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by rossant 3y ago
Thank you.
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by rossant 3y ago
I am so sorry.
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by rossant 3y ago
From the README: Open-source software, despite being shared critical infrastructure, is maintained by volunteers or by full-time company employees. Neither is a sustainable model, the former for obvious reasons, and the latter because avail
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by rossant 3y ago
Well, this has nothing to do with programming and goes way beyond being merely "useless"; yet it might offer some perspective on your question and perhaps help you relativise things. There's a global industry involving thousa
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An Introduction to the Scientific Controversy over Shaken Baby Syndrome (2022)(cyrille.rossant.net)
1 points by rossant 3y ago|0 comments
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by rossant 3y ago
Incredible. It's like discovering your colleague for 2 years at the secret nuclear weapon facility is a spy for another country, covering his tracks until the very last minute. Feels like a Hollywood movie is coming up. Should we start
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by rossant 3y ago
There's also https://pyodide.org/en/stable/
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by rossant 3y ago
RIP. When I was a preteen, I was offered his 1998 CD featuring Beethoven's piano sonatas op. 22, op. 26, and op. Waldstein. I listened to it hundreds of times. That's when my love for piano music began.
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by rossant 3y ago
> Unfortunately, prosecutors are not trying to find out the truth, they're simply trying to put whoever is in front of them in prison. It doesn't matter if the suspect is guilty. If the guy goes to prison, they win. Yes, exactl
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by rossant 3y ago
Add shaken baby syndrome to that list. [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402
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by rossant 3y ago
This article has a significant backstory. A highly influential study by Chadwick et al. in 1991 [1] asserted that reports of fatal short falls in children are invariably falsified and actually stem from violence. They reached this conclusio
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Statistical models of hospital fatality rates after accidental falls in children(sciencedirect.com)
6 points by rossant 3y ago|2 comments
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by rossant 3y ago
From the article: > fMRI is extremely sensitive to movement and requires subjects to comply with the task: decoding is easily resisted by slightly moving one’s head or thinking about unrelated information (Tang et al., 2023)
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Death in Custody: National Academy of Sciences Committee on Forensic Pathology(nationalacademies.org)
3 points by rossant 3y ago|0 comments
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by rossant 3y ago
You might need to click on the grid first to focus on it, so that the grid receives the keyboard events. I agree it's not a great UX. Perhaps the focus should be made automatically when the script runs.
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by rossant 3y ago
Glad you find it helpful! Still a lot of polish to do and I'll happily merge pull requests.
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by rossant 3y ago
I've been programing in Python for 15+ years and I can relate. I wrote books for your exact use case but they're a bit old. There are many other alternatives now. https://ipython-books.github.io/
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by rossant 3y ago
Yeah, sorry. Make it work before make it right, I guess.
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by rossant 3y ago
Thanks!
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by rossant 3y ago
Yes, there was a localization-related bug, sorry about that. Should be fixed now.
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by rossant 3y ago
Very nice! I'll have a look. Thank you. As a French, language is an additional barrier and I implemented some facilities in PyKidos to allow for translations of built-in global variables and functions (color names etc). But the Python
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by rossant 3y ago
This application is aimed at parents who want to teach programming to their children. The tutorial is for the parents, not for the kids :) I can't envision children using this application independently without adult supervision. Design
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Show HN: PyKidos, Teach Your Kid Python in the Browser(pykidos.github.io)
132 points by rossant 3y ago|57 comments
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by rossant 3y ago
Hi HN! I'm pleased to present PyKidos [1], a quick-and-dirty web application I built in a few days to teach my 8-year-old kid basic programming concepts using Python. I tried several existing apps but couldn't find one that met al
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The Colorado DNA Scandal That Could Threaten Criminal Cases(wsj.com)
3 points by rossant 3y ago|0 comments
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Accident or Abuse? Predictive Models for Pediatric Head Injuries(nij.ojp.gov)
1 points by rossant 3y ago|1 comments
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by rossant 3y ago
That was hilarious. Thank you.
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by rossant 3y ago
Just my favorite video ever.
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Maria Joao Pires expecting another Mozart concerto during a lunchconcert [video](youtube.com)
1 points by rossant 3y ago|1 comments
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by rossant 3y ago
Wow, all those people jumping in to help him graciously. So touching.

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