Tag: Help

Programming, Tips

USACO Tips and Suggestions

So you want to do USACO? Make sure you actually like it and aren’t doing it because you want it on your college resume! (See previous article) I’m going to assume that you understand USACO well enough and competed in some competitions/looked at some problems already. But here are my suggestions

Thoughts

Nervious pianoist?

When I play piano in front of people, it always makes me nervous, and I almost always mess up. Back when I was younger, I was able to play pieces without making a single mistake, but when I went into middle school, I could never play a perfect piece in

Events, Programs

Tesseract

So that past few days, I’ve got interested in character recognition. After searching, the best open-source program is Tesseract, which scored in the top 3 OCR engines in 1995. On the Tesseract homepage, there are downloads for it, and it comes in many different languages. If the text was clear, the