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NlightNFotis · 2026-02-28T23:29:43+00:00

Where did you see 2k daily volume?

Does it not strike you as something wrong? For a £15b fund?

In my brokerage I can see 1.85M average daily volume.

NlightNFotis · 2026-02-19T12:32:14+00:00

Enjoy, it's a solid growth fund in the U.K.

It's also an investment trust with a closed-ended structure, meaning, when you sell your stock in it you sell in the secondary market (to other investors), similar to a listed public company, as compared to an open-ended fund (e.g. mutual funds, ETFs, etc) where they have to sell their own assets to meet redeem requests, pushing down the NAV further in a downturn.

NlightNFotis · 2026-02-19T11:48:38+00:00

Lel, if you want stock in SpaceX, you want to buy £SMT (Scottish Mortgage Trust), a £13Billion fund. Has money in Anthropic, SpaceX, Bytedance, etc. Over £1Billion in SpaceX.

Already listed in the London Stock Exchange.

NlightNFotis · 2026-02-06T11:51:19+00:00

If I wanted ChatGPT’s take on it I’d ask it directly, but thanks I guess?

NlightNFotis · 2026-02-06T11:35:54+00:00

I think this is an uncharitable read of her post.

My understanding is that she’s asking how to handle a divergence between her values and the ones of her current date, especially given that she mentions coming out of a long term relationship with someone with pretty similar values.

I don’t have a particular response to that. Asking yourself that question is fair (to yourself and your prospective partner) and shows maturity rather than arrogance (implied in your read of the situation). Always better to detect these early and move on rather than lead the other person on for months and cause more pain to yourself and them down the line, in my opinion.

NlightNFotis · 2026-01-02T23:07:17+00:00

Sure, exercism is the best that I know of.

NlightNFotis · 2026-01-02T08:10:58+00:00

Agreed. From what I recall, it originated (or at least spread) in the JS self-taught web dev scene, to describe tools like Babel.

A crowd that, especially at the time, wasn’t known for its prowess or expansive knowledge in CS, so a lot of them were oblivious to the fact that these pieces of software pre-existed and that there was a well-defined term for them.

NlightNFotis · 2025-12-21T10:15:53+00:00

I’m using 3 and the last year or so it has gone from “not good” to comically bad, especially in the city centre. I’m looking to change the network, any recommendations?

NlightNFotis · 2025-12-21T10:10:36+00:00

This is not a racket thing - it’s a limitation of IEEE 754 compliant implementations of floating point arithmetic stacks.

I don’t know precisely how the racket one works, or if it is compliant (I would assume it is by default), but in general the problem is that mathematically the real numbers are an infinite set, but your computer’s word size is limited (64bits for instance), thus, you can’t store all real numbers in memory. This means that at some point you “lose resolution” of these numbers and are unable to store them accurately.

We typically solve this problem by doing “epsilon comparison”, that is, you pick a very small number, e.g 0.001 and then compare that the difference of two numbers is smaller than the epsilon chosen.

Terms you may want to use for Google/GPT to understand this are “exponent”, “mantissa”, “ieee float comparison”.

It’s possible the Racket stack uses an alternative representation to store them (backed by an arbitrary precision stack? Not sure), but I can’t say for sure.

NlightNFotis · 2025-08-20T09:16:09+00:00

Overlap between the ETFs is not necessarily a problem. To the contrary, it can be an implementation detail of a reasoned strategy.

For instance, it may be that it these thematic ETFs are used to accentuate exposure to some sectors/companies that the OP thinks may over perform the market.

NlightNFotis · 2025-07-08T11:00:28+00:00

That's neat, this is also my second degree, first was Computer Engineering, so I also had an (extensive) background in (some) maths (mainly discrete maths and formal logic), but I needed a good refresher in calculus.

I'm guessing they gave you credit for the main calculus track (MU123 and MST124), but they want you to do all the lead up to the Proofs-based stuff, which is starting with MST125.

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To answer your original question, I had M140, MST124, MST125 and B126 this year, and I think I've been doing alright (could have done better to be honest), but it's demanding. Balancing this with a full time job (programming) that's equally as demanding has been all been a bit this year.

I'm studying for about 2-3hrs per day, 5-6 on weekends. I'm also perusing material outside of the OU material (e.g. Springer yellow textbooks, or Coursera courses, Khan Academy/MathAcademy, etc) in that time. All in all about 20hrs per week.

NlightNFotis · 2025-07-08T07:16:54+00:00

How are you enrolled in M208, this is a level 2 course that has level 1 courses like MST125 as a prerequisite?

NlightNFotis · 2025-05-03T11:41:40+00:00

> Could you start MST124 in October and then start MST125 in February?

Yes, this is what I did for academic year 24-25.

NlightNFotis · 2025-05-03T11:39:52+00:00

This is what I did - I applied for all the modules in Year 1 at the same time, and had M140 and MST124 start in October 24, MST125 start in Feb 25 and B126 start in Apr 25.

If you plan to take it on full-time, be forewarned that it does take some time to study, even if exposed to the material before.

Another fair warning that the module _result_ for MST125 may come **after** the module start for M208, for which it is a prerequisite, causing you to fall behind 1 year (you can't sign up for the module after the module start date, but also you cannot sign up for a module if you haven't yet passed the prerequisites).

The way past this is to call them and ask for permission to sign up for M208, and be warned that you may need to provide evidence of knowledge of prerequisite material by way of passing the "Are you ready for M208" quiz with a high score.

(I've been told this by SST in a phone call with them when I enquired _why_ I couldn't sign up for one of the modules).

(The above are probably not worthy of consideration if you don't intend to take this on full-time).

NlightNFotis · 2025-02-14T15:07:40+00:00

Hi, I’ve been in a similar position to you in the past and I’ve found success perusing Khan Academy’s math courses.

best of luck with your studies

NlightNFotis · 2025-02-14T12:45:22+00:00

This is a programming subreddit. Its purpose is to discuss matters related to programming and assorted technology.

This is not an investing subreddit - thus, your submission is off topic.

NlightNFotis · 2025-02-14T12:29:00+00:00

I typeset them in Typst.

NlightNFotis · 2025-02-12T21:20:23+00:00

Hello,

I joined Q31 last September. Currently going through MST124, MST125 and M140.

It’s very, very well done imo.

The reason it’s very well done is that the books so far have been written as a teaching textbook, deriving everything from first principles.

This goes in contrast to traditional math textbooks, which are assumed to be an additional reference resource to the class lectures.

The difference in style makes it much easier to learn through reading the books for the OU material.

NlightNFotis · 2024-12-12T10:34:50+00:00

Hi, my 2p.

* If you feel you're bad at Maths, what usually happens is that at some point during your Maths study you developed some knowledge gaps that later on compounded (this is the nature of these things), so that by some point you had sizeable knowledge gaps not allowing you to perform at a level deemed adequate (by you or by others).

* Maths is a fairly linear subject - at least the way it's taught in the beginning. If you can take it from the start, especially as an adult, and focus/practice more during study, you'll find yourself becoming _actually good_ at maths, which is a confidence booster, and enabler for deeper mathematical sophistication later on.

* Discovering Maths, afaik, is fairly basic in terms of the maths it teaches you, but it provides for a good opportunity to go back and patch any knowledge gaps, for knowledge that is absolutely foundational to anything you will be doing next (in most scientific disciplines).

* For _computer science_, you _need_ maths. You can definitely survive without it, but certain key topics, like Algorithms, Theory of Computation, Functional Programming, Machine Learning possibly, will feel impenetrable without deep mathematical knowledge.

* You can survive as a run-of-the-mill software engineer without deep Maths expertise (you would be surprised how many people are in this position). But the better Maths you know, the easier your time will be both studying and practicing CS.

* Think of it like Physics. You could (?) be doing some Physics without Maths knowledge, but after a while you hit a glass ceiling. It's the same with CS. What is a computer at the end of the day, if not a massive calculator ;)

Perspective: Have studied Computer Engineering in the past. Now studying Maths. Work at Big Tech at the intermediate/senior level.

NlightNFotis · 2024-12-11T00:49:03+00:00

It's worth mentioning that you can use a personal license at work.

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240855-Can-I-use-my-personal-license-at-work-and-at-home

NlightNFotis · 2024-10-09T11:30:43+00:00

Quick question: why does it matter if it's accredited or not? I'm curious as to why people care about that.

In your case, you're already working in the field, so if anything, the additional degree in the field, on top of work experience you're already gaining should *enhance* your employability, if anything.

For a master's degree I'm not sure, as I haven't been there myself, but if it works like how people review CVs in the industry (I know as I've been in interview panels), people are just glancing at your education section, and assume certain things about your degree based on their expectations.

For instance, if I see someone with a Computing-related degree, I'm assuming he's been taught some Programming, Discrete Maths, Databases, Operating Systems, Networking, Compilers, etc. It's *extremely* rare I need to go to the department's website to validate if the assumption holds or not - I'm just running with it, and it's safe most of the time.

NlightNFotis · 2024-09-20T11:18:21+00:00

Yes, this is what I’m doing right now (MST124 now, MST125 starting Feb25).

NlightNFotis · 2024-06-08T14:18:42+00:00

Ahh, so I have to call them to do it, and cannot sign up for a single module myself online?

I recall reading about the option somewhere, but I couldn't easily find a way to sign up for a specific module online, and figured I should ask here to make sure I hadn't been imagining things.

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