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Experiments with voice control on Linux

A few months ago, I was messing around with creating a dictation tool with PureScript that used sherpa-onnx to easily run a variety of the best open source STT models efficiently. One my main aims was to create a practical, if basic, voice input tool for Linux that was packaged for Flatpak and Snapcraft distribution. How nice would it be, I thought, if there was a voice input tool that was…

Reproducing the results of a computational life experiment, Part 1

A while back, I listened to a podcast interview with one of the authors of the paper Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interactions . The paper is about a computational life experiment where you randomly initialize a bunch of Brainfuck programs and have them "interact" with each another repeatedly over time to produce new programs. Interactions work…