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So, putting this afternoon's little outburst aside, today was pretty good really. The work was all in python, which I know well-enough, and the labs mostly consisted of "finish coding this algorithm (6 lines max) and then explore the input parameters to determine what runs well". The teacher was good, the instruction set was good and all in all, Wendy and I had a lot of fun. I typed, she picked up on my typos before runtime, and we discovered that what is meant to be a nicely effective way of parallelising code actually sucked (it was a way of dynamically assigning work units to those processors that hada run out).

And the best bit was that the whole thing was just us trying different ways to calculate the Mandelbrot set of fractals. I haven't got any pretty screenshots with me, but I will put some up later. I like fractals, ever since I was a kid and had a program on my C64 that would calculate them, and it was really cool to find out how this particular one was calculated.

Today was also my cheapest lunch. Hooray for instant ramen. Pity I don't have another one for tomorrow.

No sight-seeing or other news about what's going on in Canberra, sorry about that. I could talk about the Huygens probe, but you've all already read up on it.

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