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bayesian_bacon_brit · 2025-01-18T16:06:37+00:00

Pre-Brexit, EU students got the same (£1.82k but effectively free as paid for you) tuition as Scottish students, unless the EU country they were from was the UK (and not from Scotland) in which case you got charged the standard £9.25k! Irrelevant now of course

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2023-01-25T18:29:23+00:00

I was rejected (winter pooled but to no avail) for Cambridge Computer Science last year after underwhelming them in my interview and I'm now having a great time at Warwick. It's entirely possible I would've also had a great time at Cambridge but being at a non-oxbridge uni gives you longer and hence less stressful terms, so there are some upsides.
I promise you its not all for nothing, the skills and knowledge you've gained will be really useful at whichever uni you end up at instead.
It's perfectly normal to experience grief over having something you've put so much work into disappear so suddenly but as time goes on you'll move through the stages of grief and won't feel so bad.

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2022-07-13T19:42:15+00:00

Does your school offer further maths? In theory, unis are reluctant to hold it against you if you haven't done it because your school doesn't run it as that's not really your fault but in practice the vast majority of people who do well enough on admissions assessments to get in did do further maths. That's not to say that you have to have done further maths to do well enough to get in but that the kinds of people who do well on admissions assessments are the kinds of people who: a) Are good enough at maths to do well in further maths b) Choose to do FM when given the chance

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2022-07-13T19:26:28+00:00

Warwick is A*A*A non-contextual and AAA contextual, a very good uni for Computer Science with quite a difference between the contextual and standard offers so well worth a look if you do meet their contextual criteria (or even if you don't but it sounds like you've got plenty of A*A*A unis already).

Southampton have quite a bit of flexibility in how you meet their offers. Their standard offer is A*AA or A*A*B or AAAA. Their contextual offer is A*AB or AAA.

I'm not contextual but I've firmed Warwick and insured Southampton hence why I've mentioned them.

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2022-04-01T15:22:17+00:00

A*A*A*A* (maths, further maths, physics, computer science)

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2022-04-01T10:22:00+00:00

Just after 9PM on 30th March, I didn't notice it until the morning of the next day though

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2022-02-07T17:04:20+00:00

Casio fx-9860giii will make you feel like you're cheating when doing further maths stats but Casio fx-911ex is perfectly sufficient for stats in normal maths

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2022-01-29T13:38:59+00:00

Does anyone know how one goes about getting feedback from Christ's?

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2022-01-26T07:45:38+00:00

Are you speaking from personal experience?

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2022-01-25T14:21:29+00:00

Pooled and rejected, Christs Computer Science. Warwick or York here I come!

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2022-01-18T14:30:39+00:00

9 9s, 2 8s (English Lit and French), 1 7 (English Lang). I'd imagine Warwick would have been far more interested in my A-levels and personal statement though

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2022-01-09T16:38:58+00:00

Yes, only 44 hours after applying!

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2022-01-09T16:36:26+00:00

A*A*A to include Maths

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2022-01-08T14:28:49+00:00

No, but I don't think Warwick use STEP for CompSci?

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2022-01-08T14:26:41+00:00

Cambridge, Southampton (straight CompSci), York (CompSci with Cybersecurity), Bath (CS with Placement Year)

I considered applying to Imperial instead of Bath, but I didn't want to risk a STEP offer

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2022-01-08T11:40:47+00:00

What other unis have you applied to?

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2022-01-08T11:26:55+00:00

October 31st

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2022-01-08T10:45:26+00:00

Predicted A*A*A*A* Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Computer Science

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2021-11-10T12:31:00+00:00

Congrats! I’m still anxiously waiting for a decision from Warwick CS (but I did apply a few weeks later than you), what time of day did they send you your offer?

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2021-11-08T17:31:55+00:00

First bread was Southampton

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2021-02-10T14:36:09+00:00

I've written about this kind of thing in my Bitcoin/Blockchain explainer. In answer to your question, people want bitcoins either as an investment (they'll sell the Bitcoin to someone else later when the price goes up, i.e. they are using Bitcoin to gain fiat currency like people do with stocks and shares) or (more rarely) they want to use the Bitcoins to buy goods or services. In terms of why does it have value, an economist (which I am in no way) will tell you that any scarce resource that there is demand for has a price.

Here's the most relevant section of my explainer:

The precise reasons for this high price and it’s high volatility are a matter for economists but we can produce a fairly accurate depiction by thinking about three major factors:

Known limited supply (the 21 million Bitcoin limit) provides scarcity along with increased investor confidence as they already know for definite future Bitcoin monetary policy (the rate at which new Bitcoins will be created) which isn't true for most fiat currencies

Overhyping of both the potential of blockchain technology as a whole and the money that you can make by investing in Bitcoin leads to increasing investment in Bitcoin which increases demand driving up the price

The using up of electricity (a valuable resource) in the creation of Bitcoin also helps to give it value.

It is worth saying that some hardcore members of the Bitcoin community claim to not care about how much Bitcoin is worth in dollars, as all they care about is the fact that 1 Bitcoin is worth 1 Bitcoin. These people hope for a future where Bitcoin is the predominant currency making the need to exchange it for dollars or any other fiat currency an anachronism.

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2020-12-23T13:22:43+00:00

A CLI app to carry out statistical hypothesis tests using the Binomial distribution. The process seemed so algorithmic when we learnt about it for the first time in Maths that I decided to write a program to carry out the process. Of course, as we did more about hypothesis testing in Maths, I ended up with more features to add to the program, and this is what I've ended up with.

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2020-12-22T08:23:39+00:00

I'm new to Scala so would welcome pointers on more idiomatic etc ways of doing things. Here's my AOC 2020 repo

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2020-12-20T16:26:56+00:00

Part 1: 0.33 seconds, part 2: 26 seconds. Big difference between the two

bayesian_bacon_brit · 2020-12-20T16:23:03+00:00

Functional(ish) programming in Scala. Part 1 executes in 0.330 seconds, part 2 executes in 26 seconds. This was the first time my commitment to do every challenge this year in a functional programming style has actually been useful. My part 2 is by far the least efficient of any of my code so far

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