Go has some tricks up its logging sleeve

The Go programming language has some subtle capabilities that make it possible to take logging, and therefore tracing and debugging, further than most other languages.

I am not one of the good ones.

Trans acceptance has a nasty habit of being conditional. Even though I check most of the 'reasonable trans person' boxes, you should not assume that my dedication to my rights and those of my community is anything less than absolute.

Euravox is not an AI-first company.

In a rush toward AI-in-everything, I have taken the decision to go a different route with Euravox. This is why.

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.

Trans Masc Voice Training Tool

I'm releasing a modified version of the Pd-based voice training tool intended for use in voice training for trans masc people.

So it's going to be about appearance?

The UK EHRC's guidance has leaked. Their recommendation is that access to gendered spaces should be based on appearance. Yes, it's that stupid.

k-Hot Holographic Encoding

Categorical encodings can be tricky when you have a large number of possible categories but need to compress this into a small vector without significant loss.

So what happens now?

Now that I'm a free agent, so-to-speak, I'm announcing my new startup: Euravox.

Today is my last day at Google

After just shy of 10 years, I'm leaving Google and taking a leap of faith.