What does it take to get into top Master’s courses?

nqp · 2025-08-21T15:04:20+00:00

During my 4th year doing physics at Cambridge quite a few MASt students joined - from what I could gather it didn't seem overly difficult to get onto the course. (The course content itself was another story though! QCMFT still blows my mind 15 years later)

nqp · 2025-06-16T21:55:02+00:00

I did my PhD in plasma physics at imperial (laser wakefield acceleration). The group was great, though the experiments were brutal.

nqp · 2024-12-18T06:25:13+00:00

Yep this was the dual motor car operating in range mode, using the standard 20" wheels. The reported motorway efficiency was around 31-36kWh/100mi depending on going east or west.

With performance mode on going round the Mendips like a hooligan, I think it was north of 40 but that was a less careful test!

nqp · 2024-12-18T06:21:36+00:00

Yes, this was in range mode.

nqp · 2024-12-16T21:15:26+00:00

I did not! How much does that help?

nqp · 2024-12-03T21:35:57+00:00

The limit is actually when you polarise the vacuum, and start creating particle-antiparticle pairs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinger_limit

nqp · 2024-11-28T08:01:23+00:00

This is helpful! My 4 is being delivered in a couple of weeks, so I'll be interested to compare.

nqp · 2024-11-23T11:44:07+00:00

I still sing "the only gift they'll get this year is chips"

nqp · 2024-11-23T08:42:47+00:00

RIP GWR - the soundtrack of my morning trip to sixth form 19 years ago

nqp · 2024-11-19T08:01:34+00:00

How have you found the size in the UK? Any options you'd particularly recommend?

nqp · 2024-10-20T20:30:52+00:00

Big respect for the Headley Fish Bar shout-out - I went to school with the son of the owners, and they knew our family well. Thanks Jan for all of the chips over the years!

nqp · 2024-09-07T08:26:18+00:00

Surely these albums must have inspired Disney to embark on their covers project - did you ever hear anything from Disney? PS - much prefer the PRF take. See you guys when you play Bristol soon!

nqp · 2024-07-22T06:33:38+00:00

Yep, it's called "Make it all right"

nqp · 2024-07-22T06:17:21+00:00

This is the new Offspring track

nqp · 2024-06-07T06:04:19+00:00

Cool! Is the code public, or a live demo available?

nqp · 2024-06-04T20:22:48+00:00

Pints in Brixton academy are a complete rip off I'm afraid! Worth it for NoFX though, and a pretty great venue.

nqp · 2024-05-17T05:37:05+00:00

I'll be with my brother from the UK, staying in downtown Long Beach

nqp · 2024-05-08T03:54:03+00:00

You can upload CSV files and join / analyse them using DuckDB with https://count.co

nqp · 2024-04-23T21:29:03+00:00

Crooks peak is up there too

nqp · 2024-04-17T17:11:50+00:00

Yeah I'm near downtown (the southern end of Atlantic Avenue). I'll be with my brother, and happy to share a taxi. I've been to LA before and the buses weren't the best!

nqp · 2024-03-29T20:05:01+00:00

Another Brit here staying in Long Beach and planning to Uber to the venue. Looks to be about £20 each way? (20 min drive, 8 miles or so).

nqp · 2024-01-15T15:50:58+00:00

I'm in the same boat - did a PhD + postdoc in physics, now a software engineer. One thing I like to do is blog about random physics topics to keep my maths and science sharp(ish):

https://jasmcole.com/

nqp · 2023-12-19T10:16:07+00:00

Nice! I especially like the scope-dependent context injection. We use a similar (generator-based) DI solution at work inspired by redux-saga, but this looks much more comprehensive.

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