machine translation, semantic analysis and life in China
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 25th, 2008
Writing this on the plane back to Shanghai, after an extended weekend of sorts in Beijing. First things first, I’ve got to give some love to the new airport here. It involved a leap of faith to head to Terminal Three (Shanghai Airlines hasn’t updated its ticketing system to let passengers know… ahem… where exactly […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 17th, 2008
With nothing else newsworthy anywhere else in the country, Xinhua appears to have dispatched its entire workforce to Beijing to crank out articles like this, this, this, this, this, this and this about the 两会. This has made NewsinChinese possibly the most boring site on the Internet. Great reading for those looking to polish […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 13th, 2008
I don’t run many regression analyses these days, but the economist in me can’t help but feel a sense of schadenfreude at the recent economic troubles in the West. I think this is mostly because the problems with subprime loans and the housing market have been fairly obvious since 2005 and there’s no excuse for […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 9th, 2008
Now that the Beijing Olympic Committee has finished cracking down on non-licensed fuwa, maybe they can send a team over to Sohu.com to break some kneecaps. The mega-portal appears to have been caught with its pants down stealing flash games from independent (read: poorer than BOCOG members) games designers:
Here’s the story more-or-less in full from […]