 Hey folks, it's been six weeks. I've got a chunk of development video. Let's take a look at that first We could break that box open We could basically turn it inside out and have hardware that could be expanded as needed Like tiling out a bigger ballroom floor after the dancing has already started If we're gonna make those three Right in here. We need to clear out These two to extend these down redo some of this wiring. We could plug up Loads three internally Powered up get it updated Shut it down then put in the data only connectors between them and Bring it back up this This is the Building extending the ballroom floor after the dancing has already started. So the thought is What do you think the odds are that we could do all this and Not disrupt this Current run that I think the odds are very very low, but what the hell let's give it a try our injector Which we can use this one. Well, we can just leave this for the moment So we can disconnect this Series tiles and we will revisit ones in the later lotuses Splitter and that brand new supply Three for the first time we're disconnected 170 watts 170 watts is this thing's booting these down from these And then think about They only really hot. This is not a good one. So This This is not a good. So whatever taking 50 watts through this thing, it's too much for this All right Put in G-Series here. Just kind of single connection So hopefully it'll update all these guys in fact Hopefully it'll update them to the 2d printer 165 and 170 Change watts One Lotus 2 Lotus 3 the laptop and the Fuji plus the UPS overhead I think we are getting to the point So power down Loads 3 I'm sorry to get home with connectors and then power it up So that's it that's the birth of Lotus 3 Lotus 3 is fine. I haven't had a Eugene run going on it for a couple of weeks I guess almost now that'll be up soon There's a bunch of issues about that so The watt meter that's measuring the whole thing. We're at 170 watts for 3 Lotuses I don't think we're going to be able to go all the way to 7 and be running it through a single UPS and a single list that and The other thing I have to deal with that the bigger more immediate issue is heat In some of these demos Once you know to look for it that things often seem to be running slowly in the middle and they run quicker around the Edges and it's true It's not a it's not an illusion because the edges have two advantages number one They have fewer other tiles connected to them. So they have less load on them They only have to talk in two or three or four directions instead of six directions but also they're closer to fresh air and Once these tiles Heat up above a bunch of thresholds that I stuck in there. They start cranking down the CPU so The I've you know been planning on doing something to get you know CPU fans or something to stick in the bookshelves behind it to pull air out So there's some positive flow going through the thing. It's time to move on that. All right, so that's the development story I Took the month of March off. It's been six weeks The goals was to get GDRO user space spikes. What the heck is that? That's Generalized distributed ring oscillator. This is the new idea for a way to have a low level best effort sink Among the tiles to agree who's turned it is and they pass a token around in a nice robust self-stabilizing way Got nowhere got nothing on it We'll talk about that in a sec Build Lotus 3 did it make search quiet wake the science fiction story more accessible to try to get it out there I mean the point of you know, I'm convinced that there is an audience for the story as it stands But since part of the whole point of doing outreach with a science fiction story is to try to reach a little bit of a bigger Audience it seems to me It's it's legitimate to try to say is there some easy steps that we could do to make the story a little bit more easy For people to get their heads around I have some done some work around that the other goal was have some fun All right, so the development story is Lotus 3 next step is cooling the research story was you know Getting this redo Bottom-up best effort be more UDP ish and less TCP ish rather than assuming permanent reliable stream Just take it as it lays Didn't work on it at all now partly that was because I had a terrible writers block on a separate Bit of writing just regular scientific writing that I was supposed to be due that wasted a ton of time Well invested a ton of time whatever you think But also I am getting concerned about how much big hacking I still have in me You know, I it's hard to find four hours to put together and if I do it's hard to stay on task You know, I need some of these study drugs. There's just there's something. I don't know So that's a concern I have I haven't I haven't given up I you know, there's always been excuses so far and I still want to go on this But it's taken long enough that I that you know just being honest. I Don't know. Maybe things are changing We'll see about that going forward So that's the research story not very satisfying. Oh, yeah, there's more a little bit more about development So I did order one of these USB temperature sensors That Supposedly you can talk to with Linux and and you can and it's got its own set of problems and so forth like it comes out You know five degrees centigrade off So you have to add numbers to it and I think what's really going on is you're supposed to use the software, you know The windows only software mini CD that comes with it To calibrate the thing and just out of the box. It's not calibrated properly But you know so far a constant offset seems to be not too far off and so now it's recording in the room called the dark room where the The grid is growing We're watching the temperature start to go up and down and so forth So we've got at least a baseline to understand something about what's going on in the room when we start to get the actual cooling Okay, so my goal for the science fiction story search quiet wake which I've been talking about for months here My new attitude is you know the goal is to increase its rejection count. It's only been rejected once that's unacceptable It should be rejected twice three four times if need be Like that so the plan is to do some of these rewrites to make it a little bit more accessible I have a little blurb paragraph that put at the front that I think you know sort of helped set the stage and you know I talked to one one of my early readers who liked it the way it was and and he said you know He could see how that might help, but he could also see how an editor might just say get rid of it Like that, you know, which is fine if I get as far as having an editor and they want to get rid of it That would be wonderful But the goal then is before the next update To submit the story to get it's a second rejection from Clark's World magazine and You know, it's I thought since I'd sent it as miles magazine and I thought this was Arthur C. Clark, but it's not it's it's Neil Clark the editor of the American Arts World and you know look, you know He the current issue has got a story by Greg Egan. Greg Egan's a big time science fiction writer I am a Greg Egan fanboy, you know, here's the story. I haven't gone to read it yet but they take You know open they have an online submission system a lot like the Asimovs things they actually care about the cover letter So I need to spend a little bit more time on that and then they Neil Clark gives some hints on the very very helpful on what you need to put it what would be good to put it And what wouldn't be put in but you know, look at this this is our average response time is typically under two days That's because they reject everything so My goal is, you know, within say the next week To make the accessibility rewrites to search quiet wake to get it in there and to get it rejected before the next update so that's the plan on the story and If there's news interim news, I will I will mention it on the t2 discord t2 tile project discord server that we have so Folks there hip to discord Could you know check in there to get our earlier news if there is any okay? That's the search quiet wake story And that's and right so then the only point was to have some fun actually managed to do that too and You know, it's funny I sort of imagine that that folks who you know have actual lives and occasionally give like scientific talks or whatever it is You know, it kind of goes without saying that you know, they have fun and they do these things they go to movies Whatever the heck it is, you know, but you know, I kind of do all do this a lot of time in the day So sort of actually putting in have some fun. It is an actual thing So number one, so, you know, I wrote these new verses for the 12 days of Christmas 12 steps to robust And I'm actually trying to work on singing it And you know, I haven't sung since elementary school since I was a soprano and So I've been you know, googling random web pages about learn to drop your larynx and sing from your diaphragm and So on and you know watching random YouTube videos and so forth. And you know, I think the long and short of it is I I Can I can I don't sound great. I'm not a singer, but I can sound okay on this specific song The 12 steps to robust except for picking new metrics except for that which which sails a little bit out of my range You might my range is like about four notes wide So I have to figure out what to do about that But you know, hey, it was a new thing and it was actually kind of fun And you know, I'm recording little takes and then listening to them ouch And it's better than it was You know a little sense of progress and just like do any new thing you get the low hanging fruit So that was fun. In addition, we took a day trip. We drove out into the the Hemes in northern New Mexico To look at the red rocks and see the old churches along the way There's some red rocks and even though it was like the absolute end of March We actually managed to have a little lovely snowstorm to have our picnic in and so forth. So it was actually a lot of fun So that was great Okay, and that's it really Six weeks but now back on cadence and so Two weeks from now April 26th So the goal bump the SQW rejection count Try again on getting G draw user spikes going But also for the development actually have a demo somehow of an external fan I bought a fan that could be used but I got to come up with something to Drive a 12 volt supply for it and some way it would be optimal to have some way to control the speed It's got these little things in it But I don't know exactly how to work that out and connect it to the laptop or a raspberry pi or something We'll see maybe that'll end up counting having some fun, too We shall see Folks whether you're here live or watching the updates later. Thanks so much for coming Europe is still at war people are dying by the thousands. It's awful, but you know Keep looking for hope and progress Don't know what to say except, you know Sentence of money, you know, whatever not doing very much here But do a little bit and then in the rest of the time just sort of put one foot in front of the other And keep on trying to make progress whatever it is. So we're doing all right. I hope y'all are doing all right, too Thanks so much for coming by