Posts Tagged ‘ probability ’
This week saw the continuation of teaching myself PHP / MySQL, finding it a fair bit easier than other programming languages – probably due to both their nature (being web-based) and the fact that I’ve had a year of computer science at university to instil some kind of core concepts. Anyway, that’s coming along well, [ READ MORE ]
According to Ron Burgandy, “that doesn’t make sense”. However, a deeper analysis reveals that it does, in fact, make sense, and furthermore that these are quite good odds for a cologne. First, we look at what we know: “60% of the time, it works every time” – if we think of it as Brian Fantana testing it [ READ MORE ]
Who thought it was a good idea to put important exams in the same term as good weather? They just don’t fit together in any way. Anyway, I flew back to Oxford on the Monday, and so had a few days to sort myself out / revise before 2 3-hour exams on Friday. The Pure [ READ MORE ]
Although noticeably less busy than week 4 (at least on paper / Google Calendar), week 5 still turned out to be just as hectic as the week that preceded it. Linear Algebra was replaced by Groups, Rings and Fields, which has proved to be interesting enough so far, and probability was replaced by statistics (optional [ READ MORE ]
With the Christmas holidays been and gone, it is now time for another 8 weeks of non-much-free-time, bad dreams about problem sheets and undecided sleeping patterns – Hilary term is here. And so far, it hasn’t been all that bad. Alright, I’ll give that it started off badly with Collections. That’s what Oxford (possibly also Cambridge?) [ READ MORE ]