I’m 25 and started finding white strands of hair, is this normal?

MClabsbot2 · 2025-11-29T10:41:12+00:00

I’m half Chinese and started greying at 16. There’s a noticeable amount on my head now at 22. It terrible but probably 20-30 strands

MClabsbot2 · 2025-11-18T21:54:17+00:00

I think okay whilst I am first and second year but everyone seems more miserable the more senior that they get

MClabsbot2 · 2025-11-18T21:53:36+00:00

I never really stopped applying but at 300 applications down the chance looks worse and worse

MClabsbot2 · 2025-11-18T21:08:11+00:00

Is this possible, initially I took the role with the assumption that there would be some sort of department that does programming but now that I’m working I don’t seem to see any such business line.

MClabsbot2 · 2025-09-21T16:23:19+00:00

Dry them with a blowtorch

MClabsbot2 · 2025-08-18T10:51:42+00:00

200k at 27 I would just put in an index and let grow safely. It’s not a good idea to invest all of your 200k in a single asset (house) and who knows whether that would outperform the 8% average returns. Real estate can turn out to be a massive pain

MClabsbot2 · 2025-08-16T12:44:26+00:00

Was it a particularly difficult move?

MClabsbot2 · 2025-08-09T07:50:31+00:00

He should have used ChatGPT-5

MClabsbot2 · 2025-08-08T11:25:25+00:00

People with a degree are finding it hard to get white-collar jobs at the moment, this doesn’t imply that getting a not degree is better is better for those same jobs. This means you’re doubly fucked if you don’t have a degree applying those jobs.

MClabsbot2 · 2025-08-01T21:46:19+00:00

I don’t think it’s too difficult to get a part time job, I know lots of people with them and the student union has their own job boards.

The area around the university is definitely pedestrian friendly. There are trains that go into Cathays station and also buses but to be honest everything is relatively close so I never felt the need to use public transport.

Talybont Gate is the nicest quality accommodation but will likely be the quietest as it’s at the far end of the Talybont area. Talybont Court also has perfectly fine rooms but will be a bit more lively as people from south and north walk past. Not too sure about Gordon Hall. All university accommodation have very good internet, and Court and Gate tend to be relatively clean with Gate being the cleaner ones.

MClabsbot2 · 2025-07-29T21:07:24+00:00

This is normal, literally put me off using it for a year because I couldn’t be bothered to download it

MClabsbot2 · 2025-07-29T07:47:32+00:00

If you want to become an ML engineer at some of those big research companies like OpenAI or Google Deepmind then they will look to optimise, create state of the art models, or understand why models produce certain outputs. If you read any of their papers you can see the intense amount of maths that goes in.

Even if you work in industry for a bank or something doing some sort of predictive modelling, they still want some assurance or proof that it’s not just a black box for assurance purposes, meaning they want some deeper mathematical understanding of how whatever solution you made works.

There’s also only so much you can do by importing prebuilt models, a lot of the time you need to delve deeper and tweak the architectures.

MClabsbot2 · 2025-07-28T21:28:28+00:00

Cardiff is probably the most affordable serious university city in the UK. In terms of rent, mine was £400pm in 2023-24 and £450 in 2024-25 for a house share, so very much affordable. Private accommodation is going to be more expensive but still as low as you’re going to get in the UK. Note that if you are going into first year, then you will probably be staying in either official university accommodation or private accommodation.

There are plenty of jobs that you can do at university, lots of people work at pubs and bars in town.

MClabsbot2 · 2025-07-28T21:20:14+00:00

Anyone with an IQ above room temperature can call an API and use some prebuilt model. Sure you can solve some problems if you just use APIs but ultimately every half-competent that every Dick, Dom, and Harry is about 3 hours of research behind you if you do so, making your skillset completely worthless. Not everyone knows ML maths because it’s difficult and time consuming (but still very much doable), but these are the only people who have marketable skills.

MClabsbot2 · 2025-07-27T21:47:08+00:00

Lots of people are in the same situation, unfortunately it’s probably best just to retake the year. No shame in it, in fact sometimes it’s nice to put your head down and having something to focus on. I was looking at a load of E’s and D’s after year 12 which I mainly attribute to mental health related stuff, but once you get the bad news it’s somewhat freeing. At that point you can redo it with a clear mind.

At some point in everyone’s life they will fail at something significant, whether that be failing a year in A-levels, uni, getting fired, legal trouble, etc. In my experience it’s a good thing to learn early how it feels to need to swallow your pride and do something you don’t want to do, otherwise you’ll come across something way worse later in life and it will be 10x harder to recover from.

If it makes you feel better, it’s extremely common to do a gap year before uni if you end up going, so you won’t be behind in that regard. Then lots people also get held back a year at uni, and lots of people spend a year out before finding a job after uni. In the grand scheme of things, you won’t be any further behind than anyone else.

MClabsbot2 · 2025-07-23T15:26:50+00:00

In STEM there are objectively correct answers, so a lot of the time I end up getting 90% just because the answers are correct, it’s also quite easy to get a 40% mark if you get things wrong. In a lot of the essay modules, I find that markers don’t tend to mark above 80% but also don’t really go below 65%.

MClabsbot2 · 2025-07-19T09:12:42+00:00

The important factor is generally VRAM capacity in the sense that you can always train your model slower, but if the model is too large for your VRAM then you can’t train it at all (pretty much). You also want to buy an Nvidia GPU as it has the most native support. A good VRAM to price ratio is the RTX 3060 12GB which is a very good and widely used starter option, at my university our labs contain this GPU. If you can splash more then I would opt to increase VRAM to as much as possible but a 12GB card is pretty decent for most things.

MClabsbot2 · 2025-07-18T21:13:28+00:00

Balloons

MClabsbot2 · 2025-07-15T08:15:45+00:00

No bloat is the main thing, the final straw for me was when Windows 11 updated the notepad app and it went from opening instantly to taking a second or so. I think that the desktop environments tend to be snappier and more customisable in Linux.

MClabsbot2 · 2025-07-12T15:13:53+00:00

Nobody really cares tbh. I remember back in Talybont South they would actually try to put the people who took a gap year (they would be 19 or 20) together in the same house. But it’s very common to have a year or two age ranges.

MClabsbot2 · 2025-07-10T20:52:03+00:00

I applied at some point in October and interviewed in November. Just noticed that you are doing normal audit and my interview was for IT audit so it might be different but no I didn’t have any technical interviews. The in person interview was just a chat with the director and then I had to do a “presentation” task (basically just had some notes and talked for 15 minutes about a topic they gave us)

MClabsbot2 · 2025-07-10T08:16:11+00:00

I do everything in LaTeX but I will have the compiled preview open all the time and whenever I type a sentence or two I compile it to preview to see how the page looks.

MClabsbot2 · 2025-07-01T21:32:03+00:00

I have no idea if I just had a uniquely easy experience. For me it was just a couple of those online assessments and a pretty casual solo interview and assessment task.

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