

Still no study of Japanese, although my level of communication is steadily increasing at the workplace.. which is more out of necessity than as a result of any improbable outstanding improvement.

At work I’m in a stage in which everything is put down quickly, with little regard for code cleanliness. Plus I’ve been optimizing (= trying to insert bugs) for bandwidth transmission. I’m working with VDP (XBox 360’s UDP-like packet transmission) and that means that one has to cope with potential packet loss, therefore, for real-time performance, one has to implement some sort of redundancy.. which is also nice to have to fix eventual design issues that can potentially arise in these situations. It’s a bit like doing organ transplant, throwing in a bunch of anti-rejection drugs to do the patching.
Sometimes I change something and a cascade of issues rolls down. Then I have to juggle the issues trying to stay calm and believe that in the end it will all work !
The important thing is to never run out of imagination on possible workarounds.. one can do wonders with just glue and duct-tape 8)

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