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Laurie Young: Scrum Master, Dancer, Photographer and Entrepreneur

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  • Influencer Number

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    Paul Erdos is famous in the world of mathematics. He spent his life travelling America, finding mathematicians to befriend and helping them with their work. In order to honour his contributions, the “Erdos Number” was created. Anyone who collaborated with Erdos on a paper has an Erdos Number of 1, any of their collaborators have an Erdos [...]

  • Getting better – in leaps

    The first million you ever make is the hardest – or so the saying goes. This is not only true, but its true at any scale. The first £100 you make, is the hardest. The first £1000 you make is the hardest. The first £10k you make is the hardest. This is because the hard [...]

  • Missing a conference – when you are a speaker

    I recently had a family incident that required me to pull out at the last minute from attending the Rails Underground conference. Normally, not turning up to a conference is no big deal, but this time I was due to be a speaker. I was gutted to miss the conference, as it was going to [...]

  • Silly Algorithms Over Lunch

    One of the things I absolutely knew I wanted when I was looking for a job, was to recapture the glory days of my student years, when we used to take a coffee break every morning, and come up with totally cool and utterly insane ideas. Such as proving that it was worth doing nothing [...]

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