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» Boredom and Disjointment

Posted on 10th May 2008

Friday
I had one of those moments during the exam yesterday. I sat down and realised my bladder may not last the two hours – quenching thirst can be counter-productive on occasion. Fortunately my bladder did not explode. Unfortunately, worse was to come. As soon as the exam started and I read the first question, my mind went blank – a total pure white. The question was one of those compare and contrast two differing concepts but I could not remember a single thing about one of the concepts. Anyway, after muddling through the first question by continuing to refer to only one of the concepts, I was more successful for the remainder of the paper.

On completion of the third of the required questions, I remembered my initial blanking and thought I’d read through the question again – no luck, my mind still drew a blank. At that point, I considered whether this was due to the pressures of the exam or whether I had really failed to revise that topic.

Oh well… two left

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» Feasibility Condition

Posted on 8th May 2008

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The FP states when the sender may use the message

c.f. Rational Effect and KQML pre-condition, final-condition

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» Techniques

Posted on 7th May 2008

After a long days work of revision, I thought I’d share my wonderful revision techniques with you:

1. Use colour for visual stimulation:
Revision Notes

I suggest different colours to emphasise different points. Another technique is layering so once the initial notes have been made, add more scribbles to highlight key points. In my case, I just write the key points with a big red highlighter pen.

2. Cue cards/post-its also help:
Post-It

I suppose it helps if the cue cards were for the relevant module.

3: Regular breaks prevent brain fatigue, so I take a look outside:
Westminster

It’s amazing how interesting the London Eye is. I also saw 2 Chinooks, 3 RAF fighter jets, possibly Typhoons, a few regular helicopters, and private jets on their approach to City airport, a few birds and a man out that window today. The man was a surprise – not being on the ground floor it isn’t everyday that people walk by your window. There is a walled ledge though – design feature or maintenance practicality?

4. Drink plenty of fluids, preferably non-alcoholic.

5. Sleep, which is what I’ll be doing soon ^^

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» Blocking Protocol

Posted on 7th May 2008

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Added “; the_time(‘jS F Y’); echo “”;?>
Protocol is blocking if it admits execution in which a correct participant cannot decide.

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» Pareto Optimal

Posted on 12th April 2008

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∃ no other allocation s.t.

  • SWu(All) > SWu(Allf)
  • ui(All(i)) ≥ ui(Allf)) ∀ i ∈ A

An allocation of resources such that any movement of a resource would make at least one individual worse off.

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» Multi-Week View

Posted on 10th April 2008

Having switched to the Calendar view in Thunderbird for the first time this week, I realised that the multi-week view now menacingly shows the final week of April. You all know what that means? There’s less than 3 weeks left – the first exam is looming.

I know I said I did not like to talk about this stuff at all but my life is, and will be for the next month, consumed by it so I don’t really have much else to talk about. Also, I have been known to be slightly hypercritical! Skip to after the break if you want to read about other stuff ^^

Student Life

So, I originally intended to only have two phases in my revision. The first phase being just a quick glance through everything to refresh my memory as to what I needed to learn, and the second phase being to actually learn it. Phase two has ended up becoming the “refresh”as the first phase contained a lot of stuff I hadn’t seen before!

I was thinking of doing a revision blog post a day on a random topic that I’d looked at during the day. I have no idea what I’d write about but maybe it’ll be a nice way to recap what I “learnt”. Actually, it probably won’t be helpful at all…

Anyway, so, despite the extensive hours I’ve put in so far I have actually yet to learn anything at all. Well, apart from what every student learns at this stage – there’s a Himalayan mountain range of stuff to learn and I’ve only worn a t-shirt.

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