#kathb

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I … just quit my job. I stood up, went to my boss and talked to him like a dreamwalker. But now I feel better. It was just too much. Now I go home, sleep for 18 hours and don’t look at a screen until I don’t get a headache from it anymore. Which might be in a month or two. So don’t wait for stuff from me for some time. Bye.

PS: I might or might not have sent parts of the code to data protection lawyers. Sorrynotsorry.

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I just came home crying from overworking myself. I hadn’t even the power to post something yesterday. The new work was completely fine the first two days and then it all went to hell. Marketing is running around with fake happy faces to calm down everybody but no-one is believing them. The lawsuits come in like spam mails. And we get told to fix this and fix that and please before yesterday. Just without the please and with an more offensive tone. They don’t pay me enough for this.

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Heading home, finally. There was a moment when I thought I had to sleep at my desk tonight but my colleague sent me home. We both worked for 12 hours today and he thought it’s enough. But I start at the beginning:

Yesterday I went to management to report the thing with the cat emotion algorithm. I wanted to say that we need the time to re-train the algorithm and to propose to do something with cat emotions. Instead I heard that they changed plan and launched a couple of products the same day. Most of it was on barely alpha-testing level but they didn’t care.

You can imagine how that ended: we got bad recommendations on every platform, the bug reports on my desk exploded in amount and I know of at least one law suit for a security breach. Those departements won’t clock off today. (Lucky me that I’m in software development.)

I spent the last two days fixing bugs I usually have a year of time for and I’m tired. Needless to say that I don’t have any weekend at all and have to be there again tomorrow. I don’t want to.

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Guess where I am. Yes, exactly. At work. I’m not even here for a week and have more overtime than regular work hours. It’s just a five-minutes break, so I don’t know how much I can tell you atm, but things happened yesterday and now I’m here and I’m completely stressed. I know there is a poor soul in marketing who’s working too and the complete IT departement is running in circles, because management made a decision yesterday and we have to pay for it. I have to go. I tell you more when - if - I come home tonight

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Slow progress is still progress

Good morning. I just checked in on the algorithm. I fed it some other stuff than cat content yesterday and I can say that it’s learning. It doesn’t laugh at Titanic anymore. No tears yet but baby steps.

On the other hand. We are probably No. 1 in the world for cat emotion detection. I should talk with the marketing folks about this

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Found it

I can’t believe it. I actually don’t know if I should laugh or cry about it. I found the flaw. Bug. Whatever. It took me a while to check the database entries but here’s the thing: in testing stage the algorithm was trained on cats. Turns out, that has been never changed. This means, we are now really good at detecting how grumpy the grumpy cat exactly is, but with people it gets a bit fuzzy.

Meow.

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Something’s wrong

Okay, I know our Marketing departement is already all out, but I might have seriously bad news for them. I can’t place it yet but something’s really wrong with the emotion detection algorithm. I just ran a test and let it watch Titanic and the results say it found it a pretty funny movie.

So, now I’m pulling an all-nighter on my second day to make that algorithm cry. Yay -.-

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Kudos to the coder

Hey, I promised you an updade, but actually I haven’t found that much till now. The best - and that’s probably just funny for other programmers - I found today was the complete lyrics of Pokerface by Lady Gaga inserted in the code of a lie detector that works with our software. Now the song is stuck in my head. But kudos for the efford.