Alison

Hunter Yoda, sound asleep on the sofa. I didn't expect to see his ears like that when he was relaxed, and some claws poking out on his paws.
#Caturday #CatsOfMastondon

I'd forgotten how much I like knitting a lace scarf! Feather and Fan pattern with a 3 stitch border, yarn in Aimee Sher Makes Comfort Silk Linen, in the Forget-me-not colour.
#Knitting #LaceKnitting #YarnBothering

Went to the Midwest Fiber Festival last weekend, tried Nalbinding for the first time in a 3 hour class.

Came home and cast on for a lace scarf with new yarn, and, after 5 years of stalling, started a video class in indirect warping for my loom. It's a way to get long warps without needing the space for a direct warp and lengths of yarn that cats love to mess with.

#Knitting #Weaving #Nalbinding #YarnBothering

Moss and lichen growing on the outside windowsill of my father's nursing home room in Gloucestershire. I love the hairy look of the moss on the right.
#Mosstodon #LichenSubscribe

My purple poppy mallow is going to flower! This is the first bud of four, on a stalk the plant shot out sideways from the main plant.
#Gardening #NativePlants #BloomScrolling

The three plants I added this year seem to be getting along nicely. One unexpected addition is the purple coneflower I planted last year. It had been munched to the ground by a deer and I assumed it was dead. But now it's back!

All three Rattlesnake Master plants came back, one of them is now four plants and one is very small. The Rose Verbena was spreading wildly, I removed some of it to give space for the newcomers.
#Gardening #NativePlants

Hoping i can get past the 35th repeat on my Feather and Fan lace scarf this week. I've made mistakes and ripped back 3 times already.

I do not give any grace or mercy to myself on this piece, it's for me and I know I can get it right. It'll bug me if I find a mistake.

The Aimee Sher Comfort Linen Silk yarn took the unraveling well, it still looks good.

#Knitting #LaceKnitting #YarnBothering

Took my indirect warp off the warping board and got it on the loom! It's been 3 years since I warped up my loom, and this is the first indirect warp and the first solo warp I've done.

#Weaving #RigidHeddleLoom

Made a new personal best at the gym today, 548lb on the leg press! That's a number I never thought was possible.

https://www.quantumtea.com/weight-lifting-personal-records/

#FediFitness #WeightLifting

Poking around with sentiment analysis on the public domain copy of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

I extracted the speech, did a strict attribution, and ran sentiment analysis for different speakers based off chunks sampled from the text.

Elizabeth is neutral with a 28% confidence level, Jane is joyful at a 57% confidence. Darcy is sad with 94% confidence and Mrs Bennet is joyful at 95% confidence.

Those aren't the emotions I get from reading the text. Again, I'm learning more about the sentiment analysis than the text.
https://www.kaggle.com/code/alisonhawke/pride-and-prejudice

#DataScience #Python #Literature #TextAnalysis #SentimentAnalysis

Switched my phone from a Pixel 8 to a Pixel 10a and it was a bumpy ride. The text message backup would not restore, data wouldn't copy across, Google Wallet won't load and didn't load on the old phone either.

The stuff that does work is the stuff I pay for, Fastmail, 1Password, and my VPN. Those are solid and reliable.

I had a way to export text messages, so nothing is lost, but the Android Switch app was useless.

#PixelPhone #Android