Okay, so today I decided to mess around with something I’ve been calling “zheng prediction.” It’s not as fancy as it sounds, trust me. Basically, I wanted to see if I could predict… well, something. I don’t even remember what, to be honest. It was one of those “let’s see what happens” kind of days.
First, I gathered some data. This was the most boring part. It involved staring at a spreadsheet for, like, an hour. I think I even dozed off for a few minutes there. I copied and pasted stuff, made sure the columns lined up – you know, the usual exciting data stuff.
Then, I opened up my trusty coding environment. Nothing special, just a basic setup I use for these little experiments. I imported a couple of libraries – I think one was for handling the data, and another was supposed to help with the “prediction” part. Honestly, I just copied and pasted the import lines from an old project. Don’t judge!
The Messy Part (aka Coding)
This is where things got a bit… chaotic. I wrote some code to load the data, then I tried to apply some kind of prediction algorithm. I’m pretty sure I messed up the parameters at least three times. I kept getting weird errors, and I had to Google a bunch of stuff. Stack Overflow was my best friend today, as usual.
I added a few print statements here and there, just to see what was going on. It’s like leaving breadcrumbs in the forest, except the forest is made of code and the breadcrumbs are just text. I’m not even sure if that analogy makes sense.
- Struggle 1: Figuring out the right format for the data.
- Struggle 2: Remembering which function did what.
- Struggle 3: Trying not to throw my computer out the window.
The “Results” (aka Did It Work?)
After a lot of trial and error (mostly error), I finally got something that looked like a prediction. Did it actually predict anything useful? Probably not. But hey, at least the code ran without crashing! That’s a win in my book.
I looked at the output, scratched my head, and thought, “Well, that was… something.” I’m not going to pretend I understood what it all meant. But I learned a few things along the way, mostly about how much I don’t know about prediction algorithms.
So, that’s my “zheng prediction” adventure for today. It wasn’t pretty, but it was definitely an experience. Maybe tomorrow I’ll try something a little less ambitious. Like, I don’t know, predicting the weather by looking out the window.
