Hi. I'm Peter Bouda.

BrickBand - Make Music With Bricks

BrickBand was a follow-up of my Lego Coding idea, using bricks to create patterns for music.

This app is not available anymore, as Windows Phone was shut down.

Poio Predictive Text

Here is my talk “Poio Predictive Text - Grassroots Technology for Langage Diversity” at the Coding For Language Communities Devroom at FOSDEM 2020.

Die Brummbeere in Action

Watch Die Brummbeere in action. More info:

http://brummbeere.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Major progress in AI!

  File "/data/home/pbouda/yolov3/utils/utils.py", line 45, in load_classes
    names = f.read().split('\n')
  File "/data/anaconda/envs/py35/lib/python3.5/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 157 …

Google Übersetz

You are hereby ordered to read:

Teach You Backwards: An In-Depth Study of Googe Translate for 103 Languages by Martin Benjamin

Going to the moon by building towers

This article was published on Hacker News today, a good overview and criticism of the current hype around NLP and speech-to-text in general. I like this comparison:

Stable production-grade NLP models usually are built upon data which is several orders of magnitude larger or the task at hand should be …