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Nov 2023
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3.2 - That’s Not What A UFO Looks Like

Festival of the Spoken Nerd
About this episode

Against all odds, Series 3 continues with a complicated automotive engineer from Helen, a complicated visual processing system from Steve, and a complicated restaurant triangulation problem from Matt:


- Helen's bit (00:55)

- Steve's bit (22:35)

- Matt's bit (41:45)


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