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caseopaya and I went to a Viking-themed restaurant, Mjolner, which we decided was a birthday dinner for log_reloaded and Jase. Some of the affectations were nice, such as the drinking horns, and we had some fun deconstructing the artwork which had Norman, Viking, and Celtic elements. The food was OK, but all and sundry was priced in accord to what one expect at such as restaurant (i.e., more than it should be). The pre-dinner drinks at Otter's Promise were probably better. Afterwards was entertained back at their place with a show-and-tell with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. All-in-all, however, a very good night out.
The day was also the completion of the final assignment for my MSc in Information Systems, which has just been submitted, hooray. I also received my grade for the previous assignment which, whilst a pass, was the lowest grade I had received in over thirty years. I asked the class leader what I had done wrong, for self-efficacy purposes, seeming that a similar subject I had done a few years previous averaged around 30% higher. It was like pulling teeth, but I finally dragged enough information out that the tutor was basically painting-by-numbers, judging references by quantity, and preferred recommended sources which were inferior to the ones that I found. In a nutshell, the marker was lazy; I hope I never advocate for people to do independent research and then punish them for actually doing so.
Speaking of such things, I've made a start on an automated summative assessment script for HPC training. It will essentially consist of a shell script and a heredoc with some fifty random questions for a fifty-minute exam. My MHed supervisor is quite keen on the idea, agreeing that its nothing short of absurdity to examine people's HPC skills through any other medium other than on an actual HPC; I am having a real uphill battle convincing people in the Internation HPC Educator's Forum of the virtue of this. Hopefully, I will have it ready for the next courses I'll be running in a week's time, a double-sized class. In addition, because I believe in making things easier for others, have written up some notes of installation, licensing, and testing of the Gurobi optimiser.
caseopaya and I went to a Viking-themed restaurant, Mjolner, which we decided was a birthday dinner for log_reloaded and Jase. Some of the affectations were nice, such as the drinking horns, and we had some fun deconstructing the artwork which had Norman, Viking, and Celtic elements. The food was OK, but all and sundry was priced in accord to what one expect at such as restaurant (i.e., more than it should be). The pre-dinner drinks at Otter's Promise were probably better. Afterwards was entertained back at their place with a show-and-tell with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. All-in-all, however, a very good night out.The day was also the completion of the final assignment for my MSc in Information Systems, which has just been submitted, hooray. I also received my grade for the previous assignment which, whilst a pass, was the lowest grade I had received in over thirty years. I asked the class leader what I had done wrong, for self-efficacy purposes, seeming that a similar subject I had done a few years previous averaged around 30% higher. It was like pulling teeth, but I finally dragged enough information out that the tutor was basically painting-by-numbers, judging references by quantity, and preferred recommended sources which were inferior to the ones that I found. In a nutshell, the marker was lazy; I hope I never advocate for people to do independent research and then punish them for actually doing so.
Speaking of such things, I've made a start on an automated summative assessment script for HPC training. It will essentially consist of a shell script and a heredoc with some fifty random questions for a fifty-minute exam. My MHed supervisor is quite keen on the idea, agreeing that its nothing short of absurdity to examine people's HPC skills through any other medium other than on an actual HPC; I am having a real uphill battle convincing people in the Internation HPC Educator's Forum of the virtue of this. Hopefully, I will have it ready for the next courses I'll be running in a week's time, a double-sized class. In addition, because I believe in making things easier for others, have written up some notes of installation, licensing, and testing of the Gurobi optimiser.
