http://nonstandarddeviation.com/2006/08/21/ancient-wonder-and-modern-mediocrity/ they distracted us, so now we're distracting you Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:12:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://nonstandarddeviation.com/2006/08/21/ancient-wonder-and-modern-mediocrity/#comment-183 non-standard deviation » distraction sunday Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:40:56 +0000 http://nonstandarddeviation.com/2006/08/21/ancient-wonder-and-modern-mediocrity/#comment-183 <p>[...] Apropos of nothing more than being subscribed to a feed that linked to it, my next stop was an article by John Cox detailing efforts to understand how the Antikythera Mechanism works. I’ve sounded off on this topic myself and, given that little rant, the portion of Cox’s report that most obviously migrated into medium-term memory is on page 3. It’s here that Cox quotes Michael Edmunds, a professor in the Cardiff University School of Physics and Astronomy, as describing the mechanism as a calculator rather than a computer since: [...]</p> [...] Apropos of nothing more than being subscribed to a feed that linked to it, my next stop was an article by John Cox detailing efforts to understand how the Antikythera Mechanism works. I’ve sounded off on this topic myself and, given that little rant, the portion of Cox’s report that most obviously migrated into medium-term memory is on page 3. It’s here that Cox quotes Michael Edmunds, a professor in the Cardiff University School of Physics and Astronomy, as describing the mechanism as a calculator rather than a computer since: [...]

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