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Had a brilliant day in Oxford!

Visited Blackwell's Bookshop! <3 They have a giant underground room with cozy lighting, and staff that radiates their love of books!

Like 27 May at 21:56 | Open on chaos.social

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blinry replied to blinry

Saw a dodo skeleton at the Natural History Museum!

27 May at 21:58 | Open on chaos.social

blinry replied to blinry

Found the Penrose Paving at the Mathematical Institute!

Also learned that they published most of their undergraduate lectures on YouTube: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/67930

27 May at 22:01 | Open on chaos.social

blinry replied to blinry

I really enjoyed my stay in Oxford, glad I came here! Such a cool and interesting place!

Tomorrow, I'll head to my final in-between stop before I go to #emf2024!

27 May at 22:10 | Open on chaos.social

blinry replied to blinry

Minding the step today.

28 May at 9:51 | Open on chaos.social

blinry replied to blinry

I'm in Bletchley! :) Was greeted by a cat committee.

28 May at 18:17 | Open on chaos.social

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Visited the National Museum of Computing today. I've been to plenty of computer museums – but this one is special: Almost everything works!

You can type on an Enigma, and then see how a bombe helped decipher it. It's *loud*!!

They also have a computer from 1951, the "Witch", which still works! It had 340 bytes of RAM, could calculate five values per second, and punch them out on paper tape!

28 May at 18:32 | Open on chaos.social