Training a Local GLaDOS TTS Voice
April 30, 2026
I pulled GLaDOS voice lines from the Portal game files, reconciled transcripts against the Portal Wiki, hand-reviewed the messy cases, and trained a local TTS model.
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STT Benchmark: Cohere Transcribe vs Gemma 4
April 03, 2026
Gemma 4 accepts raw audio as multimodal input now, so can it match a dedicated ASR model for transcription? Ran 50 LibriSpeech samples on an RTX 3090. Not even close.
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Toucan Corne Keymap Reminder
January 11, 2026
Working through a keymap to a new Corne layout keyboard. First time using ZMK and doing layouts via firmware files in C
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PhD Advisor Analyzer Agent Experiment
December 25, 2025
An experimental targeted deep research tool I built to help in my own PhD application process. I've rebuilt it to be more robust and open sourced it to share it with the community. A working demo is available to use on my website here.
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Resistance Cascade: An Agent-Based Model of Civil Resistance Dynamics
December 16, 2025
This article looks at the empirical data on protests in authoritarian countries as a function of regime type and information control, then constructs an agent based model to examine how the effect of uncertainty can help explain the differences in protest and resistance movements in these differing regime types.
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ML Prediction of Agent-Based Model Outcomes: Schelling's Segregation Model with 3D Manifold Predictions
May 11, 2025
Thomas Schelling's segregation model demonstrates how individual preferences can lead to complex social patterns. Here I visualize the results of a grid search across two parameters as a 3D manifold with ML outcome predictions.
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