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Japanese Books: From Manuscript to Print

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Japanese Books: From Manuscript to Print

Final Project This is my final project for the edX course “Japanese Books: From Manuscript to Print” taught by Melissa McCormick, Professor of Japanese Art and Culture at Harvard University. I enjoyed this class very much and highly recommend it if you like bookbinding or Japanese culture. Here is a link to the edX course….

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Docker Adventures: Day 2

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Docker Adventures: Day 2

I find myself enjoying the automatically generated container names. I could see the patterns was an adjective followed by a famous scientist or technical celebrity. I got my favorite with “charming_feynman” and an important cosmonaut with “busy_gagarin.” After a few dozen, I didn’t see a single woman. So with the help of a post at…

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Docker Adventures: Day 1

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Docker Adventures: Day 1

I thought I would start my blog anew by sharing my learning curve as I get up to speed on using Kaldi, a speech recognition toolkit. After several false starts, I decided to give Docker Desktop after finding the Docker images in the GitHub repo for Kaldi. I first used Docker in a class this…

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