As in, having observed the UG experience at Edinburgh first-hand but at Cambridge only second-hand. Whereas the GP did the reverse.
This was also my observation but in the reverse direction. I turned down a place at Cambridge to do my undergrad at Edinburgh a few years ago (for various reasons, not relevant here). It was only the top n% of students…
Some counties in England still have state grammar schools and still follow the 11+ process. The 163 that the poster above you is referring to are state, selective, schools, rather than private grammar schools. There's a…
My first job out of college was like this. My manager knew I had no work and had no particular interest in letting me take on anything I proposed or found. I ended up quitting a few months in because (on top of a few…
Same situation for me (albeit left the job at the end of the contract, not laid off). I’ve had the laptop for over a year now because IT refused to pay return shipping. I’ve followed up a few times and been told it’ll…
Yeah, I wish I'd had "free time" in college. 60-70 hour work weeks were normal - 20 hours a week in class and then a full-time load of courseworks / readings / labs etc. I couldn't afford to take time off on weekends…
I've put them in a Gist for you: https://gist.github.com/andmikey/4da65e0085104e514286678c431.... The script I run is wiktionary_scraper.py, it assumes you've got a vocab_main.xlsx that contains a "lookup" sheet with…
Yeah, it's something I can time myself: I'm on about 6 years of daily usage at this point so it comes very easily. Anki also lets you set a time-out on cards as well. I'll know just from looking at the front of the card…
CSV import (from Excel / Google Sheets) is my go-to for this as well. Added bonus is being able to script things - I have some Python scripts that will do a lot of the hard work for me when making cards for a new…
One way you can achieve this using SRS is forcing very short recall times. I average under 2 seconds a card in review: my view is that if I can't recall it in under 2 seconds (what would be realistic in a real-life…
I’ve just graduated in Computer Science and I’m trying this pivot as well, but without the b-school (yet). ~2 years of tech work experience during my degree and I realised tech just doesn’t work for me right now.…
UK unis are a lot better at using the full grading scale, in my experience. 70% gets you a 'first class' [0], but there's a lot of room in the 70-100 range to differentiate performance. It was a nice system because…
Not sure how long ago this was - photos on resumes is definitely not a thing in the UK anymore. Very common in some European countries (e.g. Germany), though.
For my Thinkpad (Thinkpad 13, I think it's called L-series now) installing Ubuntu was no trouble at all - set up a bootable USB, install, and done. Ubuntu actually runs much better than Windows!
Government apps no - both require a 'modern' Android or iPhone. Banking apps partially - I can't use the web browser on my phone (it doesn't support modern enough crypto) but I can use the web browser on my laptop.…
I've been using a Blackberry Passport since early 2019 - as a replacement for the "dumb" phone I used for many years. I love it! The build quality is fantastic. The keyboard is a beauty to type on. The camera is great…
> They make offers expecting that the vast majority of them will be met, rather than over-offering and expecting A-level results to prune the numbers significantly. Notable exception to this would be Cambridge maths,…
Huh. I'm in the UK and no problems... moving to Germany in a few weeks so we'll see if I have the same problem! Such a lovely phone though. Now that I have it I can't imagine using anything else.
Interesting. I bought a Passport cheap last year to replace my old feature phone - works a treat, no problems with signal. I wonder if it's a US vs EU thing...?
Basically everything described above is in Anki / AnkiWeb [0]: - Pre-made decks of cards on a range of subjects available on the web ("shared decks"). - Cloud storage of cards (AnkiWeb). - Syncing reviews between…
As in, having observed the UG experience at Edinburgh first-hand but at Cambridge only second-hand. Whereas the GP did the reverse.
This was also my observation but in the reverse direction. I turned down a place at Cambridge to do my undergrad at Edinburgh a few years ago (for various reasons, not relevant here). It was only the top n% of students…
Some counties in England still have state grammar schools and still follow the 11+ process. The 163 that the poster above you is referring to are state, selective, schools, rather than private grammar schools. There's a…
My first job out of college was like this. My manager knew I had no work and had no particular interest in letting me take on anything I proposed or found. I ended up quitting a few months in because (on top of a few…
Same situation for me (albeit left the job at the end of the contract, not laid off). I’ve had the laptop for over a year now because IT refused to pay return shipping. I’ve followed up a few times and been told it’ll…
Yeah, I wish I'd had "free time" in college. 60-70 hour work weeks were normal - 20 hours a week in class and then a full-time load of courseworks / readings / labs etc. I couldn't afford to take time off on weekends…
I've put them in a Gist for you: https://gist.github.com/andmikey/4da65e0085104e514286678c431.... The script I run is wiktionary_scraper.py, it assumes you've got a vocab_main.xlsx that contains a "lookup" sheet with…
Yeah, it's something I can time myself: I'm on about 6 years of daily usage at this point so it comes very easily. Anki also lets you set a time-out on cards as well. I'll know just from looking at the front of the card…
CSV import (from Excel / Google Sheets) is my go-to for this as well. Added bonus is being able to script things - I have some Python scripts that will do a lot of the hard work for me when making cards for a new…
One way you can achieve this using SRS is forcing very short recall times. I average under 2 seconds a card in review: my view is that if I can't recall it in under 2 seconds (what would be realistic in a real-life…
I’ve just graduated in Computer Science and I’m trying this pivot as well, but without the b-school (yet). ~2 years of tech work experience during my degree and I realised tech just doesn’t work for me right now.…
UK unis are a lot better at using the full grading scale, in my experience. 70% gets you a 'first class' [0], but there's a lot of room in the 70-100 range to differentiate performance. It was a nice system because…
Not sure how long ago this was - photos on resumes is definitely not a thing in the UK anymore. Very common in some European countries (e.g. Germany), though.
For my Thinkpad (Thinkpad 13, I think it's called L-series now) installing Ubuntu was no trouble at all - set up a bootable USB, install, and done. Ubuntu actually runs much better than Windows!
Government apps no - both require a 'modern' Android or iPhone. Banking apps partially - I can't use the web browser on my phone (it doesn't support modern enough crypto) but I can use the web browser on my laptop.…
I've been using a Blackberry Passport since early 2019 - as a replacement for the "dumb" phone I used for many years. I love it! The build quality is fantastic. The keyboard is a beauty to type on. The camera is great…
> They make offers expecting that the vast majority of them will be met, rather than over-offering and expecting A-level results to prune the numbers significantly. Notable exception to this would be Cambridge maths,…
Huh. I'm in the UK and no problems... moving to Germany in a few weeks so we'll see if I have the same problem! Such a lovely phone though. Now that I have it I can't imagine using anything else.
Interesting. I bought a Passport cheap last year to replace my old feature phone - works a treat, no problems with signal. I wonder if it's a US vs EU thing...?
Basically everything described above is in Anki / AnkiWeb [0]: - Pre-made decks of cards on a range of subjects available on the web ("shared decks"). - Cloud storage of cards (AnkiWeb). - Syncing reviews between…