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The past four nights have been spent moving furniture out of the two storerooms on the second level to either the attic bedroom, or the ground floor lounge-room and dining room. This included a total of some 16 bookcases, a similar number of 50L tubs, also full of books, a large desk, a filing cabinet, at least a half-dozen desktop systems, a spare bed, and other assorted bits-and-pieces. I'm covered in bruises as a result and feeling a bit sore. It has been, of course, some 10 years since all this furnishing has been shifted. Mac the cat has gone into hiding somewhere. Anyway it's all done just in time for the flooring people to come in tomorrow, rip up the thirty-year old carpet (largely destroyed by past pet rabbits, guinea pigs, and rats), and replace it with a new underlay and some nice laminate boards. I rather suspect that the rest of the house will have to wait until returning from Europe, which is a mere couple of weeks which is, of course, plenty of time to organise hotels and trains, right?
When not shifting several thousand books and associated meubles around the place, I've been at work, primarily engaged in teaching on Monday and Tuesday; the usual classes, Introduction to Linux and HPC and Advanced Linux and Shell Scripting for HPC. I admit I was pretty tired during the courses, but I can run at least these ones whilst almost dead, I am sure. This said, every class I do try to introduce or modify the content slightly, and this one expanded the archiving options to include various tools for viewing archives without uncompressing them. The classes were pretty switched on, and there is one particular project that we'll follow up on, seeing how much parallelisation we can force out of large coastal dataset for Delft3D. Horrible software, but then again a lot of scientific software is written with idiosyncratic approaches, often ignoring well-known conventions in favour of what the development group things is a good idea for their environment. "We found this software useful, and hope you will too". Well, as the Germans say Hoffnung ist keine Strategie.
The next two days I'll be working from home. I have a small mountain of work which is suitable from such a location (including the Delft3D issue) and it means I can be around to let the tradies in and their work on-site. I also have a paper revision for Open Philosophy to submit on reproduibility issues in computer modelling, along with an phenomenology paper to finish for the journal Philosophy Study. Fortunately both are pretty much done, so they're not going to be too time-consuming by any stretch of the imagination. Actually, I probably have several philosophy papers that I probably should get published, mainly from various talks that I've presented over the past ten years or so. I really want to see Mary, the Swampy Philosophical Zombie, Is In Your Chinese Room! Problems With Reductionist Theories of Consciousness, and not only for the title.
When not shifting several thousand books and associated meubles around the place, I've been at work, primarily engaged in teaching on Monday and Tuesday; the usual classes, Introduction to Linux and HPC and Advanced Linux and Shell Scripting for HPC. I admit I was pretty tired during the courses, but I can run at least these ones whilst almost dead, I am sure. This said, every class I do try to introduce or modify the content slightly, and this one expanded the archiving options to include various tools for viewing archives without uncompressing them. The classes were pretty switched on, and there is one particular project that we'll follow up on, seeing how much parallelisation we can force out of large coastal dataset for Delft3D. Horrible software, but then again a lot of scientific software is written with idiosyncratic approaches, often ignoring well-known conventions in favour of what the development group things is a good idea for their environment. "We found this software useful, and hope you will too". Well, as the Germans say Hoffnung ist keine Strategie.
The next two days I'll be working from home. I have a small mountain of work which is suitable from such a location (including the Delft3D issue) and it means I can be around to let the tradies in and their work on-site. I also have a paper revision for Open Philosophy to submit on reproduibility issues in computer modelling, along with an phenomenology paper to finish for the journal Philosophy Study. Fortunately both are pretty much done, so they're not going to be too time-consuming by any stretch of the imagination. Actually, I probably have several philosophy papers that I probably should get published, mainly from various talks that I've presented over the past ten years or so. I really want to see Mary, the Swampy Philosophical Zombie, Is In Your Chinese Room! Problems With Reductionist Theories of Consciousness, and not only for the title.
