learner profiles not matching

[psteinb]

During the HPC Carpentry co-working hour on Nov 26, 2020, I discovered that we have unsynced learner profiles. There are learner profiles in this repo here

* A statistics student wants to cross-validate a model. This involves running the model 1000
  times -- but each run takes an hour. Running the model on a laptop will take over a month!

* A genomics researcher has been using small datasets of sequence data, but soon will be receiving
  a new type of sequencing data that is 10 times as large. It's already challenging to open the
  datasets on a computer -- analyzing these larger datasets will probably crash it.

* An engineer is using a fluid dynamics package that has an option to run in parallel. So far, this option was not utilized on a desktop. In going from 2D to 3D simulations, the simulation time has more than tripled. It might be useful to take advantage of that option or feature.

and here:

> ## Environmental Biology
> 
> Y. is an environmental biologist that uses DNA signatures obtained from
> soils to study species diversity in the environment. 
> She need to compare DNA sequences to large databases. So far, she has
> been able to use web-based tools for her limited datasets.
> 
> Recently, Y has started working with much larger datasets, and
> discovered that the online tool he uses has a limit of 50 entries on the
> online server. 
> He has heard it should be possible to run the same tool through the
> command line, and managed to install it on his local Laptop. 
> Now, however, it takes several days before each of the analyses are
> finished.
> 
> The workshop will teach Y to move his data to and from the university's
> computer cluster, and submit jobs using pre-installed software on the
> cluster. 
> Afterwards, Y will be able to analyze her own data and pre-installed
> command-line based versions of the tool
> to spread the analysis over several dozen cores so it finishes in a few
> hours.
> ## Physics (or many other domains!)
> 
> A new PhD student is given a task to select parameters for their
> simulation.  They need to run a set of calculations on several thousand 
> combinations of parameters.  One calculation takes several minutes. 
> They set up the problem on their laptop but quickly realise 
> that it would take more than one month to complete the task. 
> They are told to use local HPC but they are not sure how this would help
> them.

[psteinb]

Given @ocaisa issue where to put the learner profile, I'd follow the suggestion made in that comment, to put the learner profiles into the extras folder.

[tkphd]

Closed by #236.