Moin! I’m Thilo.
I’m Thilo Michael, a senior data scientist in Berlin. I evaluate language models for the public sector, and before that I did a PhD on simulating phone calls to predict speech quality. This is where I write about that, and about the occasional very silly program. More about me
Recent writing
I built my son a camera
A Leica-inspired toddler camera with a glowing arcade shutter button, an ESP32-S3 and far too much hot glue.
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How I stole a blog 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.
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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™.
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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 intensifies
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Hello World 2.0!
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...
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U.N. 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 :)
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