I love my #raspberrypi army (1xPi1, 1xPi2, 2xPi3, 1xPi4, all running different things), but on a drunken whim I ended up sniping a bare bone Intel nuc5i5ryh for $20 and threw in ram/HDD i had sitting around and that thing is a beast
threw #proxmox on it and have basically consolidated the functions of all those #Pi boxes into one VM with processing and memory to spare
I’m at a thing where I’m meeting a gazillion queer and trans #AAPI elders who were here when we had no visibility at all. One of them, a 70 yo Filipina queer woman said, ‘one of the newscasters commented on live TV that even the Asians are marching’ (at the March on Washington)
All very inspiring, but even more inspiring is seeing so many ways to just.. be. I never saw what it might be to be an older queer person. Here I see them all the time. I wrote about this:
The #AAPI community often forgets the #PI. Today Vince Cristomo, the first Chamorro to come out publicly as gay and HIV+, and the current director of aging services at SF AIDS Foundation, is getting the George Choy Award of Recognition today. The award is given by the GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance
I think I’ll spend this afternoon working on FORTH and playing with PICO-8 a bit. I’d really like to have Picotron on a Raspberry Pi, however. Hm. Maybe I should write an OS…
Wait a minute…
What if you converted every three digits of Pi to a 10-bit number, concatenated them and interpreted them as #ascii (or something like #base64
That means that Pi is hiding the U.S.' nuclear launch codes. The truth behind the JFK assassination, the cure to cancer…
GUYS... we were learning #Borges' #LibraryOfBabylon in middle school as #Pi! It was all hiding under our noses all along!
The number pi, which is celebrated with its own day on 14 March, has inspired “Pilish” – a fiendishly challenging form of writing. There’s even a Pilish novel. Give it a go yourself, it can be strangely addictive...
The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckmann holds up this mirror, giving the background of the times when pi made progress — and also when it did not, because science was being stifled by militarism or religious fanaticism.
#FunFact for today's #PiDay: 37 decimal places of #Pi (38, including the "3") are enough to calculate the known universe down to the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
All the additional ~62.8 trillion digits are "just theoretical" ;-)
(It’s an oldie but a goodie, so I’m sure many of you have heard it before)
Suppose you have a rope wrapped tightly around Earth’s circumference (see figure), then you raise the rope +1 meter everywhere along the circumference. How much extra rope would you need?
Now, suppose you did the same thing with Jupiter?
Earth’s radius is 6,378 km. Jupiter’s radius is 71,492 km. How much more extra rope does Jupiter need?
To celebrate, let's look back at this 127-year-old bill that was passed in the Indiana House of Representatives which attempted to legislate a wildly incorrect solution to the squaring a circle problem and thereby legalize an incorrect value of π.
"The Greek letter appears on p. 243 [of William Jones's 1706 work Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseo] in the phrase "½ Periphery (π)", calculated for a circle with radius one."
"Why that letter? It’s the first Greek letter in the words “periphery” and “perimeter,” and pi is the ratio of a circle’s periphery — or circumference — to its diameter."