Fascinating Story of a Calculating Device Born (in part) in a Concentration Camp
New Atlas tells the story of the Curta mechanical calculator, and it’s designer Hertzsark who had to draw designs as a prisoner at Buchenwald. It’s well worth reading.
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Problems in the IT Business
The podcast/YouTube channel Into the Desert has been examining a number of issues in religion, philosophy, and politics. They have started a series on the problems with the IT business in general, including consolidation, deterioration of service, and employment issues including instability. Here’s the first video. They’ve made a second, but if you want to…
Link: CSNTM Using Multispectral Imaging on a Papyrus Manuscript
I always love it when my lifelong involvement with technology meets my area of formal training, as in the post Manuscripts Digitized at Southern Methodist University from the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts. One of the more interesting—and completely invalid—arguments regarding the text of the New Testament is the idea that I…
