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bliumchikThe Art of Scientific Communication.
A Sydney Uni Summer School course which we do not do during summer.
A class containing six and a half people as opposed to Mind and Morality's what, forty?
A one unit course involving modelling and statistics and a bit of science journalism.
A heck of a stupid name. They actually changed the name to this. Can you imagine what it used to be? Every time I tell people what I'm doing on Wednesday afternoon they go "...what?" and I go "*sigh* it's this thing, right..." and they look at me funny and change the topic.
So anyway, that's what I've just come back from. Half the class was away today, so we spent most of the two hours working on our group projects and left the new information from the teacher for another time. Now, my group consists of Mel, Shirley and Peter. Today, Shirley was away and Mel had to leave half way through, leaving me and Peter to draw pie charts and yell at each other about theta and exponentials. Peter's a good man to do science with, he jumps up and down and waves whiteboard markers around just like I do. Unfortunately he's also the "half" of six and a half as he is scheduled to flee the country wednesday week. Following this it will just be me, Shirley and Mel, and I'll feel awkward about being loud again.
But American mafia conspiracies aside, things are actually coming together, and we have a sort-of useful model for the spread of disease, and some paint-drawn pictures of Godzilla (courtesy moi) to go with Peter's math. Godzilla is unrelated to the disease spreading thing. Some of the parameters for the disease model are a bit sus - literally, in fact one of them has been labelled "Sus" in our weird-ass shorthand. It makes more sense when you see the pie charts.
Tonight is our family "seder". It's such a typical Russian-Jewish event - we're not actually keeping kashrut le pesach, we're just putting apples and horse-radish on the table and getting grandad drunk.
I think I'll put that icon post together now.
A Sydney Uni Summer School course which we do not do during summer.
A class containing six and a half people as opposed to Mind and Morality's what, forty?
A one unit course involving modelling and statistics and a bit of science journalism.
A heck of a stupid name. They actually changed the name to this. Can you imagine what it used to be? Every time I tell people what I'm doing on Wednesday afternoon they go "...what?" and I go "*sigh* it's this thing, right..." and they look at me funny and change the topic.
So anyway, that's what I've just come back from. Half the class was away today, so we spent most of the two hours working on our group projects and left the new information from the teacher for another time. Now, my group consists of Mel, Shirley and Peter. Today, Shirley was away and Mel had to leave half way through, leaving me and Peter to draw pie charts and yell at each other about theta and exponentials. Peter's a good man to do science with, he jumps up and down and waves whiteboard markers around just like I do. Unfortunately he's also the "half" of six and a half as he is scheduled to flee the country wednesday week. Following this it will just be me, Shirley and Mel, and I'll feel awkward about being loud again.
But American mafia conspiracies aside, things are actually coming together, and we have a sort-of useful model for the spread of disease, and some paint-drawn pictures of Godzilla (courtesy moi) to go with Peter's math. Godzilla is unrelated to the disease spreading thing. Some of the parameters for the disease model are a bit sus - literally, in fact one of them has been labelled "Sus" in our weird-ass shorthand. It makes more sense when you see the pie charts.
Tonight is our family "seder". It's such a typical Russian-Jewish event - we're not actually keeping kashrut le pesach, we're just putting apples and horse-radish on the table and getting grandad drunk.
I think I'll put that icon post together now.
