Better Informatics - 4th year

Exams | official list

General Edit on GitHub

• Facebook Group Chat
• Year 4 Google Drive
• mailing list archives - ug4-students
• Useful YouTube channel for MLPR / PMR / IT / IAML / DME

Honours Project | drps, info None exam Edit on GitHub

• You can manage citations with JabRef or Zotero
• Use DBLP to generate .bib citations over Google Scholar
• Write your Intro, Conclusion and Abstract last — your project might change by the time you’ve written everything else.
  • Abstract: The advertisement for your paper. You want to start with a very general scope and narrow down to specifics very quickly. Don’t use jargon. Do flex your results.
  • Introduction: Similar in that you want to be general, but you have more space. You need to talk about the Motivation, Objective, Contribution and Organisation.
  • Conclusion: An overview of the project and your results. You’ll want to have “Critical evaluation of own work” in here and also discuss how the project has helped you (the latter isn’t in the marking scheme however was advised to include this).
• Ask your supervisor if you can use “I” and what tense to use. My supervisor banned “I” and mandated past tense, YMMV. You probably want to avoid 2nd person (you) and use “one” instead.
• Find some linter or other tool to check the LaTeX you have written before submission. There are a bunch of small things you can do to make things render nicely: for example, ``quote’’ instead of “quote”, --- instead of —, etc.
• You can use \autoref{chapter-introduction} which will expand to Chapter \ref{chapter-introduction}
• If you are writing a MInf2 thesis, refer to the first part as “Part One”
• Outstanding undergraduate projects - Recent dissertations which have scored 80% and above.
• A Template-based Model for Automatic Image Description (2014), feedback, with Mirella Lapata (83%)
• WILDEBEAST: A webservice for real time characterisation of infectious disease epidemics, supervised by Andrew Rambaut (80%)

Binding

You do not need to get your thesis bound for submission. However you may want a nice printed copy of your thesis as a record of your hard work or it makes a nice gift for your parents. The University Printing Services will hardback bind your thesis with gold foil lettering on the spine for £19 + 0.05(# b&w pages) + 0.4(# colour pages).

Formatting your thesis for binding:

• If you want two sided printing, add twoside to your options
• The default top margin is 2cm and the bottom is 4cm, I think it looks nicer with \geometry{a4paper,left=4cm,top=2.5cm,right=2.5cm,bottom=3cm,twoside} which is set in infthesis.cls
• Use a linter like https://www.dainiak.com/latexcheck/ to make sure you’re doing LaTeX good

If you have done a two-part MInf, it is preferable to have both parts of your MInf in the same book. The best way to do this is to duplicate one of your parts and copy the Introduction to your Conclusion of the other one into it. You will most likely need to fix a bunch of errors with bibliography entries needing to be copied over or adding \usepackage statements. Then you can add \part{Title of Part 1} and \part{Title of Part 2} before each respective part so that the table of contents is formatted properly. You will then need to think of a new title for the project as a whole for the \title{} and merge the abstracts and acknowledgement sections.

• For two-part MInf, override the submityear with the years that you did the project in infthesis.cls like so \gdef\@submityear{2020 -- 2022}

ADBS | drps, info, papers April/May exam Edit on GitHub

• Official past exams and solutions by Samuel G. (up to 2010)
• ADBS-2013-solutions
• ADBS-2012-solutions
• ADBS-2011-solutions

AFDS | drps, info, papers April/May exam Edit on GitHub

• The Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)

AGTA | drps, info, papers April/May exam Edit on GitHub

• 2005

AV Edit on GitHub

• May 2010 Answers
• May 2011 Solutions (in progress)
• May 2012 Solutions (in progress)
• May 2013 Solutions (in progress)
• May 2014 Solutions (in progress)
• All 2014 Slides in one pdf (in roughly the right order)
• Short Question Answers

CAV Edit on GitHub

• May 2014
• May 2013
• May 2012
• May 2011
• May 2010

CG - Computer Graphics Edit on GitHub

• Build a ray tracer from scratch (scratchapixel.com)

CN Edit on GitHub

• Notes
• May 2012
• May 2011
• May 2010
• May 2009

COPT Edit on GitHub

• 2014 exam
• 2012 exam
• 2011 exam
• Stan’s scanned notes. And some revision notes (mostly the lectures slides in word form).
• Outline of lecture slides (topics)
• Denali. OSE. Learning to schedule. LRPD.

DS | drps, info, papers December exam Edit on GitHub

May 2014, May 2013, May 2012 April 2011

Aggregated solutions to questions from 2009-2012 combined here

We’ve started some notes on the course content, they can be found here.

Tree mapping to the slides here.

EXC - Extreme Computing Edit on GitHub

• All Lecture Slides in one PDF (2012/2013), (2014/2015)
• Exam/Solutions
  • May ‘16 & ‘17,
  • may 2013,
  • may 2012,
  • april 2011
• Good page on trap and emulate » Cached Copy with Comments Enabled
• Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams: paper, slides
• Revision notes - Started by Stefan Adamov
• Revision Notes - Mark Nemec on Github
• Docker + Pig setup, this allows to easily execute examples from Tutorials point

• 2021 Revision Notes

• Additional Resources:
  • MIT’s Distributed Systems Course - Has good notes & labs on GFS, MapReduce, etc.

HCI - Human Computer Interaction | drps, info None exam Edit on GitHub

• Cheat Sheet (In Progress)
• Bollocks Index (In Progress)
• HCI Reading notes

IAR Edit on GitHub

May 2013, May 2012, May 2011, May 2010

Revision notes 2014 - collective effort

Revision notes

IMC - Introduction to Modern Cryptography | drps, info, papers April/May exam Edit on GitHub

• IMC Past Papers

MLP - Machine Learning Practical | drps, info None exam Edit on GitHub

• Standford course on similar topics
• MLP CW2 2019-20 Marking Rubric

MLPR | drps, info, papers December exam Edit on GitHub

• Course resources
  • Course website
  • Video content
• Exams
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2009

MT Edit on GitHub

• May 2013 Please contribute :)
• May 2012 (work in progress - contributions needed!)
• May 2011 (work in progress - contributions needed!)
• May 2010 (work in progress - contributions needed!)
• April 2009 (work in progress - contributions needed!)

PA Edit on GitHub

• PA Past Papers
• PA Notes

PM Edit on GitHub

May 2014, May 2013, May 2012, May 2011, May 2010

PPLS | drps, info, papers April/May exam Edit on GitHub

• Some notes on the content, mainly things that are good to be memorised.
• May 2014
• May 2013
• May 2012
• May 2011
• May 2010

RC Edit on GitHub

• Some notes on content <– formulas, algorithms, some proofs
• May 2013

SAPM Edit on GitHub

• What-you-need-to-know-for-the-exam course summary slides.
• May 2014
• May 2013
• May 2012
• May 2011
• May 2010
• Revision notes by Ben Shaw

SP - Secure Programming | drps, info, papers December exam Edit on GitHub

• Made up mock questions for lack of past papers in 2014 here
• Review questions from lectures
• Format string exploits/attack owasp, introduction

Security Engineering Edit on GitHub

New course in 2022

TTDS - Text Technologies in Data Science | drps, info, papers April/May exam Edit on GitHub

Called Text Technologies (TTS) until 2015

Crowdsourced solutions

There are some “hidden” formulas about LSH error probabilities in the lectures.

An overall studyguide for TTS 2013-2014: all lecture slides summarized added things from notabene, said in lecture, and just figured out by Sophia.

Topic history

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