I’ve been working in a laboratory almost a full year now. And I have learned a very crucial fact: experiments rarely work as you like and often don’t work at all.

Considering my last post was four months ago, it is time to evaluate the success of this experiment. This blog was an experiment in the world of science writing. It started as a journal to document my progress on Distributed Neuron. Life and school got in the way, limiting my programming time. Wanting to keep this blog alive, I began writing about science. This was quite enjoyable but alas required too much time and commitment. My updates slacked, slowed and finally disappeared.

The summer is almost upon me. Exams are bearing down but hope is on the horizon. I’m staying at my university this summer to continue my research. Ten weeks of blissful, uninterrupted research (read: frustrating results and unexpected failures intermittently interspersed with glimmers of hope). It will be good.

As always, Distributed Neuron lumbers on. Inch by inch the code is being laid down. Much of the internals have been changed or rewriting. Infact, the entire goal of the project has drastically shifted (several times). I am, however, confident that my current iteration and vision is the one that will make it to the finish line. If the finish line is a Nobel Peace Prize or the dumpster remains to be seen.

This summer will be no less busy than the school year but I desire having a forum to speak about my ideas and updates, regardless of viewership. I am moving this blog back to the original foundation - a journal to document my progress on Distributed Neuron. Perhaps an article or two on science will be written but the bulk will be small updates regarding my code, ideologies and philosophic quandaries encountered while programming.

Onwards.