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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….
My father, Allyn Hogoboom, was a painter who worked in a variety of mediums including fresco, tempera, and plaster. He studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now the California College of the Arts) in the late1950’s. His passion was for religious topics and iconography, although he did other topics on occasion. The…
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…
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…
My WordPress site had some issues with a corrupt database. I tried to address them, but just starting anew seemed the best approach.