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tcpipI find myself quite concerned with public health policy and behaviour of the general public. As is my wont, with sober senses, I quietly compose my thoughts on matters, ensuring that I have brought together grounded evidence to generate considered convictions, this time comparing the public health policies of elimination from last year to this year's approach of vaccinated herd immunity: From Elimination to Herd Immunity?. Unfortunately, the reality is that herd immunity is a difficult number given the R0 of the Delta variant, and an elimination strategy is still the best, even if politically difficult, option. But the virus really doesn't care whether something is "politically difficult". There is a sense in which I personally feel a little surrounded by it all; there are no less than 22 coronavirus exposure times from 9 different sites surrounding me within 1km of where I live, including a block immediately to the rear of my apartment.
Despite this, I find myself engaging in some quasi-normal living, even attending a political webinar hosted by my local MLC, Nina Taylor, and addressed by the state minister of the environment, Lily D'Ambrosio, on the Victorian government's waste and recycling plans. A couple of days later I found myself visiting the St Kilda foreshore with Robbie K., who I count as a friend of some 25 years, although we haven't been in each other's company for the better part of more than 18 months or so. Once upon a time we would find ourselves attending various alternative concerts together (e.g., Jello Biafra, The Strokes, Massive Attack), now we wandered along the beach, reminisced, and grizzled about the effects of the pandemic and the huge quantities of maskless individuals.
I will also admit to some challenges at work in the past week as well. A quantum chemistry application, released as a collection of binaries only, has proven to be less than friendly with the version of OpenMPI that is linked to on our system (the serial version works just fine). A machine-learning image recognition application, designed for a different flavour of Linux and with a Makefile that dies when installing CUDA/GPU versions that don't exist, is also causing problems. Combining the two, I can also say the same for a molecular dynamics application, also designed for a different distribution but also with MPI errors. Still, I guess that having three work problems isn't too bad, but such problems! I am rather looking forward to delivering a class on Friday, which of course had all its places filled an hour after announcement. Apparently, people still want to learn about supercomputers.
Despite this, I find myself engaging in some quasi-normal living, even attending a political webinar hosted by my local MLC, Nina Taylor, and addressed by the state minister of the environment, Lily D'Ambrosio, on the Victorian government's waste and recycling plans. A couple of days later I found myself visiting the St Kilda foreshore with Robbie K., who I count as a friend of some 25 years, although we haven't been in each other's company for the better part of more than 18 months or so. Once upon a time we would find ourselves attending various alternative concerts together (e.g., Jello Biafra, The Strokes, Massive Attack), now we wandered along the beach, reminisced, and grizzled about the effects of the pandemic and the huge quantities of maskless individuals.
I will also admit to some challenges at work in the past week as well. A quantum chemistry application, released as a collection of binaries only, has proven to be less than friendly with the version of OpenMPI that is linked to on our system (the serial version works just fine). A machine-learning image recognition application, designed for a different flavour of Linux and with a Makefile that dies when installing CUDA/GPU versions that don't exist, is also causing problems. Combining the two, I can also say the same for a molecular dynamics application, also designed for a different distribution but also with MPI errors. Still, I guess that having three work problems isn't too bad, but such problems! I am rather looking forward to delivering a class on Friday, which of course had all its places filled an hour after announcement. Apparently, people still want to learn about supercomputers.
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Date: 2021-09-14 03:13 am (UTC)Remember, Gladys is The Premier For Business!
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Date: 2021-09-14 09:12 am (UTC)Job Keeper is perhaps the greatest business welfare rort in Australian history.