Week 105

What I pre-planned

• bhai
  • test battery optimizations worked or not
  • integrate wearable with application
  • test multiple real sessions with new pipeline
• output
  • update android target api level to 36
• continue reading ddia
• work
  • give presentation on research and further direction

What new did I learn

• our generation is kind of cooked, positively and negatively
  • right ideas, good motivation, wrong ways and worst social effect
• ai started proving math contradictions, got normal and got memed within the same week 0o0
• tested battery optimizations and with normal use lasted full week with predicted 30days of idle runtime on minimal use
  • from 18hrs of idle runtime to 30 days is bonkers!
• some guy predicted the world cup winners a month ago just using data analytics
• ddia
  • reliability, fault and failure
  • data models and queries, some interesting optimizations like interleaving within blocks (spanner)

Where/How did I implement it

• bhai
  • amazing outcome of battery optimizations
  • reduced resume time from deep sleep from 7s+ to few hundred ms by starting audio storage in RAM until SD card boots
  • lots of new side issues, one big one - time syncing
    • everytime bhAI restarts from pause deep sleep, the time counter resets and starts so no way to know the timestamp of recording
    • tried partial sleep, but then the bff gate causes voltage spikes still reseting the board
      • capacitor helps prevent reset but then sd card unable to mount half the time
  • user interface is now extremely good and intuitive and will get even better
  • sync times are really bad, too slow. improved from less than 10KBps to 50KBps by managing BLE timings and windows
  • the processing on device is still really slow, and vosk is not giving great results on wearable audio quality
    • tried whisper, english is better but too slow and around 0.6x realtime compared to 5x realtime of vosk. not feasible
    • vosk good enough for other languages, but better alternatives will surely help
  • tested indic conformer and have high hopes atleast for the specific languages asr
• output
  • updated productivity apps list and lost calendar data
  • fixed the bugs and issues but found many other and solved them, implemented proper data optimizations to minify data and export feature
  • also updated target API level as play store required it by august 31st
• collectively figured out the hidden flag in the system at work, allowing better research and possible simulation
• tried out xeet by melqtx, its exactly what i needed (was thinking about a week ago) and its good!
• prepared the ITR filing process

Any memorable moments of the week

• made some nice kadhai paneer sabji all by myself within 25mins
• played a lot of zoltraak and the mountain on the flute
• proper original andhra meal experience with niharika and family, fun puzzle solving and playing cards
• played and completed the investigation game - The red pearls of borneo
  • amazing game, such a nice immersive experience and very rewarding. binged till 4 in the morning to complete the main storyline
• very productive weekend with tomorrowland music and more than 5 tasks in parallel
• good dosa and chutney dinner week end