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The quest to type Chinese on a QWERTY keyboard created autocomplete

Posted on May 27, 2024May 29, 2024 by Rana Shakoor Akbar

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If Huang Zhenyu’s mastery of a complex alphanumeric code weren’t impressive enough, consider the staggering speed of his performance. He transcribed the first 31 Chinese characters of Hu Jintao’s speech in roughly 5 seconds, for an extrapolated speed of 372 Chinese characters per minute. By the close of the grueling 20-minute contest, one extending over […]

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Everything dies, including information | MIT Technology Review

Posted on October 26, 2022 by

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Oct

Quite a bit, according to the experts. For one thing, what we think is permanent isn’t. Digital storage systems can become unreadable in as little as three to five years. Librarians and archivists race to copy things over to newer formats. But entropy is always there, waiting in the wings. “Our professions and our people […]

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Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts

Posted on May 31, 2021 by Muhammad

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May

But there are tens of thousands of Chinese characters, and a 5-by-7 grid was too small to make them legible. Chinese required a grid of 16 by 16 or larger—i.e., at least 32 bytes of memory (256 bits) per character. Were one to imagine a font containing 70,000 low-resolution Chinese characters, the total memory requirement […]

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The quest to type Chinese on a QWERTY keyboard created autocomplete

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Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts

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