Category Archives: Computer Science

Journal of the Week

Posted on October 12, 2025 by timlyg

10/15/2025 Wednesday How AI sort out various English accents: This is a start. Quite interesting. 10/13/2025 Monday There seems to be bed/clothing bug problem the last few days. This would be the first bug problem we have since moving from … Continue reading →

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Excel: Return row number if value of a cell in a column matches a cell in another column and another condition is matched in yet another column

Posted on September 23, 2025 by timlyg

I needed to do this at work (SPG), and google's AI worked marvelously, as easy as it maybe for advanced Excel Formula experts which I am not. Ingenious solution by Google: In Excel, you can return a row number based … Continue reading →

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TOP vs. IaaS vs. CaaS vs. PaaS vs. FaaS vs. SaaS

Posted on September 9, 2025 by timlyg

Cloud Google has a good introduction on these differences, I'm pasting it here in case it's lost: To understand cloud and the different models to choose from, it can help to think about it in terms of housing: Choosing which … Continue reading →

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Journal of the Week

Posted on September 9, 2025 by timlyg

9/12/25 Friday 15 tips for distinctive character art (with samples). These are good pointers and it's for character art, not just art in general: 1. Strike the perfect pose: A character’s pose communicates personality and emotion without words; consider interaction with … Continue reading →

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Journal of the Week

Posted on August 25, 2025 by timlyg

8/30/2025 Saturday Today at noon, I attended the Passport to Taiwan cultural festival in Bridgewater Commons. Parking lot 9 right outside Lord & Taylor (which is already shutdown). It's an extension of the NYC version which has been around since … Continue reading →

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Journal of the Week

Posted on August 13, 2025 by timlyg

8/15/2025 Friday Alex posted this on Facebook 呼應老友葛牧之《反智主義》一書：〈《基督教真偽辨》在中國教會的受容〉and I think it's worth checking out (Telling The True Gospel: The Reception of...) as I think I'm behind with names such as 趙天恩. Tong has a little bio on the late 趙天恩, … Continue reading →

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Journal of the Week

Posted on July 28, 2025 by timlyg

8/2/2025 Saturday Just came across the pastor's uncle's sermon in 2020: Pastor_Basile_May_3,2020-_AudioTrimmer.com.mp3 who saw Jesus' strongest anger against Peter by calling him Satan @9:00. I didn't listen the entire thing. Was just trying to hear what our pastor's uncle's sounded … Continue reading →

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GoogleFinance and Embedding Google Sheets in HTML

Posted on July 24, 2025 by timlyg

With GoogleFinance function in GoogleSheets, I get to publish all kinds of data pertaining to stock market prices and currency exchange rates. I just found out this cool feature today. It can be embedded using iframe. A very strait forward … Continue reading →

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Running LLM Locally

Posted on July 22, 2025 by timlyg

In order to learn the AI hype such as ChatGPT today, a start would be to run LLM locally. MIT published this article on doing LLM on a laptop. Someone compares the storage needed to run these with having offline … Continue reading →

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TurboScribe

Posted on July 21, 2025 by timlyg

Loving this TurboScribe.AI tool after paying for the unlimited subscription ($120/year). I can do mass transcription of subtitles in many languages (Chinese, Indonesian, English, etc.) with all the audio files I have. I need to get more of Stephen Tong … Continue reading →

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