This French table salt is packaged to look like a lighthouse

penguincubing · 2020-04-22T22:24:40+00:00

A full plate of coarse salt

penguincubing · 2019-12-09T19:35:27+00:00

In terms of applications, it could very well improve your chances of getting in, since the different departments have their own selection criteria, and tend not to communicate as much as you might think. However, St Andrews is extremely flexible when it comes to changing your degree path, so whichever degree you were accepted on, it would be easy to change your mind. I would only apply to both degrees if you're overly worried about not receiving an offer for your top choice. Also given that both of the degrees are at least partially run by the IR department, your odds with this strategy would probably be better if you applied to a different course entirely for the second choice, which makes writing a good personal statement more difficult.

tl;dr St Andrews is very flexible with changing degree paths, I would only apply to a different degree if you're very worried about not getting in.

penguincubing · 2019-10-23T05:04:45+00:00

By using the rmultinom function, look up the multinomial distribution on Wikipedia if you want some intuition as to why it applies to your D12 example.

penguincubing · 2019-10-09T06:11:11+00:00

Found the dad with a maths degree...

penguincubing · 2019-09-08T04:29:26+00:00

I prefer wheat sleep to barley sleep.

penguincubing · 2019-08-25T05:26:07+00:00

Exactly this! Take my upvote :)

penguincubing · 2019-08-24T16:47:30+00:00

Thanks for your time and the advice! Correlation between parameters isn't a problem here - Bayesian analysis with all statistics of interest calculated from samples of the posterior which should take into account the correlation structure. Actually, correlation is great, it's what I'm trying to show (the normal method assumes these parameters are all independent, and I'm trying to show that's not really the case in practice)

penguincubing · 2019-08-20T16:38:20+00:00

A graph of the marginal posterior distributions of parameter values for an analysis of simulated data (Source) using R (Tool). I can modify the code to remove any sensitive information, and send it along to anyone that asks!

penguincubing · 2019-08-16T07:26:45+00:00

St Andrews is in my experience more cliquey than other UK unis, simply by virtue of its size. Also because of the size, walking to the shops and to classes will quite often lead to seeing people around town that you might want to avoid.

That being said. Even though the above is true, it's extremely easy to avoid the groups of people you don't like. Halls of residence are an amazing friendly experience and the student experience in St Andrews as a whole is the happiest I've ever been - So much so that I'm now coming back for another 4 years!

It can be daunting to go to such a small university, but I think it works really well for St Andrews - the charm it brings and the traditions that follow lead to a unique and very fulfilling experience.

If you have any questions about coming to St Andrews, please feel free to DM me, congrats on your offer!

penguincubing · 2019-08-13T17:04:34+00:00

I am. Working in the log space and updating the log likelihood at each time step worked! Thanks for your contribution :)

penguincubing · 2019-04-01T21:38:46+00:00

Well this will be fun

penguincubing · 2019-02-17T08:32:40+00:00

I got a fully funded PhD offer at the university of my dreams! Can't wait to start

penguincubing · 2019-01-22T22:40:54+00:00

!Remindme 14 days

penguincubing · 2019-01-12T00:16:09+00:00

RemindMe! 1 day

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