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  1. brent012

    Coronavirus/Covid-19 Discussion Thread

    Look under "What are the symptoms of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome?" here: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/thrombosis-with-thrombocytopenia-syndrome-tts Apparently they are quite severe (e.g. very bad and persistent headache), and start 4-42 days after vaccination. If you mean, if...
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    Lockdown thread

    The current COVID vaccines aren't supposed to provide sterilising immunity and weren't approved on that basis, just on their ability to stop serious infection and fatalities. Despite that, the mRNA vaccines in particular seem to have decent efficacy for preventing symptomatic/asymtopmatic cases.
  3. brent012

    Coronavirus/Covid-19 Discussion Thread

    I don't think it's a China problem. As Blit has mentioned, SinoVac and the other Chinese vaccines just haven't had very high efficacy. On the other hand, some other countries which don't have the China stigma have vaccines which have mostly been passed over by the west despite having promising...
  4. brent012

    Coronavirus/Covid-19 Discussion Thread

    Interesting, did you actually get a Pfizer booking and not get it? Officially the site is meant to block you from getting to the registration page if you aren't eligible, but I know people have bypassed that (sometimes by accident). I got AZ a few days ago too, had a headache + fever/tiredness...
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    Coronavirus/Covid-19 Discussion Thread

    Hopefully the bulk of it goes to retail workers, fast food workers, tradies, warehouse workers, truck drivers etc. that cant work from home. I don't think allocating by LGA alone is the way to go about it. I bet this won't be the last deal like this though.
  6. brent012

    Coronavirus/Covid-19 Discussion Thread

    FWIW, Novavax isn't expected to arrive until next year, long after the state government hopes to reduce restrictions. That's also not factoring in booking delays, the 3 week gap and that it takes time after being vaccinated for the vaccines to become effective.
  7. brent012

    Coronavirus/Covid-19 Discussion Thread

    Yeah, they are both mRNA vaccines. I believe Moderna has a much higher dosage of vaccine though (100mcg vs 30mcg), so more people report side effects but it might have a higher efficacy. Note that "side effects" is generally feeling lethargic or sore, nothing too bad usually.
  8. brent012

    Coronavirus/Covid-19 Discussion Thread

    Pfizer for the majority of people aged between 18-29 is like 6+ weeks off at the current rate. Bookings for 30-39 is meant to be opening up at the end of the month. I also wouldn't be surprised if 18-29 get access to Moderna instead at that point given that Pfizer is the only approved vaccine...
  9. brent012

    UNSW or UTS Engineering?

    Yeah, understood, i'm just pointing out that many year 12 students put a lot of merit in those league tables, but they can be misleading.
  10. brent012

    UNSW or UTS Engineering?

    Your preferences are fine, UNSW/USYD/UTS are all pretty good for engineering. But if UNSW is your top pick, and think that you would consider transferring if you missed out, I would prioritise USyd over UTS for your second option. You'll have less trouble with credit recognition going between...
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    Coronavirus/Covid-19 Discussion Thread

    These are Dr Chris Billington's graphs that get posted on reddit. You can find the graphs and methodology here: https://chrisbillington.net/COVID_NSW.html
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    UNSW or UTS?

    Not true, UTS offer 2 security related majors and multiple data/analysis related majors in addition to "Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics".
  13. brent012

    Vectors and tex

    Yeah, I believe codecogs supports a pretty limited form of basic latex math commands so I wouldn't be surprised if certain features like this don't work here. There are alternatives to codecogs like MathJax and KaTeX, but I suspect the support will still be pretty basic. We've evaluated MathJax...
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    How legitimate is this report on the "worst" degrees?

    "Big Data" is a bit of a buzzword rather than a degree or profession, courses or roles in that area would be more along the lines of "data scientist", "business intelligence", "machine learning engineer" and possibly even "statistician". I would bundle some of those more in with engineering and...
  15. brent012

    Coronavirus/Covid-19 Discussion Thread

    Not sure it was really unanticipated? Basically every vaccine i've ever had they always ask first if you have allergies or had adverse reactions to previous vaccines. I heard the people affected in the UK all carried epipens, so must have had relatively serious allergies.
  16. brent012

    Favourite item of clothing

    Yeah, it sucks. Flippers and speculators have made it worse over the last 10-20 years for the second hand market. Iirc a bit over 10 years ago, you could even get used earlier 4 or 5 digit subs etc. for a decent amount less than a new one.
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    Favourite item of clothing

    This is pretty common with luxury goods, Economics Explained explained did a video on it. It's the same with Rolex and Patek Philippe watches. According to the video, the manufacturers like to keep stock scarce so even older models retain their resale value and it's not possible to enter the...
  18. brent012

    HSC Standard Mathematics Predictions / Thoughts

    The point of that email shown in this thread would be that if an exam is genuinely dificult and found challenging by most of the cohort, the scaling process will accomodate that. Not that any special scaling or aligning is being performed.
  19. brent012

    HSC Legal Studies Predictions / Thoughts

    If there's any exams you want to predict, discuss etc. and there's no threads, go ahead.
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    Bachelor of Commerce/ bachelor of law (hard or not hard in UNI?)

    Personally, I think uni and the HSC are a very different kind of dificult. One or the other might suit different people better. There's definitely less spoonfeeding, resources and past papers etc. around for uni and not all subjects work the same way as each other or are as formulaic as the...
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