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In my (slow) walk to Mordor I've reached the point where Sam & Frodo are descending the cliffs in Emyn Muil and the rope unties itself. It's nice when I reach memorable bits.
Today (15 mintues left) is Ada Lovelace Day and I FINALLY got to Ada Lovelace Day Live this year. I mean I got there with about 2 mintues to spare but that's still in time.
There were 7 speakers all hosted by the always wonderful Helen Arney and it was such a wonderful, joyous mix. We learned about deep sea creatures and a universal influenza vaccine and watched that Mentos & Coke experiment taken to another level plus some interesting fluid dynamics with the help of paper plans. We also had the eternal questions "could Jurassic Park be real" (spoiler: NO) and then we learned how deep learning can allow a computer to "recognise beauty". What else?OH Statistics <3 I do love a bit of statistics and we heard about the gender paygap and how the more chocolate your country eats the more likely you are to win a Nobel Prize (no but really).
So that was fun. And more of you should come next year, or look for an event nearer to you because they had 170 events in 16 countries this year and are still growing.
Today has basically been work (with my almost entirely female team) then Rainbows (the girls made mascots... several of which were giraffes for no reason I could really understand) and then Ada Lovelace Day Live. I am feeling very #ThisGirlCan right now.
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