Lulis Leal, 47, of New York, is also getting in on the pi memorization action.
Derived from multiple proxies with global distribution, the PI provides independent evidence of the warming observed in the thermometer-based record.
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As a secondary measure, the PI was also extrapolated back from 1880 (where the comparison to MLOST begins) back to 1730.
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As you can see in the graph to the right, the temperature trends from the PI strongly correlate with that from MLOST.
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In short, it's a top-notch emulator that runs reliably on the Pi.
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The Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity said it was investigating the incident.
One user has compiled a map charting the Pi's global spread.
Ashley Newson, 17, took the top prize in the 14-18 category for SmartSim which is a digital circuit and simulation package for the Pi.
Programming experience is not required "if you are smart and persistent, " but it will certainly be easier if you have some, according to the Pi website.
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.
The bare-bones computer project has proved hugely popular and the websites of two of the firms contracted to build the machines crashed when the Pi went on general sale.
SerPint, by Louis Goessling, aged 11, made it easier to control more devices via the Pi and The Matrix by Conner Foxley, also 12, was a text-based world simulator.
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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"The recent allegations against these individuals have come as a complete shock to The Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity, its 15, 000 undergraduate members and over 200, 000 living alumni, family and friends, " the statement said.
Then there was the North Yorkshire community school which had turned the Pi into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) reader to measure lap times in their cross-country races, and the London independent school whose pupils had come up with Teacher's Pet, a way of delivering homework via USB sticks plugged into the tiny computer.
Erickson also used the digits of pi (as well as the constant e) as the basis for the melody of his Pi Symphony, which was performed by the Omaha Symphony Orchestra Chamber group and by Ruse Philharmonic of Bulgaria last year.
Between the Raspberry Pi and the new Chromebox, we've been spending more time than usual lately talking about miniature desktops.
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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.
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.
If that does happen, it will also provide useful evidence that the Raspberry Pi is reaching the audience at which it was originally targeted.
The Raspberry Pi is about the size of a credit card but is a fully working computer created to help young people get started with programming.
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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The two-month long competition was run by the foundation behind the Raspberry Pi and intended to find the best young programmers working with the bare-bones computer.
But he accepts that the Raspberry Pi foundation, having successfully launched the hardware, now needs to focus on its original educational objective.
This means the team is confident they've delivered a stable distro to run the port of XBMC specifically designed to run on the Raspberry Pi, created by TeamXBMC, and the image is ready to be downloaded for free and copied to your ready and able SD card.
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These include the Raspberry Pi, which you all know very well, along with the Timesquare DIY Watch Kit and MintyBoost, the open-source hardware charger.
Last year, the Seattle Pi revealed that about 56% of Live members had upgraded to the paid subscription service, Gold.
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The campus, which is the seat of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, certainly has a vested interest in getting new coders to the board -- not that they need to create any more demand.
The Raspberry Pi was recently road tested with pupils at a Chesterton Community College in the U.K. and allowed kids to program their own version of the old-fashioned Snake game, made famous on those early, Nokia phones.
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In a blogpost about the Model A, Liz Upton, community manager for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, said it was "very, very pleased" to have the new version go on sale.
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