Pinning it down

A recent paper by Carman and Evans dates one of the dials of the Antikythera mechanism to the late 3rd century BCE.

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Breaking out of the black box

Sylvia Tippmann offers a brief introduction for scientists to the programming language R and its ecosystem.

Another one down

Dr. Dobb's Journal is heading into the sunset.

Meet Marian

The NPR library is looking for a software developer to extend the library's in-house digital asset management apps. Maybe that person is you? LAMP is the technology stack; JavaScript and jQuery are also important. And I can attest that we do Agile here, and we do it right.

Bias interrupters

James Surowiecki recaps the gender disparity in tech, touching on the observed dropoff in female CS degrees since 1980.

Promoting diversity isn’t, as many techies think, pure do-gooderism. It’s genuinely good for business, since a large body of evidence suggests that making organizations more diverse can also make them perform better.... A worldwide study, published in May, of more than four thousand R. & D. teams found that gender-diverse teams were considerably better at driving “radical innovation.”