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\line{Dwelleth in me, and I in him.}
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\p{\strong{Edit (2025-11-02):} I have now recorded myself singing this piece, although I cheated with the soprano part and recorded it two tones lower, then digitally transposed it up.}
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\p{I didn't bother with Evensong today, because of the missing benediction.}
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\title{Feast of All Saints 2025}
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\date{2025-11-02}
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\author{liamoc}
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\quote{
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Gaudeamus omnes in Dómino, diem festum celebrántes sub honóre Sanctórum ómnium: de quorum solemnitáte gaudent Angeli, et colláudant Fílium Dei.
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\p{Because this was the dedication feast for [All Saints Ainslie](https://allsaintsainslie.org.au), we sang Darke's [Communion Service in F Major](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_YotRZXipY&list=OLAK5uy_m_gU2ydx02FIjTPG8WO8odyEqYLZY9jHc) as well as [I Sat Down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pc41lxwd7k) by John Bairstow, with text taken from the Song of Solomon:}
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\quote{
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\poem{
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\line{I sat down under his shadow with great delight,}
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\line{and his fruit was sweet to my taste.}
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\line{He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was Love.}
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\line{I sat down under his shadow.}
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\p{We also had a small celebration of our choir and sanctuary party at Corroboree park in Ainslie.}
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\figcaption{Fr. Alipate works for over an hour at the barbeque.}
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\p{We were blessed with a gorgeous sunset to conclude the evening.}
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\title{19th Sunday after Pentecost 2025}
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\date{2025-10-19}
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\quote{
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Ego clamávi quóniam exaudísti me, Deus: inclína aurem tuam, et exáudi verba mea: custódi me, Dómine, ut pupíllam óculi: sub umbra alárum tuárum prótege me.
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\p{I had just flown back from Singapore, so I wasn't able to be present for [All Saints Ainslie](https://allsaintsainslie.org.au) singing Tallis' \em{Hear the voice and prayer} but I did record myself singing all parts to it a week earlier before I flew out: }
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\quote{
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\line{Hear the voice and prayer of thy servants,}
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\line{that they make before thee this day:}
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\line{That thine eyes may be open towards this house night and day,}
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\line{Ever towards this place, ever towards this place}
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\line{Of which thou hast said "My name shall be there".}
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\line{And when thou hear'st, have mercy on them.}
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\p{I had just flown into Sydney and coming down with a cold from a nightmare flight, but I was still able to stop by [Christ Church St. Laurence](https://ccsl.org.au/) for their Solemn High Mass. It was a lovely high church service. I wish we were as liturgically refined in Canberra. The Choir performed most of G.P. da Palestrina's [Missa Aeterna Christi Munera](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=825kfMgCZAk), which is based on the eponymous Gregorian Chant melody, and Vaughan William's [O Taste and See](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heiiATCrwVQ).}
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\quote{
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Lætétur cor quæréntium Dóminum: quaérite Dóminum, et confirmámini: quaérite fáciem eius semper.
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\p{While I was still recovering from a cold, I sang with our choir at [All Saints Ainslie](https://allsaintsainslie.org.au) for Anerio's gorgeous piece, [Christus Factus Est](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fArGQY_wvmA) (although the initial gorgeous passage is very reminiscent of [another piece](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ9dXLmRlpo)).}
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\td{Christus factus est pro nobis obédiens}
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\td{Christ became obedient for us,}
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\td{usque ad mortem:}
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\td{Even unto death:}
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\td{Mortem autem crucis.}
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\td{Death on the cross.}
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\td{Propter quod et Deus exaltavit illum}
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\td{Wherefore God has exalted him,}
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\td{Et dedit illi nomen quod est super omne nomen.}
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\td{And given him a name above all other names.}
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\p{The Anerio was unaccompanied, and we had only piano accompaniment for the other music. Still, we sounded very nice I think.}
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\title{ICFP/SPLASH 2025 is over}
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\figcaption{I was in character as Br. Alonzo of Curry for the ICFP Contest Report.}
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\p{From the 10th to the 19th of October I was travelling, specifically to Singapore to present the results of the [[icfpc25]].
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As seems to almost always happen, the Japanese team Unagi (and another Japanese team, MOYOU) won the contest, using their preferred programming language Rust. Also as in most years, most solutions used SAT encodings, simulated annealing, or other such methods. Some teams did use automata learning (as our reference solution did), but this was uncommon. The [writeups page](https://icfpcontest2025.github.io/writeups.html) has many more details, including an in-character personal reflection by Adso.
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\p{ The conference was indeed massive, and it was good to catch up with many folks that I know (such as [[gckeller]], [[crizkallah]], [[zilinc]] and [[msteuwer]]), but I must say that I found few talks or papers that I actually found noteworthy or compelling. Perhaps the most interesting was the few papers and presentations I saw given by [[antonlorenzen]]. I'm sure this is more a problem with me than with the authors, all of which I'm sure have produced very good work, except of course for the [LMPL Workshop](https://conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-splash-2025/lmpl-2025) which promotes use of [the dreaded LLMs](loc-001H) in PL research. I studiously avoided attending that, and was pleased to find some likeminded colleagues. }
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\figcaption{Some night time wanderings of Singapore.}
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\p{While I love to eat the food in Singapore, I always find the weather almost unbearable. I try to do what locals do, and transit via underground and indoor connections between buildings, but I inevitably end up having to walk for 10–20 minutes outside and end up feeling horribly \em{wet} from a mixture of humidity and sweat. Nonetheless, I thank very much [[ilyasergey]] and the others who organised the event, and arranged for me to travel there and present.}
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\title{Weeknotes 2025-W44}
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\p{This is my first week back to weeknoting in about a month, seeing as I was first travelling to Singapore for [ICFP](icfp25) and then subsequently took two weeks off to spend some time with my partner, who was visiting from Korea.}
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