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Researchers find 23,000-year-old footprints in the United States(lemonde.fr)
20 points by rossant 3y ago|0 comments
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by rossant 3y ago
Yes, it is weird that WebGPU is not even mentioned on the README. Maybe this project was initiated before WebGPU was mature enough (for the record, WebGPU is still mentioned as an "experimental technology" by MDN ( https:/&#x
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"Unreliable" Lung Float Test Still Being Used to Convict Women of Murder(propublica.org)
1 points by rossant 3y ago|0 comments
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by rossant 3y ago
Not directly related to this case, but the book Math on trial by Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez covers several examples of misapplied statistics in court: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_on_Trial
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by rossant 3y ago
Great post. Git becomes much less mysterious once knowing how it works internally.
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Mojo v0.4.0 has been released(docs.modular.com)
5 points by rossant 3y ago|0 comments
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The fundamental mechanisms of the Korotkoff sounds generation(science.org)
3 points by rossant 3y ago|0 comments
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Experts call for Lucy Letby inquiry to cover statistical evidence used in trial(theguardian.com)
1 points by rossant 3y ago|0 comments
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by rossant 3y ago
In France, criminal trials typically involve juries. Many judges tend to be overly and blindly reliant on expert testimony (often biased and unscientific in specific cases such as suspicions of child abuse) whereas juries can be more open m
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by rossant 3y ago
Blatant reason why a native solution was long overdue.
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by rossant 3y ago
Yes, there are similar forensic unreliability issues between arson and shaken baby syndrome. Look up "negative corpus" [1]: it's not because you could not find any explanation for a fire or a death that it's necessarily
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Texas man sent to death row over junk science denied US Supreme Court appeal(theguardian.com)
271 points by rossant 3y ago|203 comments
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French far-right leader seeks to take advantage of AI debate(lemonde.fr)
11 points by rossant 3y ago|14 comments
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by rossant 3y ago
The dashes do not take up any space, they are not encoded. I think it's fairly common to reserve some space to versions and ECC in uuids, packets etc. That's a price to pay to avoid many bugs and compatibility issues.
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by rossant 3y ago
What if you want to practice drums on the music?
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Jeremy Howard says he was erased from the history of Kaggle on Wikipedia(twitter.com)
3 points by rossant 3y ago|0 comments
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by rossant 3y ago
ImGui is an amazing piece of software. Being able to quickly display interactive widgets and dynamic charts for your variables and objects is incredibly useful when working on GPU-based visualization applications. The variety of features it
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French study reopens the debate on the impact of screen time for kids(lemonde.fr)
2 points by rossant 3y ago|0 comments
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The Moldovan government sold myst.md to the MyST Markdown developers(twitter.com)
1 points by rossant 3y ago|0 comments
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by rossant 3y ago
A tiny selection of the relevant literature: [1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0... [2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1440-1754.
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by rossant 3y ago
It's actually a fairly good idea, we think about it a lot. My highest hope is that technology soon reaches a point where it's cheap and convenient and not totally socially awkward to videotape the life of a baby 24/7. I feel
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by rossant 3y ago
Things are even worse for other nannies. I know many who have been convicted to 8, 12 or even 15 years of jail, after 30 ou 40 years of perfect careers with no problem whatsoever. Some have appealed and were eventually acquitted, others are
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by rossant 3y ago
Some statistics from New Zealand: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/08/study-one-in-f...
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by rossant 3y ago
That could only happen if such discussions could actually take place. So far, the controversy has been so polarized that there has been almost no communication between the two "sides". Norman Guthkelch himself (the first to hypoth
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by rossant 3y ago
Totally, child abuse pediatricians, forensic pediatric pathologists etc. are exposed on a daily basis to the very worse things imaginable in the world (autopsies of babies beaten to death and so on), and yet they need to keep a calm and rat
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by rossant 3y ago
I agree. It's kind of ironic you mention "denial". It turns out this is one of the favorite attacks by "SBS proponents" against those who challenge the scientific reliability of the diagnosis. We are called "de
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by rossant 3y ago
> In order to diagnose SBS, the author suggests that you need additional evidence suggesting trauma such as bruising, broken bones, etc. Indeed, that seems to be what the SBS lobby is now saying as well, they just haven't communicat
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by rossant 3y ago
That's a very interesting and relevant comment. Maybe that happens in a few cases. However, the reality in my experience is much more complex (and interesting). This is basically an instance of a coerced internalized false confession,
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by rossant 3y ago
I had no idea that was possible. Thank you.
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by rossant 3y ago
I've seen police officers say the exact opposite: "It's better to imprison 100 innocent people than risking letting 1 criminal go free and harm children". Sigh.

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