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Emma just smashed the world record for calculating pi A Google employee has broken the Guinness World Record for calculating pi to the most number of digits, just in time for Pi Day on 14 March – or 3.14. A Google employee from Japan calculated the most accurate value of pi at 31 trillion digits and shattered the world record." Emma Haruka Iwao found the new numerical value of pi with the help of the Google's cloud computing service. Pi, which is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, is commonly recognized for its first few digits, but the numbers go on until infinity. Iwao said in the announcement that's she's been fascinated with pi since she was 12-- and never imagined breaking the Guinness World Record. "It begins with 3.1415 and it goes on forever," she said, adding pi manifests itself in daily life through buildings, highways and bridges. Iwao, a cloud developer advocate for Google, described how she beat the previous world record of 22 trillion digits. "In the past super computer and desktop computers were used to calculate pi, and today this is the first time a cloud was calculated to beat the world record," she said. "The biggest challenge is you need a lot of storage. If you want to calculate 31 trillion digital pi you need approximately 170 terabytes, thus the equivalent of 2,000 blue-ray disks." She stressed how vital it was to keep the operation free of error because a mistake could derail the final calculation. She said Google Compute Engine helped reach the record-breaking number because it allowed the application to run without interruption from "hardware failures or underlying software maintenance." In the end, Emma's calculation took the virtual machines about 121 days to complete. Once she checked out the number to be correct, she was relieved and realized it was an "exciting accomplishment" for her team.

Quiet Round Of Golf A man staggers into an emergency room with a concussion, multiple bruises, two black eyes and a five-iron wrapped tightly around his throat. Naturally, the doctor asks him what happened. "Well, it was like this, said the man.” "I was having a quiet round of golf with my wife, when at a difficult hole; we both sliced our balls into a grassland of cows. We went to look for them, and while rooting around, I noticed one of the cows had something white at its rear end. I walked over and lifted its tail, and sure enough, there was a golf ball with my wife's monogram on it - stuck right in the middle of the cow's butt". "That's when I made my big mistake". "What did you do?" asks the doctor. "Well I lifted the cow's tail, point at it and yelled to my wife. Hey this looks like yours" "I don't remember much after that"

hehehe.. first and only mistake and poof, instant death.. lmao..

Making a baby…. The Smiths were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the day the proxy father was to arrive, Mr. Smith kissed his wife goodbye and said, 'Well, I'm off now. The man should be here soon.' Half an hour later, just by chance, a door-to-door baby photographer happened to ring the doorbell, hoping to make a sale. 'Good morning, Ma'am', he said, 'I've come to....' 'Oh, no need to explain,' Mrs. Smith cut in, embarrassed, 'I've been expecting you.' 'Have you really?' said the photographer. 'Well, that's good. Did you know babies are my speciality?' 'Well that's what my husband and I had hoped. Please come in and have a seat! After a moment she asked, blushing, 'Well, where do we start?' 'Leave everything to me. I usually try two in the bathtub, one on the couch, and perhaps a couple on the bed. And sometimes the living room floor is fun. You can really spread out there.' 'Bathtub, living room floor? No wonder it didn't work out for Harry and me!' 'Well, Ma'am, none of us can guarantee a good one every time. But if we try several different positions, I'm sure you'll be pleased with the results.' 'My, that's a lot!’ gasped Mrs. Smith. 'Ma'am, in my line of work a man has to take his time. I'd love to be In and out in five minutes, but I'm sure you'd be disappointed with that.' 'Don't I know it,' said Mrs. Smith quietly. The photographer opened his briefcase and pulled out a Portfolio of his baby pictures. 'This was done on the top of a bus,' he said. 'Oh, my!' Mrs. Smith exclaimed, grasping at her throat. 'And these twins turned out exceptionally well - when you consider their mother was so difficult to work with.' 'She was difficult?' asked Mrs. Smith. 'Yes, I'm afraid so. I finally had to take her to the park to get the job done right. 'Yes', the photographer replied. 'And for more than three hours, too. The mother was constantly squealing and yelling - I could hardly concentrate, and when darkness approached, I had to rush my shots. Finally, when the squirrels began nibbling on my equipment, I just had to pack it all in.' Mrs. Smith leaned forward. 'Do you mean they actually chewed on your, uh...equipment?' 'It's true, Ma'am, yes. Well, if you're ready, I'll set-up my tripod and we can get to work right away.' 'Tripod?' 'Oh yes, Ma'am. I need to use a tripod to rest my Canon on. It's much too big to be held in the hand and it very long.' Mrs. Smith fainted

he World Wide Web is 30 years old Dial-up tone, clunky websites and AOL free trial CDs - it's clear that the earliest versions of the world wide web came with quirks and frustrations. Thirty years ago, Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal for the world wide web. To celebrate its anniversary, tech firms, early web users and retired politicians are flooding #Web30 on Twitter with nostalgic posts remembering their first interactions with the world wide web. Google Doodle celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web, first proposed on March 11th, 1989, by Tim Berners-Lee. Suppose all the information stored on computers everywhere were linked. Suppose I could program my computer to create a space in which everything could be linked to everything.’ Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web While today we use the words “internet” and “web” interchangeably, they actually refer to different things. The internet is the global network of computers that are able to communicate with one another and dates back to the US military’s ARPANET developed in the 60s. The web, meanwhile, is the public’s main way of accessing this network, and was proposed by Berners-Lee in the late 80s. The technology is complex, but Tim Berners-Lee’s genius was in creating a streamlined system that would allow people to easily navigate this network. The web is a complex series of URLs, linked by HTTP and formatted in HTML, but its abstract design makes it as simple to access as a series of interlinked webpages. The simplicity of this system was what allowed the general public (not just scientists and engineers) to make use of this vast, complex network. In 1989 the world’s largest physics laboratory, CERN, was a hive of ideas and information stored on multiple incompatible computers. Sir Tim Berners-Lee envisioned a unifying structure for linking information across different computers, and wrote a proposal in March 1989 called "Information Management: A Proposal". By 1991 this vision of universal connectivity had become the World Wide Web. Painfully slow dial-up modems First memories of the web: dial-up modems and that distorted jingle each time you had to manually log on. If you’d have shown me Wi-Fi back then it would have been akin to sorcery. I built my own PC specifically for making the most out of surfing the web, and it was all geared towards trying to get as close as possible to the dizzying heights of the theoretical 56 kbit/s download speed and having a computer that could capitalise on this. It never went much above 45 kbit/s, though. To give you some context, to download a 100GB film with that kit would have taken 165 days. Yes, almost half a year. Streaming anything was impossible, so everything was text-based. And the less text on a homepage, the faster it loaded -– which is why I recall clearly when Google launched its minimal homepage design in 1998 and the awe of those in the office who marvelled at its lack of clutter and its lightning load time. Far from the messy, hectic jumble of other established search engines, it was a breath of fresh air. Over the next half hour, I watched as it became the default homepage for the entire floor until all I could see was a sea of white screens with a text-entry box in the centre. You knew right then Google was going to dominate the web. Jeremy White

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