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Spammy advertising best reason for switching to HTTPS

Posted on January 13, 2017 by dsturgeon

While transiting at Schiphol and using the airport wifi, I noticed the sudden appearance of a bunch of adverts on normally advert-free websites. For example: Some investigation indicated that this time the adverts were not injected via Google Analytics, but … Continue reading →

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Classical Chinese Digital Humanities

Posted on April 21, 2016 by dsturgeon

By Donald Sturgeon List of tutorials 1 Getting Started [View online] [Download] 2 Python programming and ctext.org API [View online] [Download] 3 Regular expressions [View online] [Download]

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Classical Chinese DH: Python programming and ctext.org API

Posted on April 21, 2016 by dsturgeon

Classical Chinese DH: Python programming and ctext.org API¶ By Donald Sturgeon [View this notebook online] [Download this notebook] [List of tutorials] Variables¶ Variables are named entities that contain some kind of data that can be changed at a later date. … Continue reading →

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Classical Chinese DH: Getting Started

Posted on April 21, 2016 by dsturgeon

By Donald Sturgeon This is the first in a series of online tutorials introducing basic digital humanities techniques using the Python programming language and the Chinese Text Project API. These tutorials are based in part on material covered in the … Continue reading →

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When n-grams go bad

Posted on April 16, 2015 by dsturgeon

As a followup to Google n-grams and pre-modern Chinese, other features of the Google n-gram viewer may help shed some light on the issues with the pre-1950 data for Chinese. One useful feature is wildcard search, which allows various open-ended … Continue reading →

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