Indeed. I got bad reports in maths for quite a while in secondary school ... until they actually set a proper exam and found that I had actually been listening, at least for the time it took to under… (View Post)

There's a lot to be said for modular buildings... A set of standardised modular classrooms that you can drop off the back of a transporter might have been a lot better than the "architect&q… (View Post)

I laughed, but of course it was Bill Giles who prepared the forecast that evening. Michael Fish was just presenting it but got the blame anyway. Nobody knew about Sting Jets then, of course. (View Post)

I believe the Met Office supercomputer that was used to "forecast" the 1987 storm was able to perform 4 megaflops. An iPhone 14 Pro manages 2 teraflops (2,000,000 megaflops). [flop = floati… (View Post)

Yes. There's an awful lot we could learn if sequencing becomes cheap, easy, and portable. It might not change the world exactly but it will make a big difference to our understanding of the natu… (View Post)