Notices tagged with pi
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Tantek ()'s status on Tuesday, 10-Nov-2026 15:31:00 EST 
Tantek
π Happy International Pi Day! (the 314th day of the year)
🥧 This morning I celebrated with an apple hand pie, purchased from the newest Tartine Bakery in Mill Valley (https://tartinebakery.com/san-francisco/mill-valley) last Saturday. Through trial and error I learned that Reheat at 325F (default) for 4 minutes worked best to heat the filling enough to be very warm, but not hot enough to burn your mouth (settings for a Breville mini oven / “air fryer”).
After several years of celebrating today as “ordinal pi day”, derived from the “ordinal date” standardized by ISO 8601 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Ordinal_dates), I decided it merited elevation to International Pi Day, since ordinal dates are an international standard, and counting days works the same worldwide.
As noted in previous years, celebrating pi day on March 14th is US-centric, because more countries (people) write their dates day/month instead of the US month/day convention (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country#Usage_map). March 14th is a US National Pi day at best.
It’s about time we declared the only standardized nth day of the year as our method for declaring international number-related holidays.
The list so far of such international nth day of the year holidays:
* 088: World Piano Day
* 256: 8-Bit Day (https://tantek.com/2026/256/t1)
* 314: International Pi Day (or World Pi Day if you prefer)
Previously:
* https://tantek.com/2025/314/t1/happy-ordinal-pi-day
#piDay #internationalPiDay #worldPiDay #actualPiDay #ordinalDate #ordinalDates #ISO8601 #ISOdate #standards #ordinal #pi -
Zed Ex Fuuma (fuuko)'s status on Saturday, 30-Jun-2018 10:44:35 EDT 
Zed Ex Fuuma
Good morning #SDF, #fediverse and #phloggers! I ordered another Raspberry #pi since I felt my older one just wasn't cutting it anymore. I'll put a #gopher server and #BBS on the new one coming.
I'm thinking of experimenting with #arduino, so I wanna know, what kind of things can you do with a arduino and a pi together? Have you peeps done anything cool lately with your pis and arduinos?
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Zed Ex Fuuma (fuuko)'s status on Thursday, 17-May-2018 10:47:13 EDT
Zed Ex Fuuma
I feel like general #computing education has kinda been squandered the last few decades. It really took off during the Home Computing Revolution, and then started to wane after that. I'm glad that there are initiatives to teach kids how to code and work with hardware like the Raspberry #Pi though. I just wish the Raspberry Pi was completely open, cuz last time I read that the GPU was closed source. What are y'alls thoughts on computer education?
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