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Tang Poem meets Google Translate

Monday, March 30, 2009

For today’s assignment in “Zonghe” (Comprehensive) I have to write about a Tang poem (partly because I couldn’t memorize it on the spot, citing the fact that I didn’t know what the words meant – hence found it hard to remember).
Part of the assignment (I think) was to find out about the poem, so [...]

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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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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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