Researchers at the University of Southampton have followed their instincts and built Iridis-Pi, a tiny 64-node cluster based on the Raspberry Pi's usual Debian Wheezy distribution and linked through Ethernet.
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They cited specific details, from format to font to details of name-calling and pi-reciting (which, of course, led to a long tangential discussion of pi and how to remember beyond the 46th digit, high or not).
It explores the idea of a low-fuel-use plane that uses open-rotor engines mounted on what is called a Pi-tail in the stern of the ship.
That the shipwrecked hero, a young Indian boy named Piscine Molitor Patel -- "Pi" for short -- didn't have another human soul to talk to for 200 days presented another significant challenge.
The slightly artificial quality that comes with this technology -- even wearing the spectacles puts a barrier between the movie and reality -- complements Pi's magical realist yarn, and Claudio Miranda's luminous, glossy, color-saturated cinematography gives the movie a picture book look.
Carrying a 4 x 4-inch form factor between a Raspberry Pi and mini-ITX board, it'll be equipped with a Core i3 Ivy Bridge processor, HD 4000 graphics, two SoDIMM sockets, an mSATA slot for an SSD drive, three USB ports, one HDMI port and a mini-PCI slot for wireless connectivity.
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"We've shrunk a 30-foot base station into a three-inch Raspberry Pi and created our own mobile phone network, " said PA's Frazer Bennett.
Well, just ask one of our techiest editors, who tried to learn a similar product, the Arduino -- and failed -- boards like the Pi are not cake.
Emma Mulqueeny of Young Rewired State, a non-profit that encourages kids to learn coding, says the Pi is well-timed because of other free resources that are just coming online.
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Lu and a previous pi-memorizing record holder, Hideaki Tomoyori, who recited 40, 000 digits of pi, have said they linked words or images to groups of two, three or four numbers.
Initial reports released by the UT Police Department on Wednesday indicated that the student's cousin -- a UT student and Pi Kappa Alpha member who says he wasn't at the house that night -- told investigators that the hospitalized student had used an alcohol enema.
But the most glaring problem facing any aspiring filmmaker would have to be Richard Parker, the full-grown 450-pound Bengal tiger who shares the lifeboat with Pi.
However, Pi-Sunyer notes, that the mental symptoms didn't show up on a survey to measure depression.
Pi-Sunyer also said that he hopes the drug won't be used for temporary weight loss.
Pi-Sunyer was one of the doctors who conducted trials of that drug.
Xavier Pi-Sunyer, the Columbia University heart expert who conducted the clinical trial, expects that the high dose would be the one doctors would use.
Pi-Sunyer is one of the biggest names in obesity drug research.
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Ang Lee's 3D epic Life of Pi - which went into the awards with nine nominations - picked up two awards for cinematography and special visual effects.
There's instructions to help build your own Iridis-Pi at the source link, and the best part is that it won't require a university-level budget to run.
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After two years of building and tweaking, the folks at Party Robotics have finally polished their Raspberry Pi-powered cocktail-making rig and have posted it to Kickstarter.
Xavier Pi-Sunyer, the Columbia University obesity specialist who ran Sanofi's trials, sees the drug being used mostly for morbidly obese patients, not to help anyone fit into a swimsuit.
At a recent competition for schools to come up with clever uses for the Raspberry Pi - the ultra-cheap micro-controller - there was a dearth of entries from state schools.
More than one million Raspberry Pi bare-bones computers have been sold since the official launch in late February 2012.
Check out the possibilities, from the Raspberry Pi (a single-board computer) to littleBits (electronic Legos).
Actress Nicole Kidman and Oscar-winning Life of Pi director Ang Lee will join Steven Spielberg on this year's Cannes Film Festival jury.
The South Africa native founded Pi, a start-up focused on cloud computing applications, in 2003 and sold the company to EMC in February.
This is in addition to many other codecs supported in software and you can purchase licenses from the Raspberry Pi Store for MPEG-2 and VC-1 hardware decoding for just a few bucks.
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They had all come up with clever ideas to use the Raspberry Pi, the ultra-cheap computer developed in Cambridge, and they were the finalists in a competition held by the technology advisors PA Consulting.
Mr. Blake derived a simple melody by playing a few dozen digits of pi using a C-major scale, with 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9 translated to the notes E, C, F, C, G, D and so on.
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