Chrome Shorts
OH MY GOD! The Chrome Shorts are really cute! It’s as if I’m turning into a small kids awestruck by some of the videos! Good timing! Have been pretty stressed up getting things right in my mind (while...
View ArticleACL-IJCNLP ‘09 Blog
I have been invited to co-ordinate the blog for ACL-IJCNLP ‘09, a joint conference on natural language processing to be held in Singapore this August. We will be posting both general articles about NLP...
View ArticleApplying for J1 Waiver
I am starting my J1 foreign residency requirement waiver application in the next few days. Anyone with such experience before? I’ve heard that it is a long and painful wait. Sigh.
View ArticleRandom sample from a long linked list
Sorry for the long no-update period. I had quite a few posts that I wrote half way in my posting queues but haven’t got the time to finish them since I was very busy with work and research. Plus I’m...
View ArticleLargest value sub-array [part 1]
I was teaching a bunch of freshman the other day. One of the questions that came up was to determine the largest value sub-array given an array of integers. Obviously, the value is the array can be...
View ArticleGoogle Wave account first preview
I finally had a chance to play around with my Google Wave account, now that I’m slightly freer. Well, to be really honest, at first, I was a little lost. I didn’t have many contacts with Wave accounts...
View ArticleWe’re mad people
Two friends and I came up with an idea to come up with a wiki for our internal group usage to help with community building. Know what? It’s an insane effort! Within two weeks, we have a domain name...
View ArticleHappy holiday!
Happy holiday folks! Hope the new year brings in more joy and fun and happiness…
View ArticleGuarantees in sizes of C++ objects
Well, this is really basic, but something I did not always remember. So I decided to check up on this in Stroustrup book that happened to be on my table this morning. Here is what I found: C++ objects...
View ArticleBackward-compatibility vs. forward-fitting
I have serious problem with Adobe. I just watched a presentation video from Adobe on CS 5 here (YouTube video). My problem is with their last feature: exporting Flash animation to HTML5 canvas. This...
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