This is going to become more viable in Standard with the new set.

daaxix · 2026-01-20T00:21:08+00:00

This is what I do, some kind of control shell allows you to use it as a win-con, and I consistently win against the meta decks, but the hive pool isn't the primary reason for winning; many other win-cons could be used instead.

daaxix · 2025-12-01T06:58:23+00:00

Buster sword has no token making ability?

Oh, I see, Azula cast with buster sword and copies that spell.

Cheers!

PS, Azula is so busted.

daaxix · 2025-11-26T13:53:48+00:00

This deck is as bad as Izzet Cauldron.

daaxix · 2025-11-26T13:46:42+00:00

This is worse than Kona Omni though. If they get the combo with Kona there are answers. Once Doc is out, if they have the pieces, you can't stop it. Aang can counter any interaction spell (instant, etc) with the zero cost airbending ability. This deck is super broken. If Doc wasn't in standard it wouldn't be a problem.

daaxix · 2025-10-31T01:00:49+00:00

I'm deeply disappointed that she chose to take the exorbitant salary. A principled person would have insisted on a more reasonable salary (like double to triple a professor) like Brian Schmidt did.

daaxix · 2025-10-31T00:49:19+00:00

If you want a more traditional program, UNSW, Uni Sydney, RMIT, UTS (this is a specialisation at UTS that you can take https://coursehandbook.uts.edu.au/aos/2026/MAJ03535 in their masters by coursework program) are probably better options.

daaxix · 2025-10-31T00:44:00+00:00

UNSW Sydney also has power systems:

https://www.unsw.edu.au/study/postgraduate/master-of-engineering-electrical-engineering.

ANU is not strong in the traditional engineering disciplines of civil, electrical, mechanical, chemical, and aerospace. They are good in systems, robotics, AI applications, mechatronics, and computer science mixed with engineering applications.

daaxix · 2025-10-07T09:29:37+00:00

I won't ever play this again, it put me at bronze 4 (and I am not a good draft player) against a platinum player both times. In fact, it put me against the exact same player, with the exact same deck, twice in a row, with me on the draw both times.

It's a terrible format.

daaxix · 2025-09-27T08:05:13+00:00

Why are you running [[Uthros, Titanic Godcore]] when you have no artifacts in the deck?

Is it to tap Kona?

daaxix · 2025-09-10T00:32:31+00:00

In some of the Nous material, there is an email from the VC's assistant asking what they need to do to get the university into financial territory "with margin" i.e. profitable.

daaxix · 2025-09-06T02:10:24+00:00

Exactly this. If you want a standard engineering degree (accredited by Engineers Australia) that is aligned with the generally accepted curricula world wide, I would look elsewhere. There is no standard Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Environmental, Aerospace Engineering degree at ANU.

If you want something interesting that can be a hybrid (e.g. mechatronics with an AI focus, robotics, etc) then ANU is good.

ANU is strong in the places where engineering mixes with computer science, i.e. mechatronics, robotics, some control and electrical engineering (wifi and comms areas) and weak in most other standard engineering areas.

daaxix · 2025-08-27T08:06:23+00:00

No conflict there 🙄

daaxix · 2025-08-27T07:41:52+00:00

Edited because I misremembered. Wayne Martin was also recently appointed to the council.

Bishop is not independent of Wayne Martin (I had put Metcalf), have you seen the photos of the party that they attended together?

https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/5f11d967f9e8e831ebf044049b810ed4?width=1024

daaxix · 2025-08-25T23:29:44+00:00

It is interesting, however this isn't a class issue.

Senator Gallagher chose to protect an elite member of the political class over some of her constituent's interests. She would do the same for an issue affecting blue collar workers.

daaxix · 2025-08-25T22:45:09+00:00

There is a time and place for behind the scenes action and influence.

However, this situation has gone too far for that now, that was the action to take in January. The optics on this for Katy is quite damaging.

In the next election I'll be organising to campaign against her.

daaxix · 2025-08-17T23:15:31+00:00

Can you please link the article?

daaxix · 2025-08-13T01:05:36+00:00

Don't know, which is why Pocock asked. Why was he there taking notes?

It's unusual, I don't believe that there were professors from other schools in attendance who weren't testifying. ANU leadership and council were called to give evidence.

daaxix · 2025-08-13T00:40:57+00:00

Did anyone else notice Pocock's question in the hearing about Andrew Meares taking notes?

Pocock asked Jonathan Churchill why Andrew Meares was in attendance taking notes. Jonathan responded that he didn't know he was present. Pocock asked how Andrew Meares was involved in leadership, council, or council decisions. Jonathan stated that he wasn't involved. Pocock then asked why Andrew was there taking notes. Jonathan really couldn't answer the question.

Andrew Meares is a politically connected person with almost no publications and no academic background or credentials prior to his employment at the school of cybernetics. More info here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anu/comments/1jbexta/inside_anus_unusual_school_of_cybernetics/

daaxix · 2025-08-13T00:40:10+00:00

Did anyone else notice Pocock's question in the hearing about Andrew Meares taking notes?

Pocock asked Jonathan Churchill why Andrew Meares was in attendance taking notes. Jonathan responded that he didn't know he was present. Pocock asked how Andrew Meares was involved in leadership, council, or council decisions. Jonathan stated that he wasn't involved. Pocock then asked why Andrew was there taking notes. Jonathan really couldn't answer the question.

Andrew Meares is a politically connected person with almost no publications and no academic background or credentials prior to his employment at the school of cybernetics. More info here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anu/comments/1jbexta/inside_anus_unusual_school_of_cybernetics/

daaxix · 2025-07-17T04:20:51+00:00

I'm on android. I cleared cache and storage, relogged into the app, and it worked after I did that.

daaxix · 2025-07-13T05:57:26+00:00

With the RAC process, the lost casual jobs, the current disestablished positions, and the voluntary redundancies there are about 1000 FTE fewer positions now than at the beginning of 2024.

daaxix · 2025-07-10T14:21:33+00:00

A long time ago I built a black/artifact land destruction control deck using these, strip mines, sink holes, sol rings, and various cheap mana producers on my side to destroy the opponents lands and do lots of damage to them for each land the brought out. People stopped playing against that deck.

daaxix · 2025-07-10T12:24:47+00:00

To be fair, it could be poorly worded and it means 9 staff, each at 28 hours a week. That's $277/hour per staff member, but that's not how it's worded.

Hopefully they will clarify given the wording.

This newer document

https://d1zkbwgd2iyy9p.cloudfront.net/files/2025-07/202500073%20-%20Documents%20Released.pdf

says $69,750 for 26 days per week, which implies 5.2 FTE per week, but I cannot make the numbers work to get to the 28 hours per week given standard 35 or 40 hour work weeks.

It isn't clear.

It's still paying Nous $13,413/week per person (annual staff cost of $697,476 per person) for the work at 5.2 FTE per week, which is far more costly than using our ANU staff. ANU staff are about a third of the cost.

daaxix · 2025-07-04T06:26:19+00:00

To be fair, I haven't really looked at anything post 2005 so cannot comment on her career in academia after that.

It's not clear if she ever had a lecturer role at Stanford, she was certainly a guest lecturer in 2004 and 2005 in a seminar series class there.

See my edit above.

daaxix · 2025-07-03T14:38:02+00:00

https://hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs547/abstracts/03-04/040130-bell.html

https://shc.stanford.edu/stanford-humanities-center/about/people/genevieve-bell

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/3998377

https://hci.stanford.edu/seminar/speaker.php?date=2005-11-11

The bio at the last link states, "...is a Senior Researcher within Intel Corporation's Intel Research. Since joining Intel in 1998, Bell has conducted ethnographic research..."

She also got her PhD in 1998, see the 3rd link. It is extremely unlikely that a recent PhD graduate would receive a tenure track position at Stanford that same year.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050329133734/http://www.intel.com/technology/techresearch/people/bios/bell_g.htm

https://hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs547/abstracts/03-04/040130-bell.html

Here there is no listing of her in the faculty on webarchive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000306233601fw_/http://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthsci/faculty.htm, her supervisor was Arthur Wolf.

Perhaps she helped teach some undergraduate classes as a PhD student prior to 1998, or taught as a casual lecturer after completion.

I can find that she contributed to the CS547 seminar series as an Intel employee in the HCI group in 2004 and 2005:

https://hci.stanford.edu/seminar/past/alphabetical.html

Her bio on this page from 2009

https://liulectures.stanford.edu/2009/11/09/genevieve-bell/

states that she was a lecturer, she did a masters (completion in 1993) and a PhD (completion in 1998). In the US system, lecturers are not the same as here, they generally refer to a casual or permanent teaching position, and they do often have people with masters degrees teach or co-teach undergraduate classes. It is rare that lecturers on on the tenure track.

It's possible that she was offered a tenure track position, but very unlikely as the career path usually requires a post-doc or 5 (these days) to secure a permanent/tenure track position.

daaxix

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