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Fungal Fantasy (Flash)

Posted by Scott Roberts on June 27, 2009 at 11:30am — 7 Comments

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Stevo aka Dr Katata Fish commented on Daniel Livingstone's event 'Revision Day - Incorporating CV Prep For Job Seekers!'

I agree i think we both should have stayed but ah well. At least we have the books and past papers to revise with until the 21st xD

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Mathy might attend Daniel Livingstone's event

Revision Day - Incorporating CV Prep For Job Seekers! at D Block - to be confirmed - Paisley Campus

July 21, 2009 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm

Revision and social event - take two With exam papers in hand - this time it's work! ;-) IPM (2nd Year) and Comp Systems (1st Year) appear to be the two main classes that have you stumped. Plus recent graduates who might need some help with their...

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Internship vacancy at Denki

forwarded: Just a quick email to draw your attention to an opportunity at Denki which might be of interest to your students: http://www.denki.co.uk/2009/07/09/wanted-part-time-quarrel-test-interns/ If you have any questions feel free to drop me a...

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Stevo aka Dr Katata Fish, Phil Farquharson, Ross Forshaw and 2 other members are attending Daniel Livingstone's event

Revision Day - Incorporating CV Prep For Job Seekers! at D Block - to be confirmed - Paisley Campus

July 21, 2009 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm

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Alexander Logue commented on Alexander Logue's photo 'Akira'

The first anime I can ever recall watching. I was still watching Sesame Street and Sooty at the time so let's just say it was a life changing experience.

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J commented on Daniel Livingstone's event 'Revision Day - Incorporating CV Prep For Job Seekers!'

Thanks for that Daniel. I felt I should have stayed yesterday, but I've been looking over the papers today. I'll try get a few more people for Comp Systems to attend.

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Daniel Livingstone commented on Scott Roberts's blog post 'Fungal Fantasy (Flash)'

-310! I got about -115 or something like that Would be nice if the boss dies when he got to zero health :-) Shaun Milne who has an account here on wosgamers made a Flash MMO demo with similar combat mechanics (and an artist friend!) - the game is...

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Phil Farquharson commented on Daniel Livingstone's event 'Revision Day - Incorporating CV Prep For Job Seekers!'

Anyone able to scan and upload? would be grateful. Wish I could have made it along yesturday.

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Jon Robertson commented on Daniel Livingstone's event 'Revision Day - Incorporating CV Prep For Job Seekers!'

yeah. we gt copies yesterday

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Phil Farquharson commented on Daniel Livingstone's event 'Revision Day - Incorporating CV Prep For Job Seekers!'

Definately attending, will we be allowed to go away with the IPM exam paper? would be useful, cheers.

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Daniel Livingstone commented on Daniel Livingstone's event 'Revision Day - Incorporating CV Prep For Job Seekers!'

Hi Jamie, I actually have some additional tutorial sheets for helping with Comp Systems revision. I'll post the sheets online somewhere, and will have partial solutions along with me on the day.

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J commented on Daniel Livingstone's event 'Revision Day - Incorporating CV Prep For Job Seekers!'

I think I'll actually stay and do the work this time :p

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Peter Bloomfield replied to Scott Roberts's discussion 'Comp Systems'

Anything but pointless! :-P If you setup a good series of rules, then it's very simple to add facts (or 'knowledge' of a sort) into the system, and get some remarkably good results. Here's a simple example of a natural language processor based at...

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