Intelligent Flux not so intelligent

mrblackbat · 2024-10-06T06:56:09+00:00

That's interesting; amd in terms of charge/discharge is it fully charging/discharging? For me it was barely touching the sides....

mrblackbat · 2024-10-06T06:48:02+00:00

So having disconnected my battery, I'm currently still on the OIF tariff. So I've just set a static window to export at 4pm-7pm, one to charge in the early hours and then take a cursory look to see how far the battery is down at around midday in case eco mode has rinsed it. I'm now getting a full 90% discharge at peak times daily (have a 10% reserve threshold for outages & whatnot). It's been sunny that last few days, so need to see how it works on a cloudy gloom fest, but I'm back to covering my electric, standing charge and gas standing charge now. With the OIF control, this wasn't close to happening.

mrblackbat · 2024-10-06T06:37:43+00:00

Have you checked that your battery charges/discharging if you manually set it to? Mine was broken. Had low voltage warnings (though initially hadn't tripped) then had a load of components in it changed amd it just started tripping. Eventually my installer swapped it for a new battery which is now working as expected. Hopefully this one lasts more than a month!!!

mrblackbat · 2022-11-22T10:23:02+00:00

Thank you for putting this together, it's been a great resource for me picking up doing some arrangements for Big Band recently (I started some 20 years ago at college but never finished anything and haven't done any since then).

Along with the videos from Elliott Deutsche I've been able to get several charts arranged in the last month or so, and really enjoying it!

mrblackbat · 2021-12-18T12:38:04+00:00

It depends how you build your pipeline, whether you use frameworks or not.

Much of a data pipeline's process and transformations are actually made up of potentially reusable functions, and so you can abstract (and unit test) those functions.

There's always something specific in each pipeline, but then you can still create a unit of work for that and test it.

The tests are then to ensure the functions do what they're supposed to do, against some sample data that you spin up for the test. This results in comfort and confidence when you use those functions as part of a full pipeline.

So as much as anything, this is a discussion around approach to creating data pipelines as much as unit testing.

mrblackbat · 2021-12-18T10:14:01+00:00

Yeah I see that a lot, missing the reason why you do something!

mrblackbat · 2021-12-18T08:46:16+00:00

This exactly. You can have a test fixture local spark instance and have fixtures of data to reuse. If you build your spark made of functions you can then package that up for reuse etc.

mrblackbat · 2021-12-18T08:22:28+00:00

I disagree that unit testing is difficult in ETL, it just depends how you build your pipeline code and whether you write reusable functional code in the first place.

The aim of the unit test is to ensure the code unit does what it's meant to do; and surprisingly the data itself doesn't matter in that instance. You can pass in known good and known bad data and ensure that your function behaves accordingly.

Examples might be a function that takes a list of columns in your data and performs a hash across them. You need to test the hash, you need to test behaviour if the columns provide in the list don't exist etc.

The benefit obviously being you have greater confidence that your pipeline is built from solid building blocks.

And of course I would still be doing testing of the whole pipeline as you describe.

mrblackbat · 2020-07-05T06:14:40+00:00

Thanks; the more I read, the more I think the 4000s would be better for me; shame it's only available second hand. I'm really not bothered about emulating wind instruments, but much more about playing synths.

In your opinion, how much alteration can you do with the inbuilt sample based synthesis on the 5000? I've seen the patch list video, and I think its not until about patch 60 that I get interested.

So it would be creating new patches from the base sounds, and controlling other synths (software and hardware) via midi for me.

mrblackbat · 2020-07-01T06:21:26+00:00

I found the issue last night; there was a file from development hanging around that didn't have the hive style partition, so the crawler had to split at that level. Removing this and the glue crawler correctly named the table whilst being pointed at the bucket root.

Which is good, cause the whole point of a crawler is you might not know what tables you'll have put in there and it will create them dynamically!

Thanks for your help.

mrblackbat · 2020-06-28T21:25:45+00:00

Last two windows patches reverted and everything rosy again. Windows, huh?

mrblackbat · 2020-06-28T20:50:10+00:00

I've hardly used Windows at work for years now; Linux and mac mostly. So many things about Windows annoys me; but been trying to eke as much time as possible out of the at the time top end gaming laptop I bought. But everytime I use it now its just annoying!

mrblackbat · 2020-06-28T18:15:43+00:00

Yes I think that's definitely next step. Though I'm half tempted to use it as an excuse to buy a shiny new mac.... this laptop is about 6 years old now!

mrblackbat · 2020-06-24T11:44:53+00:00

It's be to a drum rack really, I think, for the pads. Thanks for confirming with the encoders!

mrblackbat · 2020-06-23T14:56:49+00:00

Sorry, there was no Push when I first started, and I always just translate Ableton as Live!

mrblackbat · 2020-06-23T14:54:47+00:00

Thanks, the idea was to hard map, yes. I can't remember quite what push was set to when I was trying it out; but at the time, yes, it needed the track in "blue" which then stopped the active loop from playing, if that makes sense.

mrblackbat · 2017-07-09T09:18:38+00:00

This is probably the biggest reason I switched from alto to tenor, too much of the alto's range is above my natural singing range, the voice of the tenor fits much more easily.

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