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tcpipOn Monday and Tuesday this week I delivered workshops on introductory and advanced Linux, HPC, and shell scripting. It was preceded by an exciting moment on Sunday as my laptop power cable caught on fire. There was a short panic for a while, but I managed to source a replacement at a local OfficeWorks (awful website, good staff). Yesterday was part one of another course, but this time as a recipient, an NVIDIA CUDA programming "boot camp". I have done this before, a few years ago, and their delivery hasn't really improved (honestly people, andragogy is a formal and learned skill), but there are some significant improvements in content. I have also announced another workshop in a week's time for those who want to transition from Spartan to Gadi, Australia's most powerful supercomputer.
Yesterday I completed the two pre-recorded lectures for eResearchAustralasia, virtual conferences being a thing these days. The conference organisers however have required the videos be uploaded to DropBox which is the wrong tool for the job; so far I'm getting consistent timeout errors at around 15% for the long paper and 25% for the short paper. At times the level of basic information technology illiteracy in academia and research (let alone business) leaves me flabbergasted - and then there's the recent story of how 50,000 people missed out on self-isolation in the UK as records were being kept on an Excel spreadsheet.
With a particular interest in organisational, educational, and positive psychology, I have enrolled in a GradDipPsych for next year. Whilst I have had a long interest in the topic, I have no formal training. As such, I've started an introductory MOOC on the subject from the University of Toronto. It's all pretty basic stuff, but quite interesting and well presented, and as is my want on such things, I'm flying through it at a rate of a week's worth of material every two days, and rather suspect I will finish it well before the four others I am currently doing. As a person who is very interested in the delivery of content via online means (four of my five degrees have been acquired in such a manner), I am very interested in hearing stories from others on what works for them, what doesn't, and why, especially given the non-completion rates.
Yesterday I completed the two pre-recorded lectures for eResearchAustralasia, virtual conferences being a thing these days. The conference organisers however have required the videos be uploaded to DropBox which is the wrong tool for the job; so far I'm getting consistent timeout errors at around 15% for the long paper and 25% for the short paper. At times the level of basic information technology illiteracy in academia and research (let alone business) leaves me flabbergasted - and then there's the recent story of how 50,000 people missed out on self-isolation in the UK as records were being kept on an Excel spreadsheet.
With a particular interest in organisational, educational, and positive psychology, I have enrolled in a GradDipPsych for next year. Whilst I have had a long interest in the topic, I have no formal training. As such, I've started an introductory MOOC on the subject from the University of Toronto. It's all pretty basic stuff, but quite interesting and well presented, and as is my want on such things, I'm flying through it at a rate of a week's worth of material every two days, and rather suspect I will finish it well before the four others I am currently doing. As a person who is very interested in the delivery of content via online means (four of my five degrees have been acquired in such a manner), I am very interested in hearing stories from others on what works for them, what doesn't, and why, especially given the non-completion rates.
