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5 things that are worth the money to me:

oura ring 5

solidcore membership

hatch restore alarm clock

vintage coach bags

gentle monster sunglasses

i'm still unhappy for a variety of (people-related) reasons but i've been distracting myself a lot also so that's ok

how summer is going so far:

i've been really into boutique fitness classes lately....i have an unlimited annual membership at my local hot yoga studio, and i recently started up an 8x/month solidcore membership. these are definitely pricing (esp. solidcore, even with a student discount) but in my defense: (1) i've been cutting back on eating out / going out for drinks and cooking at home mostly, (2) i find this type of exercise extremely time-efficient and the post-workout dopamine increase is real, and (3) my other hobbies are effectively free.

my main research project has been going really bad for awhile but i finally knuckled down over the past few weeks and made some progress. the key is to have as many slurm jobs running as possible at all hours of the day, and to spam your ai agent religiously (esp if your company currently has unlimited token usage). rn i am partial to claude code, but i've heard that codex is better. the last few days has been an emotional rollercoaster because sometimes numbers look really good after pre-training but drop a lot after post-training (i'm working on interventions for a late stage of pre-training). so yeah that sucks....i'm also not sure how to frame the paper, which is definitely going to be part analysis and part method...we have so many findings that are inconsistent and don't make sense...

in the meantime, i need to make my poster for icml, which i've been severely procrastinating on....if i'm productive tmrw i'll go to school to print it and get it in a tube. i also want to start up a chill side project where i'm not the only one doing all the technical work but i don't really have a concrete idea.

it's stone fruit season! there are pretty regular produce discounts at whole foods, and i really like their black plums and plucots in particular. and the very sweet multi-colored cherry tomatoes. i also use a chinese grocery delivery service fairly regularly and get bananas and mandarin oranges.