A computer science student has won $40,000 for deciphering the first word on an ancient Roman scroll carbonized by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E. The papyrus scroll looks more like a burnt log ...

Almost 2000 years after they were buried by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, scrolls from a library in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum have begun to reveal their secrets. The ...

In my last few articles, I looked at several different Python modules that are useful for doing computations. But, what tools are available to help you analyze the results from those computations?

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