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tcpipIsocracy AGM was held today; a smaller-than-usual gathering, although we did have person dialing-in as well. Discussed Nicolò Bellanca's "Isocracy: The Institutions of Equality", and noted that in most cases the programme developed by the Isocracy Network had a greater level of exactness, detail, and coherence. But that is to be expected, we've been working on it for quite a while. There was widespread discussion about various suggestions in the book, especially matters of federalism, economies of scale, and so forth. The discussion continued on (and went on a wider range of subjects) when the official meeting ended and we continued at the local coffee shop. Next items on the agenda include submitting our paperwork to Consumer Affairs and writing a submission on homelessness to the Victorian parliamentary inquiry.
Finished the English to Russian tree on Duolingo earlier tonight. Still not feeling very confident of my abilities in said language at all and a lot more revision is required. I will also do the Russian to English tree as well, which seems to help reinforce some core concepts, and I suspect it is more developed that the other way around. In any case, it is my only "golden owl" of the year, bringing my total to 13. I remain amazed at users like ClaudioAg1! who have completed 43 trees. Worse still (for me) I have discovered that Duolingo now also has Latin. I'll finally make use of those old textbooks on the subject that I've barely looked at over the last 25 years or so, despite their old-world charm, and have a close look at Damian Conway's famous Lingua::Romana::Perligata Perl module, written due to Latin's strong lexical structure, although it seems to me that consistent positional languages have certain ease-of-learning and consistency advantages over the use of inflexions (English adjective order is quite a wonderful example).
Speaking of coursework, my Linux and HPC workshops took up most of the work time for the latter half of last week, with the Introduction to Linux and HPC class being full to the rafters, followed by Advanced Linux and Shell Scripting on the second day. Both of those had some excellent questions from some pretty switched on researchers. The third course, Regular Expressions using Linux had to be cancelled due to attendance numbers, which was a real shame given the amount of effort that's been put into it. The researchers who did attend pleaded for me to run the course again next year, which I certainly will. It is too important a subject, especially for various bioinformatics subjects.
Finished the English to Russian tree on Duolingo earlier tonight. Still not feeling very confident of my abilities in said language at all and a lot more revision is required. I will also do the Russian to English tree as well, which seems to help reinforce some core concepts, and I suspect it is more developed that the other way around. In any case, it is my only "golden owl" of the year, bringing my total to 13. I remain amazed at users like ClaudioAg1! who have completed 43 trees. Worse still (for me) I have discovered that Duolingo now also has Latin. I'll finally make use of those old textbooks on the subject that I've barely looked at over the last 25 years or so, despite their old-world charm, and have a close look at Damian Conway's famous Lingua::Romana::Perligata Perl module, written due to Latin's strong lexical structure, although it seems to me that consistent positional languages have certain ease-of-learning and consistency advantages over the use of inflexions (English adjective order is quite a wonderful example).
Speaking of coursework, my Linux and HPC workshops took up most of the work time for the latter half of last week, with the Introduction to Linux and HPC class being full to the rafters, followed by Advanced Linux and Shell Scripting on the second day. Both of those had some excellent questions from some pretty switched on researchers. The third course, Regular Expressions using Linux had to be cancelled due to attendance numbers, which was a real shame given the amount of effort that's been put into it. The researchers who did attend pleaded for me to run the course again next year, which I certainly will. It is too important a subject, especially for various bioinformatics subjects.
