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Title: Unexpected Slowdowns
Date: 03-04-2022
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Towards the middle of the week a vivacious feeling of confidence took
possession of me. I thought I've finished a first portion of the thesis work.
What a big mistake. Wednesday morning a first test gave bad results, showing
that a major update on the algorithm I was working on was necessary. "You have
to break your head" told me my professor. And he was damn right.

During the next days I desperately tried to extend the code, but nothing seemed
to work. Only yesterday I faced the dire reality: my code was simply broken.
The good results I had achieved were a lucky coincidence. I felt so miserable
and lost. The whole day was spent searching for a fix. And hopefully a fix
popped up.

This week was a real roller coster of emotions. I think I can learn a lesson
from all of this: excessive feelings are never a good thing when it comes to
code.