CUDA was not half the battle it promised to be with Ubuntu unlike Perf. I don’t know what Vince was talking about, rickroll loves Lady Gaga!
On to more serious notes, this week’s heat wave inspired in me a healthy respect for the unix command line. Something most undergrads don’t fully utilize until they’re higher up in their courses, at least for me. Naturally this is long after the useful commands have been forgotten. Google is only helpful when you know how to properly phrase the command query in question. The ability to utilize a system without a GUI should prove to be a good skill to have out in the workforce.
I think you’d be hard pressed to find any other research field that can be done from the comfort of home and still turn out meaningful results. Remote ssh’ing allowed the luxury working on rickroll without braving the triple digit heat to visit the setup in the basement. Two such commands that I learned to love for this portion of install, debug and then demanding the install has permission, were wget & sudo.
What throws up a permission error, sudo magically fixes.
wget allowed for quick downloads directly onto rickroll exactly in the directory I happened to be in. If only they had this option in Windows, I’d never have to look for where a file downloaded again.
Now onto learning Perl & hopefully being able to understand it as well as document it. Who knew being trilingual would apply to programming languages?
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