Dear all, Upon inheriting the Looking Glass from our predecessors, we identified a number of key issues. Firstly, there were simply not enough articles being published, due both to a lack of submissions from the school community and limited responsiveness from the previous Academic Team. Secondly, the Looking Glass had not been advertised or explained effectively enough to the wider school community. As a result, we plan to implement a more consistent and engaging stream of articles on the Looking Glass. As part of this initiative, we are looking to recruit a select group of keen writers from across the lower school who would be willing to produce one high-quality piece of writing, discussion, or media each month for publication on the Looking Glass. We believe this will be hugely beneficial both to the school community, which will gain access to a wider range of opinions and viewpoints, and to prospective writers, who will be able to reference their experience contributing to the Look...
Since the announcement of the cancellation of the GCSE and A Level examinations, Year 11 and 13 students have been faced with plenty of time on their hands. Having spent mine so far pursuing an online machine learning course [1] at the suggestion of Dr Hedges, I thought it might be interesting to apply the result of these endeavours back to their causation, namely in explaining a possible method for exam grade generation. Before proceeding, I’d like to point out that this is not based on any evidence other than my own thought experiment, and so should be treated as such. To begin with, what is machine learning and why does it apply to this problem? Well machine learning is the science of getting computers to perform tasks without being explicitly programmed, specifically those involving data and predictions. For example, we might train a machine learning algorithm to predict some result, e.g. banana prices, based on some input data such as supply, demand and quality. In our case...