Could I ask you about this again? I'd like to make a more serious push for us to trial gradecope. When I've used it in the past I manually assigned pages to question parts. I think there is another way where different parts of the answer booklet are assigned to different questions. Which do you use?

I listened with a non-physics friend and liked your bit a lot. Do you have a favourite bit of popular writing about QM? I like to say that the mathematical objects that appear in the theory are not as obviously related to the things we observe and that’s ok: classical physics maybe spoils us a bit…

I thought Schrödinger was pointing to the difficulty of drawing a distinction between classical and quantum systems based on whether they are macroscopic or microscopic. For that purpose I thought it did the job (although we have got used to the subtleties today)

Brilliant

I sincerely believe the burden of proof is on anyone who imagines that there’s no effect of everyone doing something for hours per day that they didn’t do 15 years ago

What *are* candy plotens?

If we abandon the idea that “woman” has to have a uniform meaning across all of society (unlike, for example, “child”) then there’s no difference between excluding trans women and excluding heavyweights from a flyweight boxing match imo. But many people reject my premise, I understand

It's so spot on: "Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician. The devil says: I will give you this powerful machine, it will answer any question you like. All you need to do is give me your soul: give up geometry and you will have this marvelous machine"

I guess I always knew this because of the perilous proximity to "Jonty", which has such awful cricket captain vibes

I mean if something is produced by a computer, read by a computer and assessed by a computer, maybe we should shake-up more than peer review?