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Long time no serious post, so here's something about ante-natal classes.
( Heteronormativity, sexism and more sexism, oh my ... )

I nearly made a mathematician's head explode yesterday. We were idly talking about computing the digits of pi*, and different algorithms for doing it, and so on, and the mathematician mentioned that computing pi to silly numbers of decimal places was often used as a way of quality-checking computer hardware. To tease him I asked, "But what ( Read more... )

It's fab weather! I love it. I really like it when it's warm and sunny ( Read more... )