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Reply 2080

If anyone's a bit confused, I've merged the two threads for applicants.

As well as the "post your decision thread", one of you will almost certainly set up an "offer holders thread" tomorrow.

So lots of threads. Hence why I merged these two that were basically the same :smile:

Reply 2081

L'Evil Fish

Original post by fluteflute

I preferred my title :cool:

Oh damn it, I can't make poll

Reply 2082

geodawson

I really don't want some long-winded letter where I have to search for my offer or rejection. A simple white piece of paper with "YES" or "NO" printed on it in bold impact font would do nicely. :tongue:

Reply 2083

tomfailinghelp

Okay, so I was feeling really nervous about tomorrow and tried to calm myself with some light reading, and ended up with this...

Any ideas? :redface:

Don't even know what 'P(dn) iff P(I(dn))' means.

I don't think this bodes well for the rest of my relaxation...

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Reply 2084

aersh8

Original post by Elcor

Saw this and thought of you (I know that sounds creepy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlnUEknwdcI

Haha awesome!! Dw, I'm not creeped out :wink:

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Reply 2085

Posiedon12

Original post by tomfailinghelp

Okay, so I was feeling really nervous about tomorrow and tried to calm myself with some light reading, and ended up with this...

Any ideas? :redface:

Don't even know what 'P(dn) iff P(I(dn))' means.

I don't think this bodes well for the rest of my relaxation...

You have a weird idea of light reading

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Reply 2086

tomfailinghelp

Original post by Posiedon12

You have a weird idea of light reading

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It was pretty standard till that point, and then bang - suddenly, numbers.

Reply 2087

Elcor

Original post by tomfailinghelp

It was pretty standard till that point, and then bang - suddenly, numbers.

First of all, I literally don't know what that's about after reading the whole text. Secondly, 'iff' means 'if and only if'.

Reply 2088

whatacrydonnie

Do you think the official applicants statistics page will be updated tomorrow or when all the applicants have heard back?

Reply 2089

Principia

Original post by whatacrydonnie

Do you think the official applicants statistics page will be updated tomorrow or when all the applicants have heard back?

From what I remember last year it wasn't for quite a while.

Reply 2090

tomfailinghelp

Original post by Elcor

First of all, I literally don't know what that's about after reading the whole text. Secondly, 'iff' means 'if and only if'.

Oh, it does? Thank-you! I've no familiarity with logic, if I'm lucky Cambridge will change that.

He's explaining supervenience (the claim that mental properties depend on physical properties by are not reducible to them) in terms of the idea that the world should be understood as 'layered' (like one layer is basic physics material, the next might be cells, the next biological organisms etc.). Then he's saying something about mental properties in this model (X and Y), but I'm probably more clueless than you are about what he's saying. Wtf does 'n-adic' mean?

:/ Sixth form life

Reply 2091

clhs2040

Hey guys, does Cambridge sends out Postgrad's decision letters the same time as undergrad?

Reply 2092

ClickItBack

Original post by tomfailinghelp

Okay, so I was feeling really nervous about tomorrow and tried to calm myself with some light reading, and ended up with this...

Any ideas? :redface:

Don't even know what 'P(dn) iff P(I(dn))' means.

I don't think this bodes well for the rest of my relaxation...

Wow, that looks pretty intense!

I'm no philosopher, so I'm working off a quick wiki of supervenience here and I may well be off base, but here's my 2 cents. The first indented paragraph is basically saying if entities x and y are 'indiscernible' at all levels lower than some level L, then they're indiscernible at level L.

Or, as I would intuitively put it, your high-level properties are determined entirely by your lower level properties (I find the wiki example of a human thought as highest level, then the next level being the biology of the brain, then the chemistry of the brain, then down to the physics and atoms of the brain etc to be useful to get a grip on this).

In the next indented paragraph they define microindiscernibility. What they're saying here is that for any 'property/relation' P, if you have a mapping from the lower parts of x to the lower parts of y (they call this mapping I) such that the 'property' of the lower parts of x is the same as the 'property' of the mapping of the lower parts of y (and the same from y to x), then x and y are microindiscernible.

Or, as I would intuitively try to put it, if you can somehow match up the bits of x to the bits of y at low levels so that they have the same 'result' for any property, then they're microindiscernible - i.e. they are pretty much the same at a low level (wiki uses the nice example of 'under this idea, if you could clone a physical body, then you would automatically induce a cloning of the psychological state as well').

They haven't defined exactly what they mean by a property on that page so that's a bit ambiguous to me atm - it would seem to me that you should be able to have 'microindiscernibility with respect to specific properties' as well, but I can't say from that page alone.

Oh and iff means if and only if i.e. both necessary and sufficient.

Reply 2093

AMRF

Original post by jneill

Everyone else definitely gets a letter. The offers are all decided, except for the relatively few people still being interviewed. The pool finished this Tuesday.

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The pool interviews. But http://www.study.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/publications/docs/winterpool_2014.pdf

Reply 2094

fluteflute

Original post by whatacrydonnie

Do you think the official applicants statistics page will be updated tomorrow or when all the applicants have heard back?

Original post by Principia

From what I remember last year it wasn't for quite a while.

Don't forget about the people who have already been contacted and asked back for interviews. They obviously won't know tomorrow, so it wouldn't be possible to give final stats.

Reply 2095

AMRF

Original post by ianna.andreea

Lucky you! Then I'm going down alone..... :facepalm:

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But I still have (hope so) to meet the language requirments :,(

Reply 2096

Doones

Original post by AMRF

The pool interviews. But http://www.study.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/publications/docs/winterpool_2014.pdf

That's for 2013/2014

This is the one you need:
http://www.study.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/publications/docs/winterpool_2015.pdf

:wink:

Also http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/admissions/handbook/section1/1_6.html#3

Pool open:

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Sunday 4 January 2015 (11.00am - 6.00pm)

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Monday 5 January 2015 (9.00am - 6.00pm)

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Tuesday 6 January 2015 (9.00am - 6.00pm)

Pool interview dates:
At its meeting in February 2014, the Admissions Forum agreed that there should be no hard-set Winter Pool interview dates for subjects, but that these should take place wherever possible between 10-13 January 2015 with 14 January as a back-up if needed.

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Reply 2097

whatacrydonnie

Original post by fluteflute

Don't forget about the people who have already been contacted and asked back for interviews. They obviously won't know tomorrow, so it wouldn't be possible to give final stats.

They could do the stats for direct offers but that wouldn't make much sense... I'm just eager to see the statistic for this year :tongue:

Reply 2098

AMRF

Original post by jneill

That's for 2013/2014

This is the one you need:
http://www.study.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/publications/docs/winterpool_2015.pdf

:wink:

Thank you. But it is still not clear. And on of your previous posts it was said that international applicants will only receive an email after the pool, that's why I am scared :s-smilie:

Reply 2099

tomfailinghelp

Original post by ClickItBack

In the next indented paragraph they define microindiscernibility. What they're saying here is that for any 'property/relation' P, if you have a mapping from the lower parts of x to the lower parts of y (they call this mapping I) such that the 'property' of the lower parts of x is the same as the 'property' of the mapping of the lower parts of y (and the same from y to x), then x and y are microindiscernible.

Or, as I would intuitively try to put it, if you can somehow match up the bits of x to the bits of y at low levels so that they have the same 'result' for any property, then they're microindiscernible - i.e. they are pretty much the same at a low level (wiki uses the nice example of 'under this idea, if you could clone a physical body, then you would automatically induce a cloning of the psychological state as well').

They haven't defined exactly what they mean by a property on that page so that's a bit ambiguous to me atm - it would seem to me that you should be able to have 'microindiscernibility with respect to specific properties' as well, but I can't say from that page alone.

Oh and iff means if and only if i.e. both necessary and sufficient.

Thank-you! Very helpful :smile:

I think I'm going to read this through again in a bit, hahaha! I think he's just saying that the properties of wholes are determined by the properties of their parts, which would make sense as he (he's called Kim, lol) is looking at the relationship between M and P.

You're not an applicant then? :wink: