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Enterprise architect, DevOps fool, vintage computing nerd. Amateur photog’, too.

Have a lousy Monday…

#woodlouse #crustacean #macro  #wildlife #nature #naturephotography #naturfotografie #natur #fotografie #fotografía #fotografi #foto #fotograf #photography #sonyalpha #sonya7riv #wildlifephotography

Macro photo of a wood louse

Tetragnatha

#spider #arachnid #macro  #wildlife #nature #naturephotography #naturfotografie #natur #fotografie #fotografía #fotografi #foto #fotograf #photography #sonyalpha #sonya7riv #wildlifephotography

Slender spider in its web

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Cartoon by Chris Slane @SlaneCartoons
https://www.slanecartoon.com/

#Libraries #bookstadon #books #librarians

Cartoon of a library patron staring at a tall and wide bookshelf with the label GEOLOGY on top of it. The shelves are askew. They are divided, near one side, by a diagonal line going from the top to the bottom of the bookshelf. The books on the shelves are jumbled. The shelf looks like a faultline in rocks on the side of a cliff.

There are two comments included:
The first commenter writes: On the one hand, i’m amused at the joke. On the other hand, I’'m a librarian and this shelving is horrifying.
Another commenter responds: Well, no shelving system is without fault.

@hisdeedsaredust Just to sanity test myself (since the program's gone) this is indeed what you get if your run 1000 iterators.

>>> def leibniz(n):
... t_sum = 0
... for i in range(n):
... term = (-1) ** i /(2*i+1)
... t_sum = t_sum + term
... return t_sum * 4
...
>>> terms=1000
>>> print("Pi = ", leibniz(terms))
Pi = 3.140592653839794

@hisdeedsaredust The algorithm is an iterative one. It adds and subtracts repeatly. Each iteration approximates more and more digits. I think this was snapshotted after like 10 or 100 operations... something like that. The current display has 3.14 accurately, but the third place hasn't settled yet.

What to do on a quiet spring evening? Learn some Sharp PC-1201 coding of course! Here's the Leibniz Pi algorithm. Seems accurate when comparing iteration output to a Python equivalent. Not too fast of course!

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #calculators

Program listing for Leibniz Pi formula

Sharp PC-1201 programmable calculator, which called itself a pocket computer.

Little Miss Muffet buggered off
(think this one is golden orb)

#spider #arachnid #macro  #wildlife #nature #naturephotography #naturfotografie #natur #fotografie #fotografía #fotografi #foto #fotograf #photography #sonyalpha #sonya7riv #wildlifephotography

Golden orb spider on a leaf

Golden orb spider on a leaf

Snail with hair. Apparently a thing. Must get out more. And yeah, just called a hairy snail.

#snail #hairysnail #wildlife #nature #naturephotography #naturfotografie #natur #fotografie #fotografía #fotografi #foto #fotograf #photography #sonyalpha #sonya7riv #sigma105macro #wildlifephotography #london

Tiny tiny snail with a hair shell

Another image of a tiny tiny snail

Silent Sunday Tendrils

#blackandwhite #bandw #web #macro   #nature #naturephotography #naturfotografie #natur #fotografie #fotografía #fotografi #foto #fotograf #photography #sonyalpha #fern #sonya7riv #sigma105macro #london #silentsunday

Unfurling fronds of a fen create kind of figure

Unfurling fronds of a fern like curly hair

Male Nigma Puella

#spider #arachnid #macro  #wildlife #nature #naturephotography #naturfotografie #natur #fotografie #fotografía #fotografi #foto #fotograf #photography #sonyalpha #sonya7riv #wildlifephotography #nigma

Browsing for dinner
(Avocet)

#birds #birdsofmastodon #BirdsOfFediverse #avocet  #wildlife #nature #naturephotography #naturfotografie #natur #fotografie #fotografía #fotografi #foto #fotograf #photography #sonyalpha #sonya7riv #sony200600 #wildlifephotography #video

English Channel silent Sunday

#silentsunday #photography #lumixgx9 #winchelsea #rye #landscapephotography #landscape

Weather piers ruins on a misty English Channel coast between Winchelsea and Rye Harbour.

Peering out from the shadows.

#bug #insect #macro  #wildlife #nature #naturephotography #naturfotografie #natur #fotografie #fotografía #fotografi #foto #fotograf #photography #sonyalpha #sonya7riv #wildlifephotography

Head nodding to...

https://spectralunion.bandcamp.com/track/ember

Recommended 👍 from Spectral Union

#bandcamp #BandcampFriday #music #edm #techno #deeptechno #melodictecho #spectralunion

Peek-a-boo

#bug #insect #macro  #wildlife #nature #naturephotography #naturfotografie #natur #fotografie #fotografía #fotografi #foto #fotograf #photography #sonyalpha #sonya7riv #wildlifephotography

Currently soothing my savage soul:

https://gisellaengel.bandcamp.com/track/absence

Recommend from Gisella Engel

#bandcamp #music #edm #techno #gisellaenge

Luck be a Lady

#ladybug #ladybird #insect #macro  #wildlife #nature #naturephotography #naturfotografie #natur #fotografie #fotografía #fotografi #foto #fotograf #photography #sonyalpha #sonya7riv #wildlifephotography

Ladybug close up.

Comb-footed Spider

#spider #arachnid #macro  #wildlife #nature #naturephotography #naturfotografie #natur #fotografie #fotografía #fotografi #foto #fotograf #photography #sonyalpha #sonya7riv #wildlifephotography

Tiny Spider among the plant fluff.

Tiny Spider among the plant fluff.

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