Everything That Rises Must Converge
Aug. 26th, 2019 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcpipLast journal post I expressed a rather full agenda for the following few days. I am pleased that most of the items on that list have come together quite nicely, albeit with a couple of inevitable hiccups. The most notable was the Isocracy meeting on Saturday night to discuss truth in political advertising and the 2019 election. In this case, the guest speaker Oliver Yates, an independent liberal candidate for Kooyong, simply forgot to turn up. I received a very embarrassed call the following afternoon, and we have decided to reconvene in the future. At least those who attended had a delicious dinner and fine conversation.
Apart from that most things have gone without a hitch. There was a fair turnout to my address to the Unitarian Church on behalf of the Victorian Secular Lobby, on Religious Freedom and Religious Charities, which has sparked some interest on the meaning of the title of section 116 of the Australian Constitution (I can be a simple man and I believe that "no law" means "no law"). I've also completed the necessary revision of my second and final assignment for HEDU501, Critical Reflection on Higher Education and have submitted that, along with my presentation this week for the HPC-AI advisory council conference in Perth (which is an elaboration of the presentation I gave at ARDC in Sydney last month). Following a similar line of topics, the two days of workshops for Parallel Processing with OpenMPI and MPI and GPU Programming with OpenACC and CUDA both went very well. The smaller workshop room works well with the more intensive class, and my addition of new content helped as well.
It's been a long day already as my flight to Perth was changed and I've spent a couple of hours at Adelaide airport, which at least let me get some work done. Apart from the HPC-AI conference, I have a dinner planned in East Perth (hearty Italian comfort food) which, after a flurry of contacts last night, suddenly found itself being quite a sizeable event. I might end up with around 20 people in attendance. Plus there will be a dinner with Arnold and Cathy around Fremantle tonight. The brief trip to Perth has a full, but rather enjoyable agenda.
Apart from that most things have gone without a hitch. There was a fair turnout to my address to the Unitarian Church on behalf of the Victorian Secular Lobby, on Religious Freedom and Religious Charities, which has sparked some interest on the meaning of the title of section 116 of the Australian Constitution (I can be a simple man and I believe that "no law" means "no law"). I've also completed the necessary revision of my second and final assignment for HEDU501, Critical Reflection on Higher Education and have submitted that, along with my presentation this week for the HPC-AI advisory council conference in Perth (which is an elaboration of the presentation I gave at ARDC in Sydney last month). Following a similar line of topics, the two days of workshops for Parallel Processing with OpenMPI and MPI and GPU Programming with OpenACC and CUDA both went very well. The smaller workshop room works well with the more intensive class, and my addition of new content helped as well.
It's been a long day already as my flight to Perth was changed and I've spent a couple of hours at Adelaide airport, which at least let me get some work done. Apart from the HPC-AI conference, I have a dinner planned in East Perth (hearty Italian comfort food) which, after a flurry of contacts last night, suddenly found itself being quite a sizeable event. I might end up with around 20 people in attendance. Plus there will be a dinner with Arnold and Cathy around Fremantle tonight. The brief trip to Perth has a full, but rather enjoyable agenda.
