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  1. Mar 2023
    1. The Mountains of Pi

      Not sure of the truth of the story either @Josh, but thanks for the trip down memory lane. My math teacher gave me that article when I was in the 12th grade because he knew I had been variously killing time in his math classes since 9th grade memorizing the first 8,000 digits of pi and reading for fun.

  2. Feb 2023
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  5. Jun 2021
  6. May 2021
    1. You might even consider a Raspberry Pi to power a lightweight media center or server. These ARM-based systems aren’t as powerful, but they’re inexpensive, customizable, and use a very small amount of power.
  7. Dec 2020
    1. My next move will be to further lower my visibility to 3rd party tracking with a combination of pi-hole caching DNS blocker and wireguard VPN .
  8. Sep 2020
  9. Mar 2020
    1. Resource OverviewBasic OverviewContactsCategory and FormKeywordsThematic KeywordsLocation KeywordsTemporal KeywordsOther KeywordsArbitrary KeywordsTaxonomic InformationAdd TaxaSpatial and Temporal ExtentSpatial BoundsTime Period(s)Vertical ExtentResource ContentData Table(s)Data Dictionary InfoExternal Data DictionaryMethodsResource LineageProcess StepsSource DataData Quality ReportsStatus and DistributionStatus and MaintenancePublication Date and Other DatesDistribution OptionsIdentifiersConstraintsSpecific Resource UsesAdditional FieldsOnline ResourcesRelated ResourcesGraphic SummarySupplemental InfoSpatial RepresentationReference System InfoMetadata Info Methods

      This part needs input from the PI! How do we want to track down the source data and encourage those to be published somewhere?

  10. Apr 2018
    1. Leonhard Euler, who adopted it in 1737

      Actually, he first used π in 1727, and it meant 6.28.., not 3.14..

  11. Feb 2016
  12. Jan 2016
    1. Some people are porting Apple's Swift programming language to the Raspberry Pi. At the time of this post in December 2015, they had the compiler running on RPi 2 with Ubuntu Linux. They did not yet have the Foundation libraries, the Swift Package Manager, or a version for RPi 1, and it was not certain whether it would run on Raspbian Linux.