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Today was my Public Economics exam, which is probably my strongest subject in this degree and I think I went pretty well. Of course, Public Economics is probably my strong subject in this area because I am fascinated by how unrealistic mainstream economic models are, and what goes wrong when they are applied without due consideration. Issues such as imperfect competition, asymmetric information, externalities, and rent-seeking are the norm, not the exception. Coming up soon is exams in macroeconomics and microeconomics which I suspect will be a lot more difficult for me, especially with the minimal time I have had available to do these courses. The microeconomics subject is particularly heavy on the analytic side which will require a lot of preparation over the next few days - which means skipping a couple of gaming sessions.
In the meantime I have completed the first draft of a paper for Open Philosophy on the problems of reproducibility in computational simulations (it's a special issue on the latter subject), along with the proposal to the Australian Research Data Commons to help establish a workshop-forum and data repository of HPC educational material and delivery techniques. Also worth mentioning that after five years on the waiting list I finished the last component to become a certified Software Carpentry trainer. Finally, have also completed a piece of formal assessment for my higher education degree by writing up the rationale for the International HPC Certification Forum. This is an interesting report, whereby the components are put together piecemeal, reviewed, and then recompiled into the final submission.
My daily 'blog of the federal election campaign continues, although it has slipped to every second day or so as the train-wreck continues in slow-motion. Also, received a midnight 'phone call from a locum at Rick's care facility to say that he had blood in his urine, which is usually not a good sign. There was no associated fever so he was kept under observation. I dropped by the following day to check on him, but and I haven't heard anything else since so one assumes all is well. Any worries I may have need to be put in the "cannot do anything about it" category, especially with the presence of various worries that I can act on.
In the meantime I have completed the first draft of a paper for Open Philosophy on the problems of reproducibility in computational simulations (it's a special issue on the latter subject), along with the proposal to the Australian Research Data Commons to help establish a workshop-forum and data repository of HPC educational material and delivery techniques. Also worth mentioning that after five years on the waiting list I finished the last component to become a certified Software Carpentry trainer. Finally, have also completed a piece of formal assessment for my higher education degree by writing up the rationale for the International HPC Certification Forum. This is an interesting report, whereby the components are put together piecemeal, reviewed, and then recompiled into the final submission.
My daily 'blog of the federal election campaign continues, although it has slipped to every second day or so as the train-wreck continues in slow-motion. Also, received a midnight 'phone call from a locum at Rick's care facility to say that he had blood in his urine, which is usually not a good sign. There was no associated fever so he was kept under observation. I dropped by the following day to check on him, but and I haven't heard anything else since so one assumes all is well. Any worries I may have need to be put in the "cannot do anything about it" category, especially with the presence of various worries that I can act on.
