Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 25th, 2009
Last week I ordered a Kindle 2 international edition.
Four days ago, when I just received it, the first impression was: it is better than I expected. The display has a high resolution, small font look sharp, and the technical sketches in the “Kindle User’s Guide” look crisp too. The e-paper looks so good under strong [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 11th, 2009
The book in reivew: Michael Freeman: The Photographer’s Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos
To maximize the quality / visual impact of a photograph, solid composition is essential. The figure on the left, “composition triangle”, illustrates my understanding to major aspects of a solid photo composition after reading Michael Freeman’s book “The Photographer’s Eye: [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2009
off the topic: I was sick for about a week during the Christmas holiday. The planned articles was not finished therefore. After the holiday, there has been quite a little to do in my company. Many administrative meetings and I have also been busy coding besides the meetings. All my spare time since the new [...]
Below is my amazon review for the book The Science of Cooking by Dr. Peter Barham.
Title: Scientifically Informative But Far From Complete In the Cooking Aspect
Pros: Scientifically informative and solid. Knowing the chemical and physical facts behind cooking methods applied to certain group of food would definitely help one to produce constantly good cooking [...]
Posted in book, computer science, software engineering on Apr 20th, 2007
My review for the book Expert Systems: Principles and Programming (Fourth Edition) on amazon:
The 4th edition has remarkable changes compared to the 3rd edition, which was written in 1990. Almost all the references are highly up-to-date, new trends in the AI field and new applications leveraging expert systems are introduced all through this book. The [...]
Yesterday in the train to Eindhoven I met a sir who works in the R&D department of a big cosmetics manufacturer. He told me the dramatic price difference between a big brand cream and a cheap brand cream does not mean the effective ingredients are really that different. Say, it might cost 4 euro to [...]
The book: 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline
The history of China is long and it is very difficult to get a clear idea about the logic behind the countless events happened during the last several thousand years in China. I’ve read many books on China’s history, both Chinese ones and [...]
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Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
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