Shannon's Journal, Volume 3

[Shannon]

For a few of days now I have had an interesting thing playing out in my mind.On the one hand, I had part of me alerting my conscious mind to the fact that I need to increase the number of loops to achieve the best results from UMSv2. On the other hand, every time I would realize this, another part of my mind would find ways to distract me from finding the right number of loops to run. I noted this pattern over the last three days, realized what was going on and decided to put an end to it. It turns out that for me, 3 loops per day on is necessary, instead of 2.

I am going to make AutoConfig vastly more powerful and obvious in 5.8G. Can't wait for that. My subconscious was indicating I needed to up the number of loops by referencing my surprised response at Keith choosing 5 loops per day on. At first I thought it was telling me to run 5 loops also, but then I started realizing that it was trying to emphasize increase based on the most obvious reference to such a thing it could find. I think it was being sabotaged by the part that wanted to make me forget to find the right number of loops, and instead of trying to give me the number, it tried to link the communication to a more impactful emotional event, which was my surprise at 5 loops.

We are definitely headed in the right direction with AutoConfig, though. My goal is to have you be able to start off with 1 loop per day and have AutoConfig guide you to the right format, player, volume, time of day, and combination of options otherwise. Exciting things coming!

Watching UMS work almost feels like having the cheat codes to the universe, except I know this isn't cheating!