The daughter’s study desk is about to go to the tip. I have mixed feelings about this, it did its job, my girl went into her room at a preteen and came out as a young woman with all the right degrees. But we didn’t sit around the goggle box each evening and part of regrets that.

The difference between theory and practice is that in theory there is no difference but in practice there is.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa.... Of all the things Unis do. Exams are the most profitable. Maintaining rigour is vital to their survival.

Uni exam cheating: Pen and paper 'has served us well for many, many centuries'

Some university departments are reverting because of the difficulty securing digital exams.

Resource consent application to build a 3bdrm house on a clear site in a 50 year old subdivision. 77 pages long. It’s ridiculous.

Having cooked up a theory to explain some weird data. Now testing the theory makes me have doubts about both the data and the test.

My spark modem started making weird noises. Long story short it was the power supply causing the modem to make the noise. Very odd

www.nature.com/articles/d42... Japans urbanisation has left the with a huge headache. Reversing that process will be extremely challenging.

Creating a future for rice cultivation

High tech and age-old agricultural traditions are being used to reverse the decline in one of Japan’s top rice-growing regions.

How big does an intron need to be to be an intron?

I'm pretty sure that rule 110 can generate a logical OR and AND. Its suppose to be Turing complete so it shouldn't be surprising. Buggered if I know how though. #complexity

Digging up some old data for re-analysis of the effect of recombination on genome organization in a truncating ECA. Took me ages to find the data and I had to re-write the analytical code. Building up to do mutational scans to measure neutrality. #complexity