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  "id": 291489,
  "title": "Anyone Develop on an iPad?",
  "url": "/competitions/tensorflow-great-barrier-reef/discussion/291489",
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  "post_date": "2021-11-29T14:41:38.462470600Z",
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  "content": "<p>I’m trying to use my iPad to develop Jupyter notebooks but the editor doesn’t work well. </p>\n<p>One trick I use to force the large keyboard to appear, which has copy/paste icons, is to go into the Notes app then switch back to the notebook. I’m also forced to add extra cells at the bottom so scrolling works better.  Any other tricks to make it more usable?</p>\n<p>Finally, I don’t have an attached hardware keyboard. Does that help make the editor work better? My iPad is a bit older so I was holding out to purchase with my next iPad. </p>\n<p>Love sitting back in my favorite chair to start my notebooks but often have to switch to my laptop sooner than I’d like. </p>",
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      "content": "<p>I’m trying to use my iPad to develop Jupyter notebooks but the editor doesn’t work well. </p>\n<p>One trick I use to force the large keyboard to appear, which has copy/paste icons, is to go into the Notes app then switch back to the notebook. I’m also forced to add extra cells at the bottom so scrolling works better.  Any other tricks to make it more usable?</p>\n<p>Finally, I don’t have an attached hardware keyboard. Does that help make the editor work better? My iPad is a bit older so I was holding out to purchase with my next iPad. </p>\n<p>Love sitting back in my favorite chair to start my notebooks but often have to switch to my laptop sooner than I’d like. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I’m trying to use my iPad to develop Jupyter notebooks but the editor doesn’t work well. \n\nOne trick I use to force the large keyboard to appear, which has copy/paste icons, is to go into the Notes app then switch back to the notebook. I’m also forced to add extra cells at the bottom so scrolling works better.  Any other tricks to make it more usable?\n\nFinally, I don’t have an attached hardware keyboard. Does that help make the editor work better? My iPad is a bit older so I was holding out to purchase with my next iPad. \n\nLove sitting back in my favorite chair to start my notebooks but often have to switch to my laptop sooner than I’d like.",
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      "id": "1599583",
      "postDate": "11/29/2021 15:03:22",
      "content": "<ul>\n<li>Well if you mean just via browser, I've found it to be quite small and hard to use, even with the mouse, nevertheless sometimes I use it for heavy notebook edits, my macbook tends to always overheat, whereas the ipad doesn't and works fine with an external monitor, external keyboards are definitely a must since the screen is so small. </li>\n<li>Unfortunately Apple only allows pure python as far as I know, so apps like pythonista, pyto and juno obviously don't have pytorch or tensorflow. </li>\n</ul>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Well if you mean just via browser, I've found it to be quite small and hard to use, even with the mouse, nevertheless sometimes I use it for heavy notebook edits, my macbook tends to always overheat, whereas the ipad doesn't and works fine with an external monitor, external keyboards are definitely a must since the screen is so small. \n- Unfortunately Apple only allows pure python as far as I know, so apps like pythonista, pyto and juno obviously don't have pytorch or tensorflow.",
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      "author_name": "shtrausslearning",
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      "post_date": "11/29/2021 15:03:22",
      "content": "<ul>\n<li>Well if you mean just via browser, I've found it to be quite small and hard to use, even with the mouse, nevertheless sometimes I use it for heavy notebook edits, my macbook tends to always overheat, whereas the ipad doesn't and works fine with an external monitor, external keyboards are definitely a must since the screen is so small. </li>\n<li>Unfortunately Apple only allows pure python as far as I know, so apps like pythonista, pyto and juno obviously don't have pytorch or tensorflow. </li>\n</ul>",
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    "1599567": "I’m trying to use my iPad to develop Jupyter notebooks but the editor doesn’t work well. \n\nOne trick I use to force the large keyboard to appear, which has copy/paste icons, is to go into the Notes app then switch back to the notebook. I’m also forced to add extra cells at the bottom so scrolling works better.  Any other tricks to make it more usable?\n\nFinally, I don’t have an attached hardware keyboard. Does that help make the editor work better? My iPad is a bit older so I was holding out to purchase with my next iPad. \n\nLove sitting back in my favorite chair to start my notebooks but often have to switch to my laptop sooner than I’d like.",
    "1599583": "Well if you mean just via browser, I've found it to be quite small and hard to use, even with the mouse, nevertheless sometimes I use it for heavy notebook edits, my macbook tends to always overheat, whereas the ipad doesn't and works fine with an external monitor, external keyboards are definitely a must since the screen is so small. \n- Unfortunately Apple only allows pure python as far as I know, so apps like pythonista, pyto and juno obviously don't have pytorch or tensorflow."
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