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A few weeks ago the Premier of New South Wales resigned when it was discovered that they were under investigation by the Independent Commission Against Corruption. The conservative media and the Prime Minister took the opportunity to attack the ICAC, describing it as "a real problem". Of course, the Prime Minister has been resisting for years the establishment of a Federal ICAC. Now that the inquiry has begun the avalanche of attacks on the ICAC have come to a sudden end, and for good reason. Take the opportunity to listen to the 'phone taps that the ICAC conducted whilst investigating the premier. Decide for yourself whether the words reflect the sort of comments that you would expect good stewards and public-minded representatives to engage in. Whilst we may cynically claim that "all politicians are the same", it is demonstrably not the case. But there will certainly be more corruption and nepotism if you don't have an ICAC and public disclosure.
As per my last two entries, I have spent a good portion of my past workweek delving deeper into cryo-electron microscopy. Part of it has been working through the 29-step simplified tutorial for RELION with a view of converting it to a series for dependent jobs for the Slurm Workload Manager, along with the more obvious task of updating a version of the tutorial due to local difference in version and configuration options. In addition to these, I gave a presentation to Cryo-EM researchers and HPC sysadmins at the University of New South Wales which included discussions on what we do here, and what their situation is. Whilst I'm still putting the quasi-transcript notes together (it was quite long, which the slides do not illustrate as there was plenty of examples), the common matters of extremely large datasets (as in the multiple petabytes per week range), hefty processing requires, and very fast and close network connectivity for interactive tasks was discussed. On a related note, work also hosted a presentation by Associate Professor Douglas Boyle on the GRHANITE Health Informatics Unit, which does some great GP-aggregated, but de-identified, individual epidemiology.
As a gregarious person, I have had very little human contact in the past week. For most of the week, the only in-person communication I engaged in was a few brief comments to the checkout assistant at the local Aldi. Yet, despite this, I have been happy enough and productive enough in my own company; well my company and that of Sabre cat, who is a rather good conversationalist in her own right, especially when it comes to a second breakfast or second dinner. And there has been some online gaming as well over video conferencing (Mage The Awakening, Band of Blades). Anyway, the weekend beckoned and I've spent some time in the company of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lei_loo, which whilst it was excellent enough in its own right, also included the added bonus of watching the New Zealand movie "Boy" a drama which was both funny and sad at the same time. Anyway, I'll be starting up my rolling lunch-dinner-drinks housewarming(s) now that such things are allowed, but cautious we go. Double-vaxxed people through my door, thank you very much.
As per my last two entries, I have spent a good portion of my past workweek delving deeper into cryo-electron microscopy. Part of it has been working through the 29-step simplified tutorial for RELION with a view of converting it to a series for dependent jobs for the Slurm Workload Manager, along with the more obvious task of updating a version of the tutorial due to local difference in version and configuration options. In addition to these, I gave a presentation to Cryo-EM researchers and HPC sysadmins at the University of New South Wales which included discussions on what we do here, and what their situation is. Whilst I'm still putting the quasi-transcript notes together (it was quite long, which the slides do not illustrate as there was plenty of examples), the common matters of extremely large datasets (as in the multiple petabytes per week range), hefty processing requires, and very fast and close network connectivity for interactive tasks was discussed. On a related note, work also hosted a presentation by Associate Professor Douglas Boyle on the GRHANITE Health Informatics Unit, which does some great GP-aggregated, but de-identified, individual epidemiology.
As a gregarious person, I have had very little human contact in the past week. For most of the week, the only in-person communication I engaged in was a few brief comments to the checkout assistant at the local Aldi. Yet, despite this, I have been happy enough and productive enough in my own company; well my company and that of Sabre cat, who is a rather good conversationalist in her own right, especially when it comes to a second breakfast or second dinner. And there has been some online gaming as well over video conferencing (Mage The Awakening, Band of Blades). Anyway, the weekend beckoned and I've spent some time in the company of
lei_loo, which whilst it was excellent enough in its own right, also included the added bonus of watching the New Zealand movie "Boy" a drama which was both funny and sad at the same time. Anyway, I'll be starting up my rolling lunch-dinner-drinks housewarming(s) now that such things are allowed, but cautious we go. Double-vaxxed people through my door, thank you very much.
