 So the claim is is that this is hugely laggy pop what a happy sound Now we've gone to 500 Six hundred five fifty five seventy five. So four hundred. We're expecting it to be clearly worse off looking for Consistency seven hundred seven five. I'm calling seven fifty I think switch the encoder preset to ultra fast trying the NVIDIA in Vinc. Well, that seems to be a little frickin progress We're back to six hundred millisecond now. We have upped The CPU speed from 1.2 gigahertz to it's like four Oh, is this all so much more perky now? So now we claim We are doing twenty five something 1440 P back to 400. Okay. Now. We're at one hundred seconds TV tiny ins is Fucking breakthrough. Thank you Amazon 64 millisecond. I'm not Convinced which way to go. Hey folks, welcome back to T Tuesday updates It's Great the police are after me. It's been six weeks since my last confession And what I'm gonna do today is mostly just top stories and get through it as quick as possible And we'll see how we did so the mission For well not not for November But for the rest of the year was to actually build the ring that build the build the grid Where do you have a ring? build the grid and I Hemdenhardt I did a little bit of preparation and so forth, but I didn't do any of the things that I knew I should do in particular You know, I had this idea that would be fun to do a build fest and you know People could get together and we could you know work and and everybody could build some t2 tiles And it would make a thing out of it and I would like to make a thing out of it But now I'm chicken That you know one of the local supporters one of my biggest supporters has got space that they would make available but Number one that means leading Making plans significantly ahead of you know an absolute drop dead deadline and I just couldn't pull the trigger I couldn't say you know second week in December and then third week fourth week, you know Holidays get pretty bad. So I'm saying okay. I have already pre-failed But I'm still thinking that you know in January something like that We could we could get it done reasonably quickly and I know it's frustrating because you know, you know my progress Something happening we have other kinds of progress today and I actually feel pretty okay about it But you know the big picture needs to move forward to it can't just be side trips but you know so With omicron and whether that turns out to be bigger small, you know, we're yet to find out But it may just be that the easiest thing to do is just plug away at it in-house And I'm not sure how long it would actually take how many days So we'll see like I said, you know, I would have liked to have seen folks That what might be interested in helping out the ones that are still in the Albuquerque area But we'll see in any event. I'm saying, you know, okay We have to make some kind of serious progress by the next update Which would include, you know, at very least the inventory of parts so that we know how much theoretically we can actually make And I want to make at least one new tile just to refresh the whole mechanism on that So please hold me to that if you possibly can all right, that's building the thing the grid in addition we've got this This new workstation this new Multi-thousand-dollar workstation that I've been deploying over the last month and so that led to several nice episodes of Dave the genius Did you did you catch what was going on in that in that opener there? You know, this is how it took, you know, just a couple of days of debugging and anxiety For Dave to discover the power-save performance switch, you know Turning myself inside out trying to find out why the performance was so bad And it's because the the cores were running at 1.2 Instead of 4 plus. So okay, so now the workstation is actually settling down and it's nice Okay, it's really nice. The renders are much faster and OBS is barely even breaking a sweat to do all of this stuff and so on So yay great Just took the longest time to get there In addition, there was a lot of progress There was kind of a little breakthrough even in this whole idea of how we gonna Synchronize a plate and L1 plate and L2 plate something in general which I had been trying to do with this rock paper scissors red green blue Stuff that I've been talking about for, you know weeks and months in the development of L2 plates specifically and You know, I got this new approach which was a derivative of the approach used on the actual Electrical connections of the T2 tiles And I re-implemented it in software and it worked good. It worked really good. And so I made a A research notebook video and put it over on the Dave Ackley channel So I'm not going to talk about the details of it too much I will link in card and so forth to that video But I'm feeling pretty good about the Ringo Quark and the apis for that and the concept of gdro the generalized Distributed ring oscillator. So that's fun In addition, the original story for taking November off was to do nano-remo the national novel writing month Where the goal is you know the default goal you can make any goal you want But the official default goal is write 50,000 words on a novel in the month of November This is now the third time that I've done it and in 2019 I wrote a big chunk. I think you know 35,000 that felt like big big chunk to me Even though it wasn't 50k, but it was a chapter one. It was a chapter two It was part of a chapter three. It was a significant part of a chapter three Maybe most of a chapter three and then stalled out there because What I was clearly writing was like going to be an epic trilogy And you know, how am I ever going to make enough time at the rate that I write to do it? So it just sat there and stood I worked on it in 2020 and my goal for 2021 nano-remo was dasho kumo Dave short story cut month And so instead of trying to expand a novel to 50k in a month I was trying to cut down to 5k. That was myself adopted Short story limit. Obviously short stories can be smaller or longer than that in the month of november and Oh, yeah, I forgot that I had little demos for this Well, I will I will do I will do this one first. I'll do my out of water. What the heck Let's see if this works. So they're The software So the idea was to take chapter two From the novel and boil it down to a standalone short story And I have the software set up so that every time I actually build it It puts a data point of how many the word count and the date Um, and that's where this graph comes from so originally on 11 early in november I started blank slate and then Did a few little things and then you know in the 11th of November I imported a whole ton of stuff did a little bit over the next week and a half and then after Thanksgiving I got really serious about as you can see And I actually managed to get down below 5,000 words and I've continued working on this on december 1st and december 2nd and then start stop to do other stuff then But it's actually I think going to take off dropping again here in a second And so, you know, I'm feeling pretty good about this. There is one significant hole left in it But the so it's sort of alternating Little narrative plot story bits interleaved with little history backstory stuff It's told from the point of view. There's there it was when I finally got serious about cutting the heck out of it It's told from the point of view of 2059 And uh the Yeah, I was also fighting with the comcaster that part well So the history sections are looking back at our present time before and after from 2059 And so forth and so at the tail end So the idea is the history starts at the early hardware of this new idea And then develops in the end of the history is talking about the new ideas for software And that's supposed to dovetail into the narrative plot story that we've been reading all the way through the short story and so that Is all looking pretty good except for the last little history bit of the software stuff I need to rework. So that's that's the hole that remains But I'm gonna I mean I can taste it now. I can I can finish this. I really can and so The question is what to do with it um What you know I am I am not a fiction author. I've never published it. Well, I've never published any fiction for money I've never published any fiction where an editor bought anything Like that But I've been researching it just to think I mean, you know, because what the heck I've read worse stories than this my worry actually is that I've concentrated it down too much And it's gonna it may be overwhelming To people it's gonna it's gonna read super rushed It's gonna read like the ultra condensed sort of novel that it is squished down into a short story I hope that's not true. We shall see But it may be a non-starter for folks. I don't know, you know, I think it's kind of funny. I enjoy it So I've been learning about how does it work? How do you send? Submit stories to science fiction magazines and so on and so forth And I've learned about Fnazor Fnazor Which is first north american Serial rights and that's the typical thing that Science fiction magazines want to buy from you plus in addition rights to put it in anthologies and stuff like that and so, you know, it's kind of weird because I go to these writers Sites where they've got stuff. They're happy to tell you happy to explain to you the ropes for your new novice writers like me And it's all about okay. You want to be careful that you don't sell too many rights You know selling first north american serial rights or first global serial rights or first english language serial rights You can slice it and dice it lots of ways as long as nothing overlaps Is all fine But you don't want to give away the copyright Overall and you want to be careful about giving away archiving and You know database assembly and putting it available online and in the internet and so forth And the reason for that it seems clear in the writer's sites is because the author may want to monetize the story in other ways And you know, that's the thing in my case. I don't you know, I'm lucky Done well enough, you know boomer lucky That you know trying to make a living off of this story is not my actual issue And I'm more concerned about trying to just get as many get in front of as many eyes as possible And submitting it to these magazines, you know, actually limits the the number of eyes that can see it Just uh, if you're supposed to be a subscriber or buy a copy of the issue or whatever it happens to be So I want to know that you know the finazer, you know Must have a time period a lockup time an embargo or something like that That you know after it's the first north american serial rights have been published then you know Two seconds later. I can put it up on a website six months later. What is it? I don't know I can't actually find any of the specific contracts. It seems like the way it works is you turn in the story They pay eight to ten cents a word for the length that i'm going to be at So I might have be be talking 350 to 400 dollars payment If you know in these are the top things fantasy and science fiction f and s f Like that apparently they're the biggest circulation There is analog is one that I remember for my kid Although I didn't really buy science fiction magazines when I was growing up I bought you know cheap novels pulp paper novels, you know hind-line things and whatnot And you know azmab's magazine. I never actually read Although he was one of my brush with celebrities I actually shared a cab with Isaac azmab on a way to a meeting We were both going to once way back when in the city So, you know, you're not supposed to be sending to these folks These are the cream of the crop as far as science fiction is concerned and there's zillions of other places You can go to get experience, you know, they will pay you an exposure That sort of thing But you know what the heck I think it's a good story Or at least I think it's a competently written story compared to some of the ones I've read out there that have been published So I don't know what to do The the biggest problem I've got is how long they sit on it, you know fantasy and science fiction I think they say, you know, they you none of them want to allow simultaneous submissions You have to send it to them and just them and wait for them to answer f and s f say they might take eight weeks Analog says they might take four months Asimov at least says If you haven't heard something in 45 days, you can send them an email paying and so forth And so it would seem like, you know, the lower you are on the feeding pole The you know, the quicker you need to turn it around so that you might I don't know try the higher ones than then weight and lower ones I don't know Does anybody know anything about this or even if you don't know anything about it You just have opinions you pull out of your butt interested to hear what people think Should I just put it up on a website? Should I try to get the imprimatur? Of having it be published by a science fiction magazine. I think that would be kind of fun I don't know what to do. That's coming up Oh, and the title of the story the title of the short story is search quiet wake Here's the opening line New Hampshire earth august 2059 Under a rumpled sheet 10 year old dicks was oversleeping again Now I've realized that dicks might seem to be an unfortunate choice of protagonist's name But it's too late. It's kind of baked in and you know, okay, it's dicks Anyway, that's where we go from there. All right Oh, yeah, and I I saw I skipped should I just skip it? Well, what the heck I'll go back So we forgot to look at the first Clip of the the stuff having to do with the new more robust Synchronization local synchronization stuff. So let's just look at that real quickly and then jump ahead All right So this is the l2 place. This was back late october and the key here is if you look at them You can see them jamming up with like blue next to greek. Yeah there that guy's, you know That was using the old technique and then and I was getting more and more frustrated trying to put it together Um, and so this is when I was switching over to this new approach Which I didn't know how to describe it in when I implemented it the code that I implemented in the uh Electrical level of the t2 tiles calls it symmetric interclocking because it's kind of like that But I'm looking further it you know ring oscillator is the easiest way to present it to understand it And so the development went through, you know, lots of stages and Clearly stayed in focus. I mean, this is just little little clips that I put together over the course of a month Uh, uh, there's the fighting with comcast again. So this was somewhat interleaved with the Search quiet wake the writing and all the other stuff because it's the way it works But this is the important point. Look at that. That is l2 plate moving We never had that before and even in this case I was actually moving the individual little l2 sites Individually by releasing tectons around them But I couldn't have even done that before with the previous code base because the l2 plate would have been freaking out About the l2 sites being in the wrong position because they had moved a little bit So now we can actually do that there. Everything is nicer. Everything's cleaner And we're on the way to using the ring go ring oscillator generalized distributed ring oscillator synchronization mechanism To uh to hold together the plate and then get it moving under its own steam It needs uh, I needed to redesign the Ringo code base a little bit more so that a given single atom might actually be able to take part in more than one Ring oscillator because that's actually what we want We want one synchronization level for the entire l2 plate And we want another synchronization level for each individual little l2 site So that they can keep track of have I moved the guy? Am I done shipping myself one square in one direction? And in addition, I'm passing the big circuit the big loop through uh for the whole l2 plate. So, all right All right, so that's a little bit out of order, but that's where we were And so what else do we have? Oh, yeah, so the uh the video Robust local synchronization where I actually tried hard and made up some Slides some figures that don't completely suck and so forth Uh to describe how all this works. That's up on the uh Dave Ackley channel And you know, it's you know at the time of this screen grab it had been up for 21 hours and uh 24 minutes And you know, it was only number five out of eight of my own videos on the Dave Ackley channel As far as you know performance for the first 21 hours and 24 minutes But it already had uh 215 views which is more than Any of the last four t Tuesday updates have gotten in their entire existence So it's doing okay and and and people are seeming to like it and so forth So I feel good about that and I feel like it was worth the you know Significant number of hours that I put in on on getting pulling that together I also managed to use that to do drive the whole obs and workstation redo and so forth. So hopefully We are not uh having in the middle of a train wreck here, but this is going actually relatively smoothly. Okay. That's that Oh in addition We have a discord server, which I you know I don't know if we've already if the the cool kids already moved on beyond that But as far as I know, it's the cool thing and uh be Willow uh a New voice I think in the t2 universe I think got this set up and and we've been trying it and and there's the A link to the new video In there and so I don't I don't really know very much about how discord works I understand like it's possible to actual voice communication. I have to see that's like But that's there now, you know, and I'm so I'm not exactly sure what happens to our little chat room our little getter dot I am thing there seem to be rules about you know, you can't just instantly I mean with the chat room anybody that makes a github account can just immediately be there The discord thing seems to be a little bit more restricted, you know, you have to be invited or let in or something I don't know the details will find out but I'm excited Folks are excited and people are there and chatting. So that's up as well. And that's it really The month was good. I mean, I got technical stuff done. I got, you know, writing fiction stuff done And I just actually, you know kicked back a little bit and wasted time a little more I wasted time with less anxiety Than usual put it that way um And and so that's that's all for the good and I'm reasonably raring to go I'm certainly raring to finish search quiet wake and you know Decide what to do with it, you know, get get a few very very early eyes looking at it Maybe and we'll see where we are. So that's it for the next update will be december 21 At mountain noon mountain time and the goals. These are the same goals that we had I had before The november break have some fun and build some damn grid where that actually means physically assemble at least one more tile Thank you so much for stopping by. Uh, I hope things are going reasonably well with you and you know the pandemic Pandemics don't end. Uh, it's very strange. Uh, like that Uh, as I speak, I guess it's still too soon to know whether omicron is going to be Worse or the same or maybe not worse as far as how bad cases you get But it seems clear that it's way more infectious. So we're going to be dealing with it for quite some time Step by step I hope to see you in two weeks. I hope you're having a good time and you know We'll see you next time