Good morning! Happy National Bird Day 🐧 !

Birds the word. That said this winter has been mild enough that bird feeders aren’t as effective as some years.

It’s cloudy and 31 degrees in Bethlehem, NY. ☁ There is a south breeze at 14 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 24 mph 💨💨💨. The current wind chill is 18. Things will start to thaw out at around 9 am. 🌡️

State of the State Day today in Albany. 🏣 I’m sure the traffic and the protestors will be back although I’m taking the local bus so I’ll probably miss most of that today. I won’t get my steps in so I’ll probably have to walk 🚶 after work. I certainly won’t be walking the plaza with all those anti-vaccine protestors out there, probably half of which currently have the COVID.

Kind of a cold and windy morning in the early hours ⏰ but it’s warming up quickly. I turned the heat down before leaving for work. That heated blanket certainly keeps me warm at night – I usually keep it at the lowest setting if not turned off after a little while.

Been thinking about some machine learning projects I could do. 🤖 I’ve been reading a lot about how to use machine learning in R, which I previously learned about in Python. But so far I’ve come up short on projects that would be good for machine learning. But I’m sure there is many projects I can use for it.