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Guest Lectures, Interstate Visitors
Mar. 19th, 2025 10:18 pmEvery year I do a series of invited lectures and assessment for the UniMelb master's-level course "Cluster and Cloud Computing", which is a rather massive course with approximately four hundred students primarily from computer science and data science. Anyway, this has started for 2025 and will continue for the next few weeks. In between all this I have two advanced researcher workshops next week on "Parallel Processing" (shell commands, job arrays, OpenMP and OpenMPI programming), and "Mathematical Programming" (R, Octave/MATLAB, Julia, Maxima, Stata, etc). Further, I recently gave a presentation to the Spartan Champions group on scheduler-level parallelisation. In most cases this is the easiest way to do a type of parallel data computation and, as such, makes a low-hanging opportunity for making the best use of computing resources. Finally, on a slightly related matter, I have put up a script (called "lament") designed for local viewing of Facebook encrypted messages, converting the JSON to HTML conversion of Facebook Messenger files using the Pandas and JSON extensions for Python.
I have had the pleasure of catching up with interstate visitors this week! Firstly, I had the delight to catch up with Justine, Simon, Erica, and Susie C., for brunch with "Le Cafe Flo, a rather good French cafe in Thornbury. It was conveniently located to "The Witches Wardrobe Flea Market", which had a good variety of goth, emo, etc. wares. It was a bit of a Perth migrants day for our part, enhanced with visitor Susie C., who is making a lot of noises about making the trip across the Nullabor on a more permanent basis. Another visitor this week is my dear friend (and co-owner of property) from Darwin, Lara D. Lara is blessing me with two weeks with her company, and we have quite the range of artistic, musical, and culinary delights lined up, although it will be hard for the latter to beat the dinner provided by Carol D., Lara's mother, last night.
I have had the pleasure of catching up with interstate visitors this week! Firstly, I had the delight to catch up with Justine, Simon, Erica, and Susie C., for brunch with "Le Cafe Flo, a rather good French cafe in Thornbury. It was conveniently located to "The Witches Wardrobe Flea Market", which had a good variety of goth, emo, etc. wares. It was a bit of a Perth migrants day for our part, enhanced with visitor Susie C., who is making a lot of noises about making the trip across the Nullabor on a more permanent basis. Another visitor this week is my dear friend (and co-owner of property) from Darwin, Lara D. Lara is blessing me with two weeks with her company, and we have quite the range of artistic, musical, and culinary delights lined up, although it will be hard for the latter to beat the dinner provided by Carol D., Lara's mother, last night.
