Last night I had dinner (pho) with Janice and Lydia. It felt really good to share perspectives on unconventional career and life choices. Afterwards, I stopped by RC to pick up my laptop; I joined a small group who were enjoying a funny conversation about technical and work situations. I could not stop laughing after someone was described as a “human generator of technical debt.”

Today, I connected to two of the servers of RC’s community cluster via SSH. Robert showed me how to view GPU usage on them. He is running Jupyter notebooks on these servers. I told him about JupyterHub and BinderHub, just in case. We also exchanged a few words in German, which was fun. Over lunch, I met two interesting characters (spoke Italian and a couple words of Serbian).

Again, I only read a few pages of “Statistical Rethinking” (yes, I’m the slowest reader in the world). I participated in a very rich PGP/GPG session led by Ernest. I learnt that I could connect to a remote server using my authentication GPG subkey instead of my SSH key! Also, I’m happy to expand my tiny web of trust!

Tonight, we had presentations as well as an insipiring, challenging, reassuring talk by Sonali (RC faculty) about our educational journey. Danielle gave a colourful demo, which prompted thoughts about the line between functionality (here, implemented in Rust) and rendering (here, implemented in JS). I secured a pair programming session with Danielle tomorrow, yay!