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   What's this? An interesting lecture?...

Good lord, I didn't think it was going to happen, but this morning's lectures absolutely rocked, which was good as James had tagged along and had a blast. This guy was really cool, talking about modelling the oceans and the atmosphere and generally having a model earth. Very sweet, and hugely complicated.

I think that geekcamp would have been more fun if there'd been more of this: good lectures about how we build real models that actually work, rather than hours of derivations of different methodologies with no real applied work other than "run this matlab script... now run this other one. It goes faster." Boring...

This afternoon is more practical work put on by the APAC guys on optimising serial programs. I'm looking forward to it, though James won't be here. *pouts* No more hand-holding in class... But this stuff looks to be useful, which is good, as there hasn't quite been enough applied study here. I've had a blast, and this last lecture has left me with warm feelings towards the whole experience, but I'm glad I'll be headed home in a few more days.

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