Hah, me too, though perhaps a mere 27 years in my case. The pure and mechanics stuff was more interesting and seemed easier to me at the time as well as synergizing with the physics a-level, but stat… (View Post)

Pay has never been decided primarily by difficulty or importance of the work, regardless of how much many peoples' instinctive moral sense might desire it to be. My impression for train drivers … (View Post)

Miss AI Perfect might want to work on her pronouns :-) (View Post)

Yes, this was my conclusion, or at least that there comes a point where the maths is no longer 'obvious' and straightforward-seeming, and where that point is varies a lot between people. Fo… (View Post)

Yes, presumably the first time round it pattern matches to all the initial wrong answers it's seen, and second time around it matches to the more complicated this-is-the-actual-answer texts. I a… (View Post)