Praising effort and improvement is pretty standard pedagogy. You reinforce the behaviours you endorse. (As a teacher) (...and a parent)

So, where is the link to the DIY instructions for the creation of powdered Vodka & Redbull?

This is sad.

Belize is the enemy. Send in the clowns.

I just, with this article, realise that my understanding of computer science may not be keeping up with reality. I am now old. Why would someone want to calculate zillions of floating point results on their PC? How can a GPU card have no graphical interface? And when did we start using Teraflops in desktops!??!?!

This is such a bummer.

thereby making the obvious choice N=NP..

Similarly, I bike to work. It takes me about 12 minutes on my super-efficient bike (BMC, 8.1kgs total. Once a gear-head, always a gear-head). A can of redbull has 152 calories and given that I'm an average rider, I burn off pretty much every one of those calories on the way to work, thereby justifying a second caffeine hit. Sweet, eh?

Wasn't there already a film about this?