I asked for a list of student matric numbers on course 1234 from our central "We Do It Proper" IT a while back and was emailed a spreadsheet full of matric numbers along with home addresses… (View Post)

I was having a chat this week with a relatively senior public sector worker. We were both frazzled but working through it. But both expressed deep sadness that we just *knew* how good we could make t… (View Post)

Has the LK99 stuff been getting much attention? https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2308/2308.01516.pdf "The article discusses the successful growth and levitation of LK-99, a modified lead apati… (View Post)

As I remember - yes. One of the offsets to the cost was reducing the overhead of all the byzantine processes of the current system(s). (View Post)

In other news - I've given in an turned the heating on. 10C outside and despite a cardigan I was feeling cold. Last straw was the cat climbing into a thermally-lined box that I got from the butc… (View Post)