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Monthly Archives: February 2009

2009 年春节学期 E1 班课

Saturday, February 28, 2009

My Spring 2009 Class Schedule

星期一
星期二
星期三
星期四
星期五

08:00 – 09:50
阅读

综合
听说
听说

10:00 – 11:50
综合

阅读
写作
综合

午 饭 （lunch）
Afternoon on Tuesday:

13:00 – 14:50

综合

15:00 – 16:50

听说

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Cranberries and Raisins Don’t Mix Well

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Or, perhaps it was the apple? Today’s meal was curried vegetables and rice. Since I use a rice cooker, I’ve been wanting to try cooking “extra” stuff in the rice at the same time. I added some raisins to the rice. It did a nice job of cooking the rice and plumping up the raisins, [...]

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Google as a poor man’s OCR

Friday, February 13, 2009

I was reading a couple days ago a post comparing different OCR programs. Turns out that Google’s own proprietary OCR engine is often better under some circumstances. It seems they’ve adjusted it to use specific handling for many more use cases.
So, I’ve scanned the first two pages of my upcoming semester book. You can read [...]

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One Laptop per Child and fast browsing

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Here’s a little different viewpoint on the OLPC XO program, from a web browser performance perspective.
This guy works at Google (near the top, btw) and normally writes about optimization, but this small blog entry deals with the OLPC XO program, so I thought it would be interesting regardless.
Of course, if you’re into fast browsers <smile> [...]

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Is this site too difficult for comments?

Monday, February 9, 2009

Not withstanding the rather mundane quality or lack of regular posts, I’m wondering if it’s just too hard to register on the site (for real people, I mean).
Please let me know.

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