I watched episode 67 of Travel in Chinese. This episode was about taking a trip to see the Terracotta Warriors, a popular tourist destination.
Articles:
There was an interesting article on appleinsider.com and another one in the New York Times. Both were about the new Apple Maps app. The one from appleinsider.com was specifically about why Apple is using Apple Maps now as opposed to Google Maps. Apple wanted the iPhone to have spoken turn-by-turn directions for it's users but Google wanted that technology to be limited to Android products. Because of this, Apple decided to sever ties with Google and started using it's own maps app that was built from scratch.
The New York Times article was about the problems with Apple Maps. The app gives clear, audible turn-by-turn directions with just enough time between steps so one never drives too far. The problem is actually getting to the right destination. Apple Maps doesn't use accurate maps. Some of the data is outdated, some of it is completely wrong, and a lot of it is simply placed in the wrong location. As a result, very few people end up where they need to go while using Apple Maps. What the app needs is maps as accurate as the ones used by Google Maps. If Apple can merge that with the spoken turn-by-turn directions, they will be in much better shape than they currently are.
Philosophy:
I read about contradiction. A contradiction is between two ideas and it occurs when one idea makes the other impossible and vice versa. Reality never contradicts itself but one's observations of reality could contradict each other.
Internships:
I read about Dragon ID on nuance.com. It allows users to use a spoken password and analyzes their voices to check for identity. This is probably more secure than traditional typed passwords but I wonder what would happen if a person could imitate another person. Would they be able to gain access to the device?
To-Do:
- Find classrooms
- Done. My schedule is printed out too.
- Find a youtube video to explain how to change blog layout
- Found one. Will watch it tomorrow.
- Find a youtube video to explain how to upload pdf files
- Still need to find.
- Add quote to header of blog and cite the first one
- Done. Still need to change header layout
- Change the layout of the blog header and title
- Watched a video on how to do that
Some suggestions on Blogspot techniques:
ReplyDelete1. See if you can hook up with people at UCSD (FaceBook, message boards, etc.) who are experienced users and ask them questions.
2. Go to American.com and look up books on Blogspot. Find one that you like and download it onto your Kindle.
Sorry.
DeleteI meant Amazon.com, the book seller. Not "American.com", a typo.
You can download samples of books to preview before buying.
You should also check out UCSD's Japanese martial art classes: Judo, Karate, Kendo, Jujitsu are all excellent and worthy lifelong pursuits. They teach disciplined, reflective and internalized aggression on one hand, and the philosophy of relentless, non-stopped struggle to seek perfection.
ReplyDeleteJust read about the reason why Apple ditched Google Map ....
ReplyDeletehttp://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/26/disagreements-over-turn-by-turn-directions-prompted-apple-to-ditch-google-maps
An article on the problems of Apple's new map app:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/technology/personaltech/apples-new-maps-app-is-upgraded-but-full-of-snags-review.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www
Youtube tutorials on how to create custom header for your blog:
ReplyDeleteFor Blogspot - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z24pXsUM1y4
For Word Press - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DRNIbO2DjE&feature=related
On Dragon ID ....
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure that human voice can be easily imitated flawlessly. May be they have proprietary algorithms that extract certain characteristic features from samples of a human's speech that allowed them to ID a unique person.
You should talk to your phonology professor about that.
But I think the best way to use Dragon ID is for confirm'ing and not ID'ing. In other words, it should not be used as userid+password combination, but use it as additional information of a user. For example, when you forgot a password, you request it from the website. It will then ask you what is your pet's name. Dragon ID can be very successful for that purpose.
But it is an interesting and fruitful area for you to investigate.