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Statistical Process Control in Python

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Figure 2.1: Statistical Process Control! In this workshop, we will learn how to perform statistical process control in Python, using statistical tools and plotnine visualizations! Statistical Process Control refers to using statistics to (1) measure variation in product quality over time and (2) identify benchmarks to know when intervention is needed. Let’s get started! Getting […]

Paul Hegarty’s updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford

Below you will find links to videos and supporting course material for the first 6 lectures of the Spring 2025 version of Stanford’s CS193p (Developing Applications for iOS using SwiftUI).  It is a course Stanford students take to learn some of the basics of iOS development.  More lectures from the quarter will be posted soon. […]

Let go of StackOverflow; communities must take ownership

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Despite the title this is less a directive and more a description of what has already happened, and how I came to realize it. Still, there are many who remember StackOverflow as a revelation in the mid-2010s and think some vestige of those times remain. They think if they make an effort to distill their […]

Men Who Made America’s Self-Made Man

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Back in the days when only aristocrats and spiritual leaders could hold political and cultural authority, there was no pride in claiming to be self-made. Instead, an assertion of self-made success was dangerous, both blasphemous and foolhardy; it put souls and social relationships at risk. It took two revolutions and their ambitious storytellers to reverse […]

Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – The open-source chat UI

Hey HN, Chris and Yuhong here from Onyx (https://github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx). We’re building an open-source chat that works with any LLM (proprietary + open weight) and gives these LLMs the tools they need to be useful (RAG, web search, MCP, deep research, memory, etc.). Demo: https://youtu.be/2g4BxTZ9ztg Two years ago, Yuhong and I had the same recurring problem. […]

Apt Rust requirement raises questions

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It is rarely newsworthy when a project or package picks up a new dependency. However, changes in a core tool like Debian’s Advanced Package Tool (APT) can have far-reaching effects. For example, Julian Andres Klode’s declaration that APT would require Rust in May 2026 means that a few of Debian’s unofficial ports must either acquire […]

Brain has five ‘eras’ with adult mode not starting until early 30s

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Scientists have identified five major “epochs” of human brain development in one of the most comprehensive studies to date of how neural wiring changes from infancy to old age. The study, based on the brain scans of nearly 4,000 people aged under one to 90, mapped neural connections and how they evolve during our lives. […]

WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS

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Run Windows applications (including Microsoft 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud) on GNU/Linux with KDE Plasma, GNOME or XFCE, integrated seamlessly as if they were native to the OS. Underlying Mechanism WinApps works by: Running Windows in a Docker, Podman or libvirt virtual machine. Querying Windows for all installed applications. Creating shortcuts to selected Windows applications […]