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https://archive.is/bAdmO
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Yes, I've come to the same pattern after many year of crafting explanations. If I may add somethig, an initial step 0 that contains a "pitch" or "hook" to motivate reader to read the material. e.g. why what you&#x27
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Yes, the SymPy live shell is based on pyodide and the jupyterlite shell: https://live.sympy.org/ (recommend desktop browser, but works on mobile too)
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In case anyone is interested to learn more about SymPy, check out this printable tutorial: https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pd... It covers basic fundamentals (high school math like solvin
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+1 one for exercise tracker. I got the Fitbit Luxe a couple of years and I have been wearing it every time for exercise to get points. A bit like gamification. Highly recommended. It's small enough that i don't notice it.
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Wow, the youtube uBlock rules hack is brilliant! I think I will gain 3+ hours of my life back per day. Thank you so much for sharing!
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Another strategy that works really well with beginners is to use jupter notebooks via https://mybinder.org/ links. We put all the materials on github, and then send the workshop participants a link[2] that launches a remot
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The main difficulties we've faced are around cross-platform instructions, specifically Windows. I suppose for basic Python it would be easy enough, but the complexity escalates once you need modules and have to run a `pip install` or t
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Nice! I've been using and recommending JupyterLab Desktop to newcomers since the first release, and things work great out of the box. To give you an example, we held an "Intro to Python" tutorial with absolute beginners, and
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Hm... I don't know of any. For precalculus it wouldn't make sense, since the whole point of precalculus is to make sure learners can do the `solve`, `factor`, `expand`, etc. verbs using pen and paper. These are generally useful sk
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I like that the author spends time on notation, mapping math concepts to their equivalent in code. In my experience this is a big stumbling block for coders trying to learn math. It's difficult enough for the general audience to learn
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Yes, +1 for SymPy being the perfect tool for teaching (very little to new learn learn after the initial call to `symbols` to create the symbolic vars). The best part for me is the SymPy API methods have the same names as the concepts I am t
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I don't post regularly, but I like to share "video tutorials" which consist of explaining material from a textbook side-by-side with an interactive coding session in a jupyter notebook. Judging by the comments, people like t
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This reminds me of this video[1] used to illustrate what coding is like for a young audience. In the video a father follows instructions written by his two kids about how to make a peanut butter sandwich, and follows each instruction litera
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Several other people mentioned the "file away" open tabs approach (but not necessarily try to go back to them). I'm a big fan of the One Tab extension for this: https://www.one-tab.com/ for this task. I have
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Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/3hAkR
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Sony MDR-7506 headphones[1]. I bought them at least 15 years ago after seeing my friend (a sound engineer) use in his studio. Apparently professionals like them because they are "flat" don't try to boost bass or anything. The
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> RE: ugly and fragile instance of a poorly designed, inherently unreadable, archaic language That's a lot of hate for LaTeX, and some of it is warranted, but you have to think of the results, not the source... It's not the sou
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Is it time to kill calculus?(salon.com)
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Here is another script `getmp3.sh` that you can use to download .mp3 file from any youtube music video: #!/usr/bin/env bash echo "Downloading mp3 from $1" yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 "$1" Yo
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I've experienced that too, but only for "bad writing." I'm normally able to follow narrative (both fiction and non-fiction) that has something to teach, and also enjoying listening to classic literature no problem... But
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Or you could use the command `say` on the command line on any current mac to get good-enough text-to-speech. See full script here: https://gist.github.com/ivanistheone/de3ccb244224d101bb93320... and this doc explains
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> Unfortunately, the resources I've found have left much to be desired. Yeah most textbooks out there are pretty bad (aim to cover the standard curriculum, which is not very useful for most practical statistical analysis tasks). Rec
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I'm continuing work on the No Bullshit Guide to Statistics, which is an introductory book on statistics that includes all necessary prerequisites (practical data analysis using Pandas and probability theory math using the computer mode
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Agreed. I'm currently working on a book on statistics[1] and keep discovering slight (and not so slight) misconceptions in my thinking thanks to the "optional" code examples and demonstrations. In the end, it seems the code e
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I watched a few videos by this author last year, and he's very good. Great at explaining things without jargon, but also goes deep enough to show the "sharp edges". He had an email course that combined video lectures with hom
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+1 for twinkle lights. It's getting dark very early these days (Canada) and I was not feeling very productive after sundown. Why would I go back to my desk? But then I added a $12 christmas lights set all around the walls, and now look
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non-paywalled link https://archive.ph/DgDYQ
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> I would love to see a guide to how to use this to transparently display where files are stored [...] I'm not 100% sure I understand your request for a guide, but if you create your own repo based on the jupyterlite/demo templ
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There was some work (and POC) on getting pyodide to work as a thebe backend. You can check out this thread: https://github.com/executablebooks/thebe/issues/465 and other issues/PRs backlinked to it. I do

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