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Optical Character Recognition on Hiragana

This is a project report from course “Neural Networks”. Authors: Shan Wu, Joonas Lõmps Optical character recognition (OCR) is the conversion of images of typed, handwritten, or printed text into machine-encoded text. Automating the digitalization of handwritten characters offers a lot of advantages when it comes to processing large amounts of papers, documents, and transforming or […]

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Deploying YOLOv3 on Ubuntu Linux

During this post, I will discuss the experience of deploying and testing the YOLOv3 object detection neural network. YOLO[1] (You Only Look Once) is a state-of-the-art, well-known object detection neural network in the field of computer vision. The project originated in 2016, and several changes have been made on the old one that leads to […]

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Use V2Ray Reverse Proxy to Access Your Home Computer

In the last post, we set up the x11vnc server on our home computer. We managed to access the desktop remotely, but the connection is still limited in local LAN. In order to access my home computer from the Internet outside, I need a public IP for my PC which is not feasible for me. […]

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Setup X11VNC on Ubuntu 19.10

One of my needs is to access my desktop remotely from my office. There are many existing solutions (Screen Connect, RealVNC)that provide remote controlling property and their setups are as simple as installing apps. However, you usually need to pay for the services to use them. I would like to set up a remote desktop […]

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Installing GoldenDict on Ubuntu 19.10

Sometimes we need to look up the definitions of words when unfamiliar words appear. GoldenDict is a free and ad-free dictionary software that supports multiple platforms including Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Moreover, it has other advantages listed below: supports multiple dictionary formats supports searching in Wikipedia and Online translation supports words lookup with text selection […]

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Installing OpenCV 4.2.0 With CUDA on Ubuntu 19.10

In this post, we’ll go through the process of installing OpenCV library 4.2.0 with the contrib package and the CUDA enabled on the latest Ubuntu desktop 19.10. The desktop setup is i9 9900KS and Nvidia 1080 Ti. OpenCV (Open source computer vision) is a famous and useful library in computer vision programming tasks. It provides […]

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V2Ray Setup with WebSocket, TLS using Apache

In this post, I will introduce my method to set up a V2Ray service using WebSocket, TLS, and apache. This technique will hide your network traffic just like any other normal https traffic. It will not affect your existing sites on Apache if you configure it right. For further details of this tool, you can […]

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Run Python Script as System Service in Debian

Recently, I started a Python project that performs some web crawling stuff and presents information via Telegram bot. The project is partially working, hence, I want to make it run on my VPS as a background service. In this post, I will share my configuration to run the Python script using the Linux service manager. […]

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Reverse Engineering — Decompiling APK Packages

Once sometimes we want to know the information inside an apk (Android application package) file. Apk files are Android Package files that are saved in zip format. But when we unzip the file, we can’t see the details of xml files and its resources (shows garbled content). Hence, we need some tools to help us […]

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Use BBR to Improve the Connection With VPS

BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time) is a cutting-edge new congestion control algorithm, which is developed by Google. It helps your VPS to achieve higher bandwidths and lower latencies for internet traffic. BBR allows the 500,000 WordPress sites on our digital experience platform to load at lightning speed. According to Google’s tests, BBR’s throughput […]