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Color All-in-one revisited

29 April 2008 by rich

OK, we had the Ikon guy in to look at printers that are all-in-one. Confirms some of the initial work we did. There are basically four vendors, HP, Canon, Ricoh and Xerox to consider. And there are two major lines, consumer and business oriented. So it seems to be a you get what you pay […]

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WordPress not displaying Chinese correctly

20 April 2008 by rich

I thought it was Scribefire, but it looks like “WordPress”:http://wordpress.org/support/topic/124544 has a configuration problem in displaying Chinese correctly. Apparently, with “Fantastico”:http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended#Special_note_for_Fantastico_Upgrades there are two lines int he wp-config.php file for DB_CHARSET and DB_COLLATE that have to be removed. This seems to apply to WordPress 2.2 but my new WordPress 2.5 had this problem as well, […]

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Paul, Deon & Tong

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A conversation with Devindra on the possibilities of ChatGPT and other Large Language Models for education in India and other Middle and Low-Income Countries. While these large language models today mainly work in the cloud and require high-speed internet connectivity, the promise is that smaller models that are more specialized have already been ported to MacBook Pro M1 and other laptops. And with advances like 4-bit quantization, there is the possibility they can even run on modern smartphones.The experience in China and in India is that parents will save inordinately to give their children a better life than theirs. Both Devindra and I are the beneficiaries of that thinking and we are forever grateful to our parents for their sacrifice. So, this means that there is a possibility that there could be a commercial incentive which is much better than constantly asking for charitable dollars.The new LLMs promise interactivity and individualized instruction that was impossible before. Early demonstrations of learning a foreign language are promising as is the student being able to ask the ”why” of how Python is structured, not just the ”get it done” without understanding that online education often creates.Finally, having an eye toward inclusivity for everyone of any gender, race or social status is something that needs to be baked in. We look forward to helping!

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