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Trinity Term Week 3 Newsletter
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Icy Week with a Chance of Web, Code, and Movies
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Hope everyone found the Week 2 Hackathon and events fun; let's get active in week 3 with our long-awaited ice-skating event with the Invariants!
On Monday, we'll be having our joint
ice-skating session; Wednesday, a talk on web development; finishing the week with
Saturday: our regular Learn-to-Code session followed by our social with a twist: it's
movie night!!
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— Acie/Amos, CompSoc Vice President
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Fun Computing Fact: Quick DAA/ADS revision check: what's the complexity of the most efficient algorithm for multiplication you can give?
O(n2)? (yikes, go revise!) O(nlog23)? (ohhh Karatsuba, getting there) O(n (log n) (log log n))? (Strassen! Good job!)
What if I told you it's actually possible to do it in O(n log n)? In 2019, David Harvey and Joris van der Hoeven published a
paper that described an algorithm for multiplication in O(n log n) time. The catch? The constant is so large that the algorithm is basically impractical!
These asymptotically fast algorithms with huge impractical constants are called
Galactic Algorithms.
For all of your (practical/exam) uses, just stick to Karatsuba/Strassen's algorithm... :3
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^ The size of the constant for which Harvey/van der Hoeven's algorithm begins to run faster than Strassen's
(Source:
Wikipedia)
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Still not a member? How?! Membership only costs £1 for LIFE, with tons of benefits - discounts on merch and tickets, free food at all socials, our exclusive Discord server and more - so it's definitely worth signing up!
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Ice Skating with the Invariants
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Make sure you don't slip up on the ice - sign up now to our joint Ice Skating Social with the lovely Oxford Invariants on
Monday Week 3 from 6-7:15pm at the Oxford Ice Rink. Hurry - we'd love to have everyone there, but
spots are limited. We'll let you know via a confirmation email if you've successfully got a place at the rink with us.
When: 6-7:15pm, Monday 11th May
Where: Oxford Ice Rink, Oxpens Rd, Oxford OX1 1RX
Sign up here:
https://forms.gle/sNWtHYTnnLbpk55C7
Click "Going" here:
https://discord.com/events/493582175506268191/1501042317904187502
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<title>Web Development Talk</title>
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<html><title>Web Development Talk</title>
<body> Cool, you know a bit of HTML/CSS/JS/whatnot, what now?
On Wednesday from 5pm, you can come on down to the
LTB to learn more about the journey of web development in a talk!
Given how poorly formatted this html joke is, I probably need this @_@
</body></html>
When: 5 - 6pm, Wednesday 13th May
Where: Bill Roscoe Lecture Theatre, Department of Computer Science 7 Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3QG
Click "Going" here: https://discord.com/events/493582175506268191/1501045044327747865
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Yippee, a better programming lecture / practical session*! This
Saturday, we'll be having our weekly Learn-To-Code session on Automation Scripting in the Seminar Room 051 from 5:30pm! If you want to learn more about how to make your life easier (i.e. turn a 20 minute repetitive task into
a 6 hour automating session); or if you like Factorio, don't miss this event (and the upcoming LTC sessions)!
*hopefully, we are watching you, LTC Officers (jk no pressure, i know you guys will do well)
When: 5:30-6:30pm, Saturday 16th May
Where: Seminar Room 051, Department of Computer Science 7 Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3QG
Click "Going" here: https://discord.com/events/493582175506268191/1501046245546918018
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Saturday Night Social: Movie Night
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Popcorn buckets, soda cups, snacks, pizza, and the snuggly embrace of the favourite sleeping spot of the LTA chairs* - it's
movie night!
Join us on Saturday from 7pm to enjoy a movie and take your minds off the looming exams! There will be the usual roster of snacks, pizza, and social after the movie, so stick around (or go revise, it's up to you)!
*CompSoc does not explicitly encourage treating 9/10am lectures as extra sleep sessions
When: 7-9pm, Saturday 16th May
Where: Undergraduate Social Area, Department of Computer Science 7 Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3QG
Click "Going" here:
https://discord.com/events/493582175506268191/1501046419233181787
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does anyone actually read this far? good job for checking out what our collaborating societies / sponsors are saying
perhaps i can hide little memes / easter eggs here (this may become relevant in later events idk) to encourage people to check this section out >:3
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Make sure to join OxWoCS (Oxford Women in CS), a society we're working closely with, if you identify as a woman or woman-adjacent person in CS! They have a host of wonderful events on,
including talks, panels and socials. Computer Science is unfortunately a subject with one of the biggest gender gaps in Oxford and worldwide, and addressing this is at the core of OxWoCS.
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