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-# Notes on [[thesis-ideas-2025-07-30]]
-
-What needs done:
-
-- [X] 1 needs edited and reviewed
-    - [X] Review outcomes. I really don't like outcome
-    number 1.
-
-- [X] Review and edit 2
-
-- [X] Review and edit 3
-    - [X] Write an impact section
-
-- [X] Review and edit 4
-    - [X] Needs more goal 
-
-- [X] Review and edit 5
-
-- [X] Review and edit 6
-
-## Discussion Cheat Sheet
-
-Chat helped with this
-
-### Temporal Logic Specifications for Autonomous Controller
-Synthesis
-- **Feasibility:** ★★★★★  
-- **Impact:** ★★★★☆  
-- **Merit:** ★★★★★  
-
-**Scope Boundaries:**  Focus on one subsystem (e.g., rod
-supervisory control), one specification language, and
-existing synthesis tools (TLA+, FRET, Strix).  
-
-**Key Risk:**  State space explosion during synthesis could
-make controller generation intractable.  
-
-**Mitigation Strategy:**  Use bounded abstractions,
-compositional synthesis, and validate the synthesized
-controller on a high-fidelity simulation before scaling up.
-
----
-
-### Formally Verified Runtime Monitoring and Fallback
-- **Feasibility:** ★★★★★  
-- **Impact:** ★★★★☆  
-- **Merit:** ★★★★☆  
-
-**Scope Boundaries:**  Single primary controller with one
-fallback controller, one LTL specification set, and
-integration with ARCADE.  
-
-**Key Risk:**  Limited novelty if scoped too narrowly or
-perceived as a straightforward engineering integration.  
-
-**Mitigation Strategy:**  Emphasize automation of
-specification-to-monitor translation, nuclear-specific
-verification, and proof artifact generation to show novelty.
-
----
-
-### Verified Adaptive Control
-- **Feasibility:** ★★★★☆  
-- **Impact:** ★★★★☆  
-- **Merit:** ★★★★☆  
-
-**Scope Boundaries:**  One subsystem (rod control), one
-adaptation method, runtime contract monitoring only.  
-
-**Key Risk:**  Over-scoping to multiple adaptation targets
-or attempting plant-wide adaptive control.  
-
-**Mitigation Strategy:**  Pick representative degradation
-types (e.g., HX fouling, pump efficiency drop); limit
-adaptation to parameter tuning inside pre-verified safe
-envelopes.
-
----
-
-### Integrating Shielding into Nuclear Power Control
-- **Feasibility:** ★★★★☆  
-- **Impact:** ★★★★☆  
-- **Merit:** ★★★★☆  
-
-**Scope Boundaries:**  One ML control task (e.g., startup or
-load-following), one shield synthesis approach from temporal
-logic.  
-
-**Key Risk:**  Regulatory and industry reluctance toward ML
-in safety-critical nuclear applications.  
-
-**Mitigation Strategy:**  Demonstrate shielding benefits for
-both ML and conventional controllers to broaden acceptance.
-
----
-
-### Improved: Data-Driven Fault Detection Using
-High-Assurance Digital Twins
-- **Feasibility:** ★★★★☆  
-- **Impact:** ★★★★☆  
-- **Merit:** ★★★★☆  
-
-**Scope Boundaries:**  Limit to 3–4 high-impact fault types
-(e.g., secondary coolant loss, HX fouling, sensor drift),
-residual-based detection with physics-informed models.  
-
-**Key Risk:**  Scope creep into too many fault scenarios or
-overly complex ML methods.  
-
-**Mitigation Strategy:**  Focus on explainable,
-physics-informed detection; tie mitigation responses
-directly to NRC-aligned safety procedures.
-
----
-
-### Formally Verified Neural Network Control of Control Rod
-System
-- **Feasibility:** ★★★☆☆  
-- **Impact:** ★★★★☆  
-- **Merit:** ★★★☆☆  
-
-**Scope Boundaries:**  Small, well-structured NN
-architecture; bounded state space; one primary safety
-property (shutdown margin).  
-
-**Key Risk:**  Scalability issues in SMT/MILP verification
-for larger or more complex networks.  
-
-**Mitigation Strategy:**  Constrain network size and
-complexity; limit verification domain to tractable operating
-regions; focus on proof-of-concept that shows
-nuclear-specific applicability.

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 ## Work
 
+Yesterday Dan and I had our meeting about
+[[thesis-ideas-2025-07-30 | topic ideas]]. The results were
+as follows:
+
+5. Integrating Shielding in Nuclear Power
+3. Formally Verified NN CTRL of CRS
+1. Temporal Logic Specifications for Autonomous Control
+   Synthesis.
+1. Formally Verified Runtime Monitoring and Fallback
+6. High Assurance Fault Detection with Digital Twins
+4. Verified Adaptive Control.
+
+The final topic result? 
+
+*Hybrid Controller Synthesis from Temporal Logic
+Specifications* 
+
+The research will be basically a mix of the third and fourth
+idea. More work to come on this one.
+
+I also got roped into making a presentation about Strix for
+next week's meeting. So I must learn about that!
+
 ## Reading
 
+Yesterday I read more of *The Power of Habit* and I learned
+about the **craving**. A craving is what actually makes the
+habit loop work. It was explained to me that the brain
+releases a spike in activity at first when it recognizes the
+reward. Once the cue and routine are associated with the
+reward, the brain over time will deliver the activity spike
+as an anticipation of the reward *earlier and earlier*. The
+result is that the brain gets the activity spike as soon as
+it sees the cue, anticipates the reward, and is thus
+motivated to do the routine. The craving is what makes
+habits easy. 
+
+
 ## Personal 
+
+Finally my personal info. I feel pretty good today. I didn't
+get a lot done this morning but I'm steady cooking now that
+I'm working in a Starbucks on campus. I've been
+peoplewatching as people slowly move in for the fall
+semester. It's fun to see all the different kinds of people
+walking around and to see the connection between kids and
+parents. The kids definitely look more nervous on average
+than the parents. And I get it, the parents know what to
+expect, but for the kids, this is the transition to the deep
+end. They'll be fine.
+
+On the lady front, here's today's update:
+
+**Miranda:** 
+Honestly I'm getting a little bored. I think it might just
+be a texting issue, or perhaps the infatuation wearing off.
+That's okay though, she's really busy this week som maybe
+that has something to do with it.
+
+**Abby:** 
+No update!
+
+**Katarina:** 
+Also no update, but I'm excited for our date tonight. We'll
+see how it goes.
+
+I made some updates to my hinge profile to make things sound
+more serious and better indicate what I want / who I am.
+Maybe this'll stand out more. Honestly, I tried to write the
+profile like one I'd be looking for. 
+

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-# A random thesis idea I had
-
-This is kind of connected to the high assurance digital twin
-idea, but I am currently in the middle of reading and needed
-to get this out of my head.
-
-Here's the situation:
-
-Manyu's work made a lot of progress to apply contract based
-formal methods to nuclear power. To do this, an assumption
-of a certain components output is fed into the input of the
-next component. Math is done, and then the output of that
-component becomes a guarantee, which is then the assumption
-for the next component in line after that.
-
-But here's a question: how do you know that your assumptions
-and guarantee's are valid on a real system, in real time?
-These contracts are based on having a model of the system
-with which you can evaluate the assumptions/guarantee pairs.
-But, real systems never will line up perfectly with a model,
-and over time or different conditions, will absolutely have
-different physical behaviors. Knowing if the contracts still
-hold for the real system is a significant problem.
-
-Here's where some online modeling in simulation can come in.
-Perhaps, we can use a digital twin to estimate what the
-critical model parameters for the contract methods are in
-the real system. This is probably most easily accomplished
-with either a physics informed neural network (PINN) or some
-sort of particle filter bayesian nonsense. Once those
-parameters are identified, we can reevaluate the contracts
-to know a) if our system is safe, b) what our new
-assumptions and safe operating range are, and c) make
-strategic decisions about the plant control if necessary. 
-
-This relates to the [autonomous framework paper](/Zettelkasten/Literature%20Notes/albertiAutomationLevelsNuclear2023.md) 
-that talks about getting to higher levels of automation.
-Level 3 is exactly this, the automated reactor operation
-system being able to detect and diagnose what an error is. 

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-# Therapy Log for CW31 and CW32
-
-- So my crush is not gay (yay!), she has a boyfriend
-(despair!)