Some links about pi for Pi Day
A celebration of transcendental numeration, no matter how you slice it.
The einstein tile: a never-repeating pattern made from a 13-sided shape
Genius, honestly.
Which is your favourite variable naming conventions?
Not quite an open and shut case.
What is frisson?
A fancy word for chills.
TIL: Pakistan is home to more than 7,000 known glaciers, and therefore has more glacial ice than any other country (excluding the polar regions).
Johannes Max Brückner was a German geometer, best known for his amazing collection of polyhedral models which you can read in his book, Vielecke und Vielflache, Theorie und Geschichte (via Present & Correct, Colossal, and Sidebar)
Casimir Funk (born Kazimierz Funk) was a Polish biochemist best known for formulating the idea of vitamins and Google has honoured his 140th birthday with a Google Doodle today.
The Banff Wildlife Crossings Project
A great way to save some animals.
From Space.com: Humanity is slowly losing access to the night sky, and astronomers have invented a new term to describe the pain associated with this loss: ‘noctalgia,’ meaning ‘night grief.’
Stefan Baack on 'Common Crawl’s Impact on Generative AI'
‘Often it is claimed that Common Crawl contains the entire web, but that’s absolutely not true. Based on what I know about how many URLs exist, it’s very, very small.’