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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • I believe the theory goes something along the lines of feudalism being centered about renting (ie land) and with manafacture that shifted to a product-based economy. With time, renting has regained dominance and is reaching a whole new level now that most capital is tied up in the cloud (AWS, azure etc.)





  • It depends on the exam. One exam where it was totally possible was the EEE aero MAT for imperial college London. They have retired it since but i got about 50% (i know someone who got an interview with a negative score) because whenever the answer was a function, i could plug the function into the question ratger than do it from first principles (eg differential equations).





  • I’m from the uk and they definitely shoe-horn in “real world” problems here too. In my A level exams we had to:

    • Find the volume of a vase with parametric volumes of revolution and de moivres theorum
    • Find the population of a bacterial colony with a second order decoupled differential equation
    • use polar integration to find the area of a porch

    But there were also more pure questions which was good