Thilo Michael, senior data scientist in Berlin. Writing on conversational AI, speech quality, evaluating language models, and the occasional very silly program.https://thil.ooo/https://thil.ooo/blog/potatocam/https://thil.ooo/blog/potatocam/A Leica-inspired toddler camera with a glowing arcade shutter button, an ESP32-S3 and far too much hot glue.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://thil.ooo/blog/stealing-a-design/https://thil.ooo/blog/stealing-a-design/I went looking for a terminal color scheme and came back with a whole blog design. Here's what I took from hamvocke.com and how the headline works.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://thil.ooo/blog/a-deep-dive-into-rasa/https://thil.ooo/blog/a-deep-dive-into-rasa/With the rise of personal assistants like Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana, Alexa and how they're all called, there seems to be a great interest in chat bots, which are basically small text-based Alexas! So - exactly like 20 years ago - many companies want cool chat-bot interfaces for Facebook, WhatsApp or simply their website. That's where rasa comes into play. rasa is a startup that provides a framework for building bots utilizing the hottest and newest approaches, including Machine Learning™.Wed, 25 Apr 2018 15:15:00 GMThttps://thil.ooo/blog/astrologysort/https://thil.ooo/blog/astrologysort/Some days ago I was bored and searched the internet for something to do. Something productive. Naturally, I went straight to the okayest subreddit I know (/r/shittyprogramming) and searched for "idea" to get the hottest news on what one might productively do. And you will never guess what I've found... clickbaiting intensifiesTue, 26 Sep 2017 12:50:00 GMThttps://thil.ooo/blog/hello-world-20/https://thil.ooo/blog/hello-world-20/So this blog did not receive any love from me for quite some time. That's why I decided to revamp the whole thing and now it looks completely the same! Want to read me ramble about that topic for some paragraphs? Then read on...Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:53:00 GMThttps://thil.ooo/blog/un-interstellar-was-her/https://thil.ooo/blog/un-interstellar-was-her/So I've seen the new Christopher Nolan movie Interstellar yesterday! I had very mixed feelings about it and I will definitely see it again soon. The movie turned out pretty different that I had imagined and that threw me a bit off. This blog post however is not about the movie directly but about the music in it. So don't worry: no spoilers :)Sun, 09 Nov 2014 21:57:36 GMThttps://thil.ooo/blog/compression-distance/https://thil.ooo/blog/compression-distance/So I've recently looked into compression based distances as part of research for a masters course at the TU Berlin. What I found was a really interesting way of measuring distances between two textures (i.e. images).Sun, 19 Oct 2014 00:36:13 GMThttps://thil.ooo/blog/my-octopress-blog/https://thil.ooo/blog/my-octopress-blog/UPDATE: My blog now runs on pelican. Ignore this post. Really. So I have a new website/blog. It is made with the octopress blogging framework. Octopress is rather different from all the content management systems and blogs I've seen before. Since version 2.0 it is based on jekyll and thus has a completetly different approach on content management and creation. It uses rake tasks to accomplish most of the work. Because octopress is a framework, the comfort for creating and managing content are rather sparse, but then again it is really powerfull if you know what you're doing.Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:36:44 GMT