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by rossant 3y ago
Even more retro would be using tables.
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by rossant 3y ago
Wow nice, thanks for the tip! I'd never have thought of using spaced repetition for piano practice, sounds like great advice.
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Mauricio Poppe's Blog(mauriciopoppe.com)
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Optimizing Trilinear Interpolation(jacco.ompf2.com)
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by rossant 3y ago
You can add to your list the medical detection of child abuse from brain scans, aka abusive head trauma/shaken baby syndrome [1, 2]. Heavily unreliable without further evidence of physical trauma. [1] my blog post: https://w
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by rossant 3y ago
I concur. The Innocence Project and the CIFS are terrific organization. They are actively and effectively addressing flaws in a system that too often proves unjust to innocent citizens. They deserve all support and funding possible. Until I
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Hair sample that put a man in prison turned out to be dog hair(reason.com)
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Face recognition technology follows a long history of surveillance and control(theconversation.com)
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by rossant 3y ago
Look up shaken baby syndrome https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402
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by rossant 3y ago
That is true for a number of forensic methods, indeed [1]. For the sole issue of the controversial diagnosis of abusive head trauma (one forensic method among many other, which specifically involves sudden infant deaths or collapses), there
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by rossant 3y ago
You could try Termly: https://termly.io/
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Correcting Wrongful Convictions in France (2020) [pdf](elevenjournals.com)
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AI Discovers That Not Every Fingerprint Is Unique(engineering.columbia.edu)
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What is the Smallest Prime? (2012) [pdf](cs.uwaterloo.ca)
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Quantum physics proposes a new way to study biology(theconversation.com)
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Is 0 a natural number? A poll on X(twitter.com)
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by rossant 3y ago
An incredibly powerful GUI library. Not easy to use, only for experienced developers. It's quite useful for scientific visualization as well! Many kudos to the main developer and the community.
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M Cave and the Unexplained Disappearance of Kenny Veach (2019)(nevadamagazine.com)
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Cahier, an all-in-one document management and note-taking desktop application(getcahier.com)
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Scientists unveil first complete cellular map of adult mouse brain(alleninstitute.org)
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Mother wrongly jailed for 20 years has convictions quashed(cnn.com)
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by rossant 3y ago
When my son was diagnosed with shaken baby syndrome [1], I investigated the science of this diagnosis and found out horrifying mistakes in French diagnosis guidelines, especially in physics-based arguments. These guidelines were written by
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by rossant 3y ago
Pretty much the same thing happened in France: https://www.cairn.info/revue-journal-du-droit-des-jeunes-200... (in French) Experts using scientifically unreliable methods to determine that asylum seekers are 18+ and can the
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by rossant 3y ago
Mathematicians Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez have written an entire book on this very issue of bad statistics causing miscarriages of justice: https://www.amazon.com/Math-Trial-Numbers-Abused-Courtroom/d...
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by rossant 3y ago
The author could have also mentioned the controversial diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma which has long relied on bad science, resulting in wrongful convictions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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Bad science and bad statistics in the courtroom convict innocent people(scientificamerican.com)
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by rossant 3y ago
I discovered HTML in 1998 when I was 12. I was fascinated. I wanted to build my own website, but on what topic? I didn't have much imagination. So, I built an HTML tutorial website, in HTML. Fun times.
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by rossant 3y ago
What an incredibly powerful, robust, well-documented, carefully-designed piece of open source software. I love Django so much and I use it every day. A huge thanks to all developers and maintainers.
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ChatGPT one year on: who is using it, how and why?(nature.com)
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Wearable biosensor measures fertility hormones in sweat(nature.com)
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