28th December 2022
I’m looking at AI/ML-powered coding assistants (such as mutable.ai, github’s CoPilot, tabnine, and even Alibaba AI assistant – but there everything was in Chinese so I didn’t proceed at all with it), and found – with sadness – that Kite, one of the longer-existing solutions (since 2014!) has gone out of business…
Here is Kite’s farewell for you to read.
Kite did open-source many parts of their technology/software stack, though I didn’t check how comprehensive those parts are, and if that is anywhere near enough to fork/continue their work.
I wonder if there already exists an open-source project focusing on ML-based code completion for e.g. Python – let me know in the comments if you know one!
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9th May 2010
Just found a really nice, “almost interactive” TED talk about digital/real-world interfaces. The ideas aren’t new – they have been around for quite a while, as exemplified both by Sci-Fi movies and several digital implant enthusiasts – but this time it comes with a seemingly-tested implementation, which is – WOW! – both cheap and working. Moreover, here ideas are taken to a level of example applications with functional prototypes – which gives hope to have at least some of those market-ready within 5-10 years 
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5th November 2009
ocrodjvu = OCRopus (tesseract) + DJVU
It is a small command-line tool to easily convert your image-only DJVU files into image+text DJVU files. In Debian testing, there are language packages for (in no specific order) German, English, French, Spanish, Vietnamese, Brasilian Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian. The original tesseract-ocr software includes training data & code, so it should be (at least in theory) easy to add more recognition languages.
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