A similar editor was made for the book Thing Explainer[1] by Randal Munroe from XKCD. A book that explains all kinds of different things, from space shuttles to microwaves using the top 1000 common English words.
Indeed. I thought it was an interesting experiment. The results make it abundantly clear that 1,000 words are not enough to communicate about science and engineering topics effectively even at an introductory "plain English" level.
Some of the explanations are actually going into a textbook now, to accompany more traditional text. So it seems professionals disagree with you. I will concede that it might have been clearer with the top 2000 words or something, but that's my perspective and plenty of kids might disagree, especially those that have grown up with weird dialects or even sociolects like AAVE.
No. He's doing some drawings for text books. There is no chance that the thing explainer 1000 words affectation will be adopted for the text book for the purpose of actual teaching.
Just a small nit:
The words sound alike but they mean different things. You should have read everything, then you would have seen the reference.
Source: grammer.
I wouldn't even think of looking for a package that does something as simple as the ones mentioned. If I need to pad a string, my first thought would be to create a new function, not look for a package...
Is this an event/meeting coming up? Or is it supposed to be all online. Can't really seem to get much information on "Practical Python for Astronomers" from the site. It may just be me missing something...
No, they need to make it a bit clearer. On the surface, it looks like yet another "webinar"- or MOOC-like scheme to impose a realtime schedule on a presentation that has no inherent realtime requirement. (Yes, this is a pet peeve of mine.)
It's even worse when the "Location and time" columns are all "TBD."
On the front page, it says "The content presented here is suitable for self-study by those wishing to learn Python for astronomy or other scientific research applications."
Right below that, it says "The workshop material here was presented in the Spring of 2011 at the Harvard / Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. A range of about 25 to 50 people participated in the different workshops, which were 1.5 hours in duration. Based on our experience a 2 hour slot would have been more reasonable to allow time for the exercises and discussion."
It sounds like this was a series of workshops that were presented, and the material collected and released as reference for anybody else who wants to take initiative in their own communities.
This brings up a good question, though. What are the reasonable expectations for people who make their reference materials online after they're done with the initial conference talk or workshop, and have moved on to something else?
Would be nice to still have the Google search and recent tab thumbnails. Maybe just change the background of the new tab page instead. But still pretty neat!
So, you probably have hardware acceleration turned off in the settings, or else chrome doesn't like your graphics card driver and has disabled webgl. Check chrome://gpu
