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Amazing automata fascinate Cornwall museum visitors
A collection of automata have been drawing in visitors to the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro.
Those behind the Marvellous Mechanical Museum exhibition said it was a blend of art and science, and full of fun.
The automata, plural of automaton - a small, mechanical figure that can move automatically - are helping those who visit learn about mechanics, engineering and construction as well as art.
bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwa #automata #museums #BBC

Still looking for a second reviewer for @pyOpenSci

Package: automata
review: github.com/pyOpenSci/software-
repo: github.com/caleb531/automata
description: A Python library for simulating finite automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines.

Open reviews are a great way to learn by teaching, see what other people are up to, and make software development a valued and creditable part of academic work. Anyone with familiarity with Python is welcome as a reviewer, experience in the topic domain is a bonus but not required. DM me or reply on the above issue, it's fun, i promise! :)

edit: reviewer found! thank you @iris <3

GitHubautomata · Issue #152 · pyOpenSci/software-submissionBy eliotwrobson

I'm looking for reviewers for two packages at the moment:

Automata (@pyOpenSci )
Review: github.com/pyOpenSci/software-
Repo: github.com/caleb531/automata
A #Python library for simulating finite #automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines.

Kirstine.jl
( @joss )
Review: github.com/openjournals/joss-r
Repo: sr.ht/~lsandig/Kirstine.jl
A #Julia package for Bayesian optimal experimental design with nonlinear regression models.

You'll be working with another reviewer to read and run the code, make sure it fills a basic checklist which usually only takes a few hours, and beyond that whatever youd like to focus on. Both of these are collaborative review processes where the goal is to help these packages be usable, well documented, and maintainable for the overall health of free scientific software.

Its fun, I promise! Happy to answer questions and boosts welcome.

Edit: feel free to volunteer as a reply here, DM me, or commenting on those issues! Anyone is welcome! Some experience with the language required, but other than that I can coach you through the rest.

GitHubautomata · Issue #152 · pyOpenSci/software-submissionBy eliotwrobson

Putting a call out for @pyOpenSci reviewers :)

Package: automata - "A Python library for simulating finite automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines."
github.com/pyOpenSci/software-

Looks like a good bit of fun (cellular automata are a recurring love of mine) - we would love to give people who haven't had a chance to review software a go here, but previous reviewers welcome too. You'll be taking on the role of a prospective user and colleague advising and trying to help make a package work as well as it can, reaching some minimum standard via checklist, raising issues and making suggestions as you read and run it.

More on the review process: pyopensci.org/software-peer-re

Reply here or DM me, (though my notifications are getting mauled rn so probably DM)

GitHubautomata · Issue #152 · pyOpenSci/software-submissionBy eliotwrobson

'Brazen Heads' were mythical(?) #medieval #automata – bronze heads that could speak prophecy, tho some could only answer 'yes' or 'no'. Image 1: prop brazen head for TV series Da Vinci's Demons, season 2 episode 8.

13th Cent. monk Roger Bacon was rumored to own a brazen head, seen here in a 1630 engraving for the title page of a play about Bacon published in London. The head on the wall speaks 'Time is. Time was. Time is past.'